Twitter has produced some great results for the world of bloggers: It's cleared the inter-sphere of those 600-word posts that always only contained 140 characters worth of content.
I agree, Twitter indeed is nothing but a lot of white noise and rarely is there a relevant stuff.A lot of tweets are just random thoughts that are mediocre at best. I myself am guilty of dumping all my blabbers on Twitter....but atleast it helps in clearing my head:)
Since the nonsense has transferred to Twitter, I've also stopped reading much there. There was a time when I found substantial tweets quite frequently but now they're buried under a lot of fluff. When I need real content, I go straight to the blogs.
For users with large numbers of Twitter followers, the service has become irrelevant. Is this the beginning of the end for the short message service we have allegedly loved?
The German organization WWF has released a file format similar to Adobe's PDF that does not allow printing. You can do the same right now with Acrobat's 'no print' option.
Inexpensive metals (nickel and iron) combine to create super-fast memory devices that promise faster boot times and lower power consumption. Old muscle-cars in your smartphone.
Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.
Based on reactions in Nicole's Newsfeed, everyone hates this version of Facebook. This should matter to Facebook now that there's a real competitor on the scene named Google+.
Allowing users to share music and video on Facebook might sound like good news, but is this part of a coherent strategy, or is Facebook just stumbling from idea to idea?
While the publishing industry reels from the pressure of digital books and freely available content on the Web, one branch of the industry, the publishers of academic books and journals, remains above the fray. How is this possible and how long will it last?
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