Technological advances radically alter dynamics of social change. The election of President Obama is a watershed moment that represents an evolution over a decade in the making. For the first time, social networks were mobilized on a scale that silenced critics of the technology’s limited utility to society or the “realness” of online social connections. [...]

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Barack Obama ’s successful bid for president is probably just as significant as having our first (at least openly) multi-racial president (remember his mother is white and he only met his father once or twice). He changed the nature of campaigning for good and finally delivered on the promise of information technology driven movements. Just [...]

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Like many books of its kind based on websites, Facebook Marketing spends a lot of time on basic usage with more than ample screenshots. The book is mainly written from the perspective of a person successfully marketing real estate on Facebook. Unfortunately, most of the screenshots are obsolete due to recent interface changes and one [...]

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I haven’t really checked digg out in a really, really long time.  I rarely hang around too long when I do.  I did notice however the lack of tech stories not only on the front page but in the queue.  The decline of tech on Digg started a long time ago when they started alienating [...]

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Now, read this post carefully before you go ballistic over the title alone. To my SU friends, please ignore and move on as it doesn’t concern you nor is it about you. Don’t get me wrong, I still love StumbleUpon. It’s also a boon for smalltime bloggers that holds us through the “dog days” of [...]

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A lot of commentary try to lump Social Media (such as Digg) in the same category as Social Networks (such as FaceBook) but the only thing they have in common is the arbitrary naming. After all, what web service is not social? Social is the very fabric of the internet so there will never be [...]

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Digg’s about to embark on a crazy expansion scheme into product and restaurant reviews. It’s surprising that they would even make this move. They’re basically stating that they have the rating or social ratings game nailed like Google nailed search. I’m not exactly sure how they plan to pull it off but product and restaurant [...]

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In a dramatic turn of events, Kevin Rose quelled the Digg mob by posting the very HD DVD hex code that they sought to suppress and doing an about face from the CEO’s statement. It was a defining moment. A lot of websites talk about being community-powered/centered/driven but there’s always a definite retention of control [...]

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Damn! I never knew it could get this bad. Apparently, Digg’s attempt to censor a popular story on the so-called “forbidden numbers” used to break HD-DVD caused a massive backlash against Digg and now every single frontpage story on Digg is about that very topic. Amazing! I love democracy in action. Spread the key!

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Thanks for the good times. Looks like I got my account deleted by Digg. I’ve been using the Digg all bookmarklet some time after they deleted the top users list. I fully realize that this goes against standards of the community so I’m not surprised that I got my account deleted. Looks like changes went [...]

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