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I’m speaking at the Hawaii Social Media Summit on October 19, 2011
I’ll be speaking about social media and business ethics as part of a panel at 3 pm on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at the Hawaii Convention Center. The program for the 2011 Hawaii Social Media Summit is...
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My public Facebook page
I’ve set up a public page for myself on Facebook that will feature my work at Hawaii Pacific University and as an indepedent consultant. My public Facebook page is located here and I also have a short...
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12 seconds of St. Patrick’s Day
It’s so much easier to post and record video to the web these days. I used my iPhone and 12seconds.tv’s app to make a 12-second long video of yesterday’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration in downtown...
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My Twitter poll on favorites
How many favorites have you saved on Twitter in the last 24 hours? TwtPoll.com lets users set up short surveys that can be sent on Twitter, so I thought I’d do a sanity check. I save a lot of favorites...
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A few new features
I’m testing a few new features here on billso.com, as I recover from a brief service outage earlier this week. I’ve added ShareThis to almost every page and post on this site. It’s a drop down menu...
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Manoa Geeks meeting and social networking
Ryan Ozawa, one of our better-known bloggers on Oahu, invited me to this month’s Manoa Geeks meeting, which will be held at the HMSA building in Honolulu tonight. Details are available here. This year...
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Scrabulous access blocked for US and Canadian Facebook users
Rajat and Jayant Aggarwalla have blocked access to their Scrabulous Facebook app for US and Canadian users, according to this NY Times article called Scrabulous Barred to North American Users and...
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A torrent of textbooks
As we approach the start of the academic year, the rising cost of almost everything has created a surge of interest in electronic books, in legal and unlicensed versions. As we’ve discussed in earlier...
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Social networking in IBM’s Beehive
IBM has been using an social network called Beehive to help employees share pictures, videos, links and meet in ad hoc groups. Users can post, share and reuse top 5 lists, which are called Hive5s. The...
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Is email in danger from microblogging?
I’ve claimed for several years now that email is broken. At best, email is the lowest common denominator (LCD) for sending messages to a specific Internet user. Every ISP subscription comes with some...
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Scrabble vs Scrabulous
Electronic Arts is publishing an authorized version of Scrabble for US and Canadian users of Facebook. It will compete head-to-head against the popular Indian knockoff Scrabulous, which has become a...
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The battle against Twitter spam
I’d been offline all weekend, so this morning I decided to check my Twitter page. Twitter is a web site that lets users microblog with 140 character messages typed into the web site or mobile text...
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Virgin Mobile buys Helio
Helio, the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that tried to sell MySpace-branded handsets and service, has been purchased by Virgin Mobile. After EarthLink bailed out, SK Telecom pumped an...
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I’m writing for BrightHub
I started blogging back in 2003, and I learn something new every day about writing, attribution, and basic research when I write a story. When i was in art school, my drawing instructors told us to...
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Two quick questions for 500 people
There’s a site called Ask500people.com that lets users post and answer questions. Last night I asked: How much free space do you have on your main hard drive? How many text messages did you send today?
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LinkedIn’s valuation reaches US$1 billion
LinkedIn, which has become the leading social network for professionals, tripled its size last month. Europe, North America and India are the main sources for new members, and the site is adding 5...
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My social networking activity
I’ve set up a billso.com page that displays my social networking activity from several different web sites. It took a bit of coding, but SimplePie handled the RSS formatting with little effort on my...
View ArticlePlease phrase your LinkedIn question in the form of a question
I enjoy using LinkedIn, especially the Answers section of the web site. Users can post questions there, and get answers from other LinkedIn users who have an informed opinion on the topic. How hard can...
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Outsource your projects online
Need some more time at the office? Perhaps you’ve got a project that needs several hours of tedious work. You could hire an assistant or a temp to come in and handle these tasks, but if that’s not an...
View ArticleIt’s 2008 and email is still broken
I’ve said it before in 2004 and 2006: email is broken. It’s a great rant topic for my 1200th blog post. The credibility of email as a marketing medium was destroyed years ago by UCE (unsolicited...
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