Category Archives: Hype

The Hypocrisy of Doing Tech Product Reviews

July 18, 2008 – 6:41 pm

If there is one thing that will start off a firestorm in the tech blogosphere faster than you can say oh shit is the mention of a tech blogger doing a product review of just about anything. While most of the time if one provides the usual caveat that the company provided the review [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging, Internet |

The Old Dull Thing Is The New Shiny Thing (or deconstructing the Calacanis email newsletter)

July 13, 2008 – 4:48 pm

Prior to Web 2.0 and the rapid proliferation of things like blogs, social media and social networks the most common way to communicate with people was by using newsletters. While one could manually update static web pages things like newsletters were easily created and could be sent en mass to the people who had signed [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging, Internet, Social Media |

Real World Social Media Slaps Feldman Back To The Bush League

July 8, 2008 – 5:22 pm

Ya gotta love it when a shit storm blows up on the web and it gets no better than when it includes the notables of the tech blogosphere. Such is the case of Loren Feldman and his past coming back to haunt him as he gets yanked from a content distribution deal with Verizon. [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet, Social Media |

APIs – The New Web 2.0 Protocols

July 6, 2008 – 4:34 pm

In the years prior to the whole Web 2.0 and Social Media just about all of the methods of communication had specific protocols that had to be followed regardless of the company or developer wanting to use them. Requests for Comments – otherwise known as RFC’s – mailing lists were the battleground where all [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet, Social Media, Technology |

OMG! Look Out Everyone – It’s A Twitter Clone - OMG!

July 3, 2008 – 2:29 am

For most of this evening I have been watching an amazing event. It is totally fascinating to watch a group of what should be intelligent and well educated folks suddenly become drooling masses of quivering jelly like substance. It was like they had been locked in a room without any way to regenerate their [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Social Media |

Social Media: just another term for Multi-Level Marketing

June 30, 2008 – 4:37 pm

In my youth I had the opportunity at one point to be introduced by friends to the wonderful world of multi-level marketing. I was shown ways to travel that road to riches and all the goodies that came with rolling in the dough. Even I could one day attain the impossible dream of vacationing [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet, Miscellaneous, Social Media |

Search isn’t about buying stuff

June 26, 2008 – 6:58 pm

One of the bastions of the search slash advertising has been this idea that people just have to have advertising displayed to them based on what they are searching for. One of the biggest proponents of this ideal has been Robert Scoble who will often use the example of searching for photographs, cameras or [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Google, Internet |

Can someone squeegee that bubble please

June 25, 2008 – 10:00 pm

I’ve had this line from a post Colin Walker wrote earlier today rolling around in my head all day. In his post where he was talking about social media he mentions Chris Brogan’s earlier Twitter question about what would the early adopters do once the rest of the world “get’s it” with the ‘it’ [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet, Social Media |