The buzz, and confusion, around the Twitter-iOS integration is incredible, especially among the identirati. It’s created some very interesting twitter discussions, and some huge claims about what this means for Twitter, Apple and the social landscape in general. I’ve now seen a number of articles that equated the WWDC announcement as confirming that “Twitter is [...]
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Quick Thoughts on the Twitter-iOS Integration
One of the big announcements at yesterdays WWDC conference was the integration of Twitter into iOS 5 (those screenshots are nice!). Twitter fanatics are going gaga about this, talking about how this is a game-changer and even conjecturing on what the apparent Facebook snub means. However, what I want to know is – what does [...]
Connection Denied: Why the Military should play with Social Media
A few weeks ago, while I was at Catalyst, I read an article about the marines banning the use of social media. The policy on social media usage is far from consistent within our armed forces, as revealed in this Stars and Stripes story that shows just how confused and divided the policy makers are: [...]
Identity Proofing on Twitter – problems and potential
All the web has been abuzz recently about Twitters launch of Verified Accounts (read Mashable’s post about it here). The goal of the program is to be able to show a badge on a Twitter account that communicates to readers the authenticity of the twitter stream. The reason for Twitter doing this is to avoid [...]
The new Identity Equation
A few days ago, I tweeted about this CNET article that talks about the plans that Twitter has to expand their search service into what could be one of the most powerful real-time search engines anywhere. The key to this whole thing is the idea of reputation – that ephemeral quality that will improve the [...]
