Tag Archives: technorati

Drinking from the Fire Hose of Information (and the Death of RSS)

Posted 08 November 2011 | By | Categories: Research, Social Media, Strategy | No Comments

Psst… I have a confession to make. I do not  “subscribe” to any blogs. Nor have I used an RSS reader for well over a year. Shocked? Don’t be, because I still get my daily fill of timely news, information, and gossip. Only now, I rely exclusively on my “social lens” – the filtered/curated content [...]

A “Real-Time” Look at Social Web Growth

Posted 09 April 2010 | By | Categories: Industry News, Research, Social Media | 1,264 Comments

I recently came across a pretty nifty widget that illustrates the exponential growth of the “social web”. Similar to the famed National Debt Clock, although the chart doesn’t pull in “real-time” data, the information it dynamically presents is based on a number of key social web data points from a number of sources, i.e.: 20 [...]