Flow Focused

Flow Focused

Business Agility with Agile and Kanban

Category: Social

  • Understanding Like-gate

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    Malcolm Bastien
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    Understanding Like-gate

  • Social Media Without the Tweets and Check-ins

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    After covering social media for years, it’s kind of surprising to see the most popular social media platforms get to a point where user activity doesn’t matter anymore. On Twitter: Dick Costolo: “The Biggest Misconception About Twitter Is That You Have To Tweet To Use Twitter” On Foursquare: “Crowley compared Foursquare’s trajectory to Twitter. Even…

  • The Social Context

    The Social Context

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    Understand a bit about the Social Context in how the biggest driver is the things people are doing with one another. There’s a whole range of platforms, actors, actions, and motivations that should all be understood. A brand’s story doesn’t exist in isolation but along side millions of other stories people have constructed for themselves.

  • Twitter’s Inevitable Consistency

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    Twitter’s API updates and it’s direction that third party clients need to provide an experience more consistent with Twitter’s was inevitable for an ad supported network. There’s a lot of missed opportunity for Twitter’s advertisers with so many users using 3rd party clients applications who don’t display Twitter’s ad products. Each application styling it’s own…

  • App.net: The Country Club of the Internet? // Digital Local

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    App.net: The Country Club of the Internet? // Digital Local: Granted, it’s not yet clear exactly what App.net’s subscription fee will be. But even a very low fee could prove prohibitive for a large segment of the web. And even if it doesn’t, the appeal of this new network seems limited to a specific demographic,…

  • Daily Photo Logging with Google+

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    Malcolm Bastien
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    Last week Google+ launched a major redesign, unfortunately the Google+ API didn’t change and is still read-only. That means there’s no way for apps like Instagram, Twitter and news readers to publish to Google+. It’s a big obstacle because that means users can only add new items to Google+ by used one of the Google+…