I don’t know what’s taken so long and I don’t know if what socialmedian is planning will even work - but if it does, it could save social media. (More on why social media needs saving in a future post. For now, read my friend Al’s post on the matter).

One of the biggest problems facing social media today is all the noise. Aggregators such as FriendFeed attempt to simplify social media by offering a place where people can review information from....

And why it will stay there.

The simple answer is, network effect. Yes, I am stating the overly obvious answer that Twitter is surviving because of it’s network. But not just any network, the fact that Twitter, like the rest of the Web is a scale-free network, is saving it.

For background on this episode of drama, Marco and Louis have some excelent posts about the most recent Twitter drama.

In the book Linked: the New Science of Networks by...

The sixth annual PRWeek/Manning Selvage & Lee (MS&L) survey by Millward Brown polled 252 U.S. chief marketing officers, VPs of marketing and marketing directors and managers, focused on digital and consumer generated media, marketing ethics and the role of public relations in the marketing mix.    &a...