Well my friends, the end is here. I learned many things on this journey and plan to share them over the next few weeks. In particular, I discovered that a couple of weeks of Twitter use can’t make you a social media expert (BTW, it takes at least a couple of years in a busted [...]
As I was reading the latest MIT Tech Review (the one with Leah Culver of Pownce on the cover), it dawned on me that most of my efforts on this adventure will likely be wasted. The cold hard fact is that most of these site have no business models (I know, revenue can be a [...]
As the futility of this exercise begins to set in, I am trying to remember those kids at the Brackett Elementary School and the people who pledged money to my online fundraising campaign.
Here is the latest installment. Please remember these are for entertainment purposes only.
Friendster - Along with LinkedIn, these guys were one of the [...]
OK. I’ve finally broken out of my recent funk thanks to suggestions from a less sinister duck (that lazy slacker Robb Corduck) as well as a bunch of recent donation from some Fg’ers (thanks to Mark, Mags, Suze and JH) and old Experian-QAS colleagues (thanks Jaime and Jane:-). Strangely I haven’t seen any suggestions from [...]
Happy Bastille Day from the land of wet paper bags.
Rather than sit around and wait for recommendations from my loyal readers, I decided to break out the big guns over the weekend. I am proud (yeah, right) of my single session haul of 22 sites. Given my short time window and the repetitive nature of [...]
I am now more than halfway through this adventure and need to break through the 50% milestone. One friend suggested today that the last 50 will be more difficult than the first. I disagree as the recommendations keep pouring in despite the fact that I have no friends (outside of FB, LinkedIn, Twitter and the [...]
…your mother dresses you funny.
That was a common insult when I was about 8 years old. These days I take solace in the fact that I did find a loving wife years ago and my mother doesn’t dress me anymore. The middle part of that statement, however, hits a little closer to home. When I [...]
As I rapidly approach the midpoint of my journey, I am feeling a little like I did this afternoon on my 18 year old mountain bike with squeaky brakes. It seemed like a pretty straightforward trip and before you know it I was huffing and puffing up that last hill to SliceCentral.
It was a weekend [...]
Now that I am one third of the way through my journey, I have shifted gears from a sheer volume-based search to a quest for useful and interesting social platforms. Since we are in the middle of a speculative Web 2.0 bubble, there is a virtually limitless supply of niche social media sites. For those [...]
A couple of big scores over the weekend as I got invitations to the Brightkite “private beta” as well as Jaiku. It seems like some of the sites are using Groucho Mark’s logic (ie “I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members”) to get you to sign up. [...]
My Status from Twitter
