72 Kilowatts Internet Marketing

Over Convergence - The New Time Sink

A quick glance over to my sidebar there and you’ll find that I’ve incorporated Twitter into my blog.  So if Isay anything brainy over there, you’ll see it here, where I say ALL SORTS of brainy things.  It’s going to be a one way path, however.

I don’t think I’m going to try Twitter Feed.  Here’s why

I remember hearing about Twitter for the first time just before Affiliate Summit West 2007 in Las Vegas. Shareasale was going to use it to run some contests, we were all going to use it to plan dinners, drinks, etc.  And for the most part, it went pretty well.  But it was new, and people started using it like instantmessaging, which we already had available to us in may forms.  Since then, it seems to have calmed down.

But now, I can integrate anything I say at Twitter into my blog, into my Facebook, onto my phone, and thanks to TwitterFeed, vice versa.

I think RSS has caused an over convergence of technologies.  Making it easy to port information doesn’t make it desirable to do so in every situation.  I’m sure humanity saw the same issue when paper was invented, then radio, then television, etc.  And I suppose we’ll learn to come down with the RSS rush too, after a while.

But more to the point on Twittergration…  How much do we really want to know about each other?

Tags: affiliate summit, facebook, shareasale, twitter

Cleaning Up Facebook, Personally

Spent part of he morning getting rid of riff raff I had become friends with on Facebook.  Couple of things I’d say about that.

I think the social networks need to implement at LEAST a two tiered system for designating associations between people.  I wouldn’t mind having a friends list, and another list (not sure what you would call it… acquaintances I guess) for moving other folks into that just drive by and try to add you.  Then maybe the acquaintances couldn’t write on your wall, or spam you with group invites, or whatever.

That said, to the folks who did get booted from my friends list this morning, there’s a big difference between being an “internet marketer”, and an internet marketer.  I don’t want to know about your crappy MLM money schemes, or your Super Secret SEO societies.  Move along.

Tags: facebook, innovation