Paul Jacobson

Category: Social Web

  • Twitter is overrated, you should switch to Facebook

    It turns out that, when you dig through the stats, Twitter is grossly overrated as a platform. It is useful, for sure, but the numbers Silicon Alley Insider published about a month ago reveal a very different picture to the one we perhaps have at the moment. These numbers also suggest that you should be…

  • Something for infographic + Evernote geeks

    If you love infographics then you may like my little collection of infographics which I have accumulated over time. If these creative data representations excite you happen to be an Evernote user then take a look at my shared Infographics notebook in Evernote. You can view the notebook on the Web and link it to…

  • Do you Like me?

    Update: I have unpublished my Facebook fan page since Facebook added the subscription option to personal profiles. You can follow me on my Facebook profile going forward. Aki Anastasiou inspired me to finally publish a personal fan page on Facebook as an open interface for people who would like to keep in touch. I tend…

  • This Foursquare checkin suggests I may have a problem

    Not too sure what TPS is though …

  • What's happening on LinkedIn Today?

    No sooner did I publish my post with an interesting observation how the majority of LinkedIn’s users don’t actually use LinkedIn all that much, LinkedIn rolled out a new news product called LinkedIn Today which makes more sense of all the news links people share in LinkedIn updates. This is a pretty interesting move and…

  • Twitter's amorphous value

    Your tweets are of little significance to anyone other than your “closest family and possibly a tiny handful of employees”, according to Howard Rybko, Syncrony’s CEO (Syncrony is a Sandton-based web development company in case you haven’t heard of the company). According to Rybko, speaking to ITWeb and quoted in an article titled “Tweeting is…

  • Mozilla: underestimated and misunderstood

    ReadWriteWeb published a post titled “Mozilla Makes A Better Case for Web Apps in Minutes Than Google Did in Months” which reminds me how Mozilla is probably one of the most underestimated and even misunderstood organisations on the Web today. Mozilla is the organisation behind the second most popular browser on the Web: Firefox. Firefox…

  • No Foursquare mayorship if you checkin through Gowalla

    I love the Gowalla app on my iPhone and prefer it to the Foursquare app. I also love that I can checkin on Foursquare using Gowalla. I noticed that checking in on Foursquare using Gowalla isn’t quite the same as doing it on Foursquare directly. No matter how many times I checkin at a location…