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Long-term goals may mean short-term costs

“If I had asked my customers what they wanted,” the great car making pioneer Henry Ford once said, “they would have said a faster horse.” Kevin Gamble points to Twitter’s recent decision to cut outgoing SMS for UK clients: On Wednesday, we announced that Twitter has suspended outgoing SMS to our UK number. The blue in the chart […]

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Social Media Technology Weblogging

Creating social networks few want

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There has been considerable discussion this week on Techmeme about weblogging tool as social networking platform, based on Six Apart’s release of Movable Type Pro 4.2. The announcement was still wet from its birth when the WordPress folks started touting BuddyPress, a variation of social networking based on WordPress. Among the […]

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Critters

No squid, Bigfoot!

No Squid Friday this week, as I’m bringing you all the latest on Bigfoot. Or I should say, the press conference held by the slickest Georgians to ever hit California. I wasn’t going to point you to one of the *techs covering the story for more detail, as they are little more than cryptozoologists-come-lately. I’ll […]

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RDF Social Media Technology Weblogging

Creating social networks few want

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There has been considerable discussion this week on Techmeme about weblogging tool as social networking platform, based on Six Apart’s release of Movable Type Pro 4.2. The announcement was still wet from its birth when the WordPress folks started touting BuddyPress, a variation of social networking based on WordPress. Among the […]

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Critters

Tiger cubs

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Earlier this week I made a mid-day visit to the zoo to see our five newest St. Louis citizens: the five new Amur (Siberian) tiger cubs. They’re only allowed out a couple of hours a day, but in that time they manage to cover ever inch of their not small […]