Using Fast Society

At the DMA this past week in San Francisco, I was finally able to use the Fast Society iPhone app that I installed a few weeks back. Fast Society calls itself an “Instant, private, short-term mobile group chat”.  Since I was traveling with three other people at the conference, I set up an sms network…

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Debate: Create your own social network or leverage existing…

My friend Karna Crawford pointed me to this article talking about the benefits of creating your own social network.  I couldn’t disagree more, and said so with this comment: I very much disagree with this approach.  There are ways of gathering data without having to create a new social network for people to join.  Asking…

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Debate: Twitter is not a social network

I think people have it all wrong about Twitter.  I really don’t think Twitter is any more a social network than email is or text messaging is.  The only difference between Twitter and those tools is that its wide open. I think a social “network” is something you enter into mutually with other people.  It’s…

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