Paul Jacobson

Category: Social Web

  • Legacy4Life: authentic scrapbook blogging success

    Di Heuser is a single mom with 3 beautiful children and my long time friend. She started scrapbooking in late 2007 and shifted to digital scrapbooking around October 2008. She launched her blog, Legacy4Life, on 27 December 2008 and was accepted as a scrapbooking designer by two scrapbooking stores in roughly July 2009. Why am…

  • Twitter is a catastrophic #fail waiting to happen

    The only thing Twitter has been consistent about is its failure to scale and develop a stable platform given its growth and all the hype about the service. How can Twitter not be able to handle search after 3 years in operation and $155 million in funding? Yes Twitter helps people reach out to millions,…

  • Better GReader experience (why Firefox is my fav browser again)

    I have been reading feeds in Google Reader this morning (I prefer Feedly but it wasn’t working this morning for some reason). I use Firefox as my primary browser after being a fairly dedicated Safari user for a while and a momentary Chrome fan. I’m not saying that Safari and Chrome are lousy browsers because…

  • Sorry @Sznq, Twitter is no substitute for a blog

    I just had a brief debate with Suzan Gray which merits a longer response than Twitter can accommodate in 140 characters (and which also demonstrates my point): … to which I replied (somewhat tongue in cheek): … and Suzan retorted: While Twitter is known as a micro-blogging service, it is really more of the following:…

  • MobileMe: to renew or not to renew

    I’ve had a MobileMe account for the last year and a half (pretty much since MobileMe launched as the .Mac replacment) and the time has come to renew it. I was initially going to renew my subscription (€65 or around R730 for the year) and I wonder now if I should. The main appeal MobileMe…

  • The new communication Wave isn't what you think it is

    I haven’t seen this much hype about a Google product since Gmail launched a few years ago. Invitations to use Google Wave have been trickling out to eager users for a couple weeks now and I managed to secure one thanks to Gavin Magid who sent me one of his invites. Like many of you,…

  • Google Reader is becoming the most useful social connector

    I have just returned from a RSS hiatus. The weather was fine and the conversation on Twitter and FriendFeed has been great but I just wasn’t consuming much of the 800-odd feeds I currently subscribe to. So what I did was set up a Google Reader instance using Fluid.app (in other words, I have a…

  • Facebook friends FriendFeed

    By now you have probably heard about Facebook’s FriendFeed acquisition. I first heard about it when TechCrunch published a quick post last night about the acquisition and more news started to appear within the next half hour or so. The short version is that Facebook has paid $50 million in cash and Facebook shares for…