Tag: facebook

  • How true is The Social Network? Entirely and not at all

    The new movie The Social Network directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin purports to tell the story of Facebook’s founding. Like viewers of all major motion pics based upon true events, the audience is left wondering just how many of the events depicted in The Social Network really happened. How accurate is…

  • Facebook isn’t a web site (or a spaceship), it’s a time machine

    I’ve been thinking a lot about Facebook lately. A couple of months ago, maybe around the time Barrack Obama got the Democratic presidential nomination in Denver, a funny thing started happening with my 50 or so “friends” on Facebook. Since I joined earlier in ’08, there’s been an awful lot of dead air — most…

  • Twitter continues integration of everything theme

    I was lucky enough to sit in on a blogging seminar this week given by the inestimable Jeff Javis, who’s got a million brilliant things to say about media, blogging and the Internet generally (though his Hillary flogging is getting a little tiresome). He’s quite high on Twitter, so I decided it was time to…

  • Yelping for fun and profit – well, fun anyway

    True to my astrological sign, Taurus, I’m always on the look out for some new, fancy-shmancy restaurant or coffee shop or paper store or whatever. As such, I’m starting to get more and more into the local review site Yelp.com. I’m adding my Yelp profile page to my links list here and dropping the Facebook…