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Pebble
It took me a little while to write this post on Pebble. Pebble was a start-up that looked to build a more civil microblogging platform than Twitter. Unfortunately it closed on November 1, 2023. It supported 280 character posts, replies and messages. The staff validated prominent users such as journalist accounts. The service had its…
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Star Wars radio dramas + more stuff
Star Wars radio dramas By the 1980s, radio dramas were in decline. This is in stark contrast to the first half of the century when famous literary and comic book characters had their own shows which covered everything from science fiction and fantasy to crime and horror. Famous names like Sherlock Holmes, Count Dracula, Batman,…
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A Twitter experiment on fake followers
In 2013, I worked with a number of companies and executives that has used services to inflate their Sina Weibo accounts standing with fake followers. (In case you haven’t heard about it, Sina Weibo is a Chinese micro-blogging service). Often this was seen as a cheap way of getting an ego-boosting metric on their account…
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App constellation
Fred Wilson talked about the concept of the app constellation that he distilled down to: mobile apps that share a single login and have app to app linking built in He also added the proviso that ignored gaming apps, which generally purely use integration for identity and payment. As Wilson points out this level of…
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Sina Weibo microblogging service
China has its own unique ecosystem of web properties and Sina Weibo is the latest of them. It has a passionate blogging culture where some blogs by celebrities, experts and populist pundits can attract an audience of millions. Sina.com is a portal and blogging platform. They also have the most popular micro-blogging service. I thought…