I occasionally wind down on my PlayStation 3 with Zen Pinball, a fantastic video pinball game.  One of the interesting features that Zen Pinball has is an intelligent leaderboard, which I think has interesting tactical value in many other settings.
Here’s a quick quote from Ryan Olson who was also impressed by the leaderboard:
“What makes Zen [...]

Both of our sites are suffering from 400-type status returns from the Twitter API.  That means we are exceeding our 20,000 requests per hour limit.  Sadly, there’s not much to be done about this… they both are analytically heavy, requiring lots of calls.  As these sites becom popular, they are maxing out Twitter’s API maximum [...]

In the wake of a visit by Chris Barger, General Motor’s chief social media guru, my wife Rebecca (who teaches design and public relations) and I were chatting about one of his comments and came up with this gem, which while it doesn’t resemble Chris’ remarks I think sums up his message on consultants selling [...]

This morning, I gave a presentation that was a retrospective on the Twinfluence application I unveiled at last year’s Barcamp Tampa Bay, and unveiled my latest project: VidSquid.  I talked about how to leverage APIs to build social media applications - specifically, strategy for leveraging these applications to build a social media community.
In short, VidSquid [...]

On September 14, 2009 I presented on the topic “Social Media: Strategy for Local Governance”.  Due to many requests, I’m posting the presentation here.  Much of the context will be lost due to the fact that I provide most of the context in my presentations verbally; but hopefully it will be useful to you.

You’ve heard the term “scalability”. Scalability refers to the capacity of a site or service to grow exponentially. Before this term became popular in tech circles, however, it was documented in social network research.
Drs. Duncan Watts and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi literally wrote the book on the subject of the dynamics of scalability (Dr. Barabasi [...]

Well, godaddy grid is continuing to give timeout issues. Rather than sweat out a solution for this, I have established a handshake partnership with a fellow techie to bring twinfluence to its next incarnation - twinfluence 2.0. It should have a much sharper user interface, a simpler toolset, and offer a whole new [...]

My presentation on “Social Media: Strategy and Intel” that I presented at a panel at this year’s Internet and Technology Summit in Tampa is available for download below.  Twitter comments on the event were tracked under the hashtag #internetsummit.  Thanks to David Glass for organizing such a successful and interesting event, and Bernie Borges for [...]

I recently looked at my access logs, and found that visitors are down by 60% for July… and checking twinfluence.com, I see most profile requests are timing out.  I haven’t changed anything lately, and *sometimes* the profile requests work, so I believe it’s hosting issues again.  I get a trouble ticket in to the host [...]

This weekend, I had to write an application to download some album sets from Flickr.  A friend sent me a guest pass for a couple of his albums, but none of the downloaders I found could handle guest passes or redirects.   Since it works pretty well, I thought I’d package it up and make [...]