One Thing That Has Always Bugged Me About Facebook and Photos

This is pretty simple. Why are my profile pictures separate from my photo albums? Why can’t I just select a photo from one of my albums to be my profile picture? A part of me cringes to say this, but think MySpace style. I can’t imagine a good reason for not doing this.

In fact, their [...]

April 9th, 2008 | Category: Facebook, social media | Comments are closed

I Would Prefer My Centralized Me Reside Here

First, read this TechCrunch article.

I am a fan of multiple online services and the creation of new services. However, I have a bit of an issue with the idea of my profiles and content reside in multiple places in multiple forms. It has always felt like a necessary evil in the field. So, I have [...]

March 31st, 2008 | Category: about me, marketing, social media | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Discovering New Music Part II

Thanks to Last.fm, I bought a few new albums today.

I finally got into Last.fm a few weeks ago and for a while I ignored it. And I’m sure I am still not completely utilizing it. But the similar artists feature has already led me to some new music. The Amazon MP3 link is a great [...]

March 29th, 2008 | Category: music, social media | Comments are closed

Behavioral Economics and Predicting the Future of Social Media

Lately, I have been reading a book on behavioral economics called Predictably Irrational and I have been noticing quite a few articles and blog posts analyzing the future of social media.

Behavioral economics is a bit of a buzz phrase right now but I don’t think that diminishes the strength in the lessons we can learn [...]

March 24th, 2008 | Category: economics, social media | One comment - (Comments are closed)

All Connected

I feel very connected. Now I am on FriendFeed (as liz315) and it is linked to everything else that I am on. I like the simple idea of organization and I am a bit anxious for more. Aggregation is happening and I am not the first person to realize that this is a clearly refreshing [...]

March 18th, 2008 | Category: FriendFeed, social media | Comments are closed

Discovering New Music

I am not the trendiest of people but I do enjoy discovering lesser known, newer music. I used to love to buy CDs, especially at live shows. I like possessing the freedom to listen to music on demand and giving to the artists in return.

When going digital became an option, I did it. But for [...]

March 13th, 2008 | Category: DRM, copyright, music, social media | Comments are closed

Social Networking and Personal Websites

Lately, I have been on a bit of a mission to make my involvement in social networking more complete. (Anyone who actually reads my Blog at this point also notices an increase in recent activity here, too.) I am pretty excited to get all of these networks up to date, considering that I went [...]

March 10th, 2008 | Category: social media, web | Comments are closed