Curation is a Means to an End, Not the Objective
Posted on February 14, 2011 by william
Any hype period has its share of buzzwords. Curation is one of those buzzwords today. It’s probably one of the most used, misused and abused words when it comes to discussing the future of news and digital content. The flurry of curation platforms has amplified the attention on the act of curation itself. But curation [...]
The Social Media News Firehose and How Not To Tame It
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I’m surprised that many people believe the only way to get their news now is via social media. There’s this notion that if you use personal readers to surface the most popular stuff, you’re covered. Well, if your job is to be led, you will be led. You will be led where your friends are [...]
The Future of Twitter May Not on the Web
Posted on December 5, 2010 by william
Image via CrunchBase I’m a big fan of Twitter, like millions of users, but I don’t think its current web form is sustainable. Twitter the Company (Twitter Co.) has not innovated fast enough there, and it’s showing. There are two other Twitter use variations that will be more prevalent. In total, I see currently 3 [...]
Curate Your News Streams or Drown in Them
Posted on November 23, 2010 by william
Image by Intersection Consulting via Flickr Getting your news via Twitter streams is very useful, but getting your news via curated streams is even more powerful. We’re all consuming news via our Twitter accounts, in essence following what our followers are following or paying attention to. But if you want to read what everybody else [...]
Feeding vs. Reading: An RSS Saga
Posted on December 25, 2009 by william
The future of RSS is bright despite Twitter’s chipping away at the RSS readers user base.
Twitter the Utility Company & the Public Twitter vs. Private Twitter
Posted on October 5, 2009 by william
Image by Julep67 via Flickr I was shocked to read that Twitter’s architecture is still centralized, after reading TC’s post where they advocate that it should be. I agree that it’s time for Twitter to take a page from Google’s massively decentralized architecture and to start showing us they can scale ad nauseam, just like [...]
Launching Eqentia!
Posted on September 2, 2009 by william
Image by jurvetson via Flickr Today, we have publicly launched (Beta). Although the Eqentia service has been available for a few months as we worked with early customers, we weren’t as public as we wanted to be. Now we are. Richard MacManus has written a launch post about Eqentia in ReadWriteWeb where we are compared [...]
Twitter as an Innovation Engine
Posted on June 4, 2009 by william
Twitter is ushering an unprecedented wave of innovation, not seen since the early days of the Internet.
A New Blog Is Born
Posted on January 27, 2009 by william
A new blog, a new day. After a blog hiatus of 3 years, I’m back on the blogging scene, now as a founder of Eqentia. What will I blog about? Here are some directions and intent for this blog: To keep Eqentia’s customers and partners informed about our development and evolution To communicate my vision [...]
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