The One Big Thing: Facebook Vanity URLs
The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is Facebook’s new vanity URLs feature. As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Facebook is unveiling its new feature this evening and you’ll need to be at...
View ArticleThe One Big Thing: Facebook Feed Search
I know I already wrote about it this week, but The One Big Thing you really do need to know about this week is Facebook’s forthcoming feature, real-time activity feed search. The feature will allow...
View ArticleThe One Big Thing: The Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced
The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is the role citizen media and the social Web played in reporting the popular revolt over the Iranian election results. I won’t give you a play-by-play...
View ArticleThe One Big Thing: Google Chrome OS
It’d be nice if Google would take a month off and let someone else be the subject of The One Big Thing, but it ain’t gonna start this week. The One Big Thing you need to know this week is that Google...
View ArticleThe One Big Thing: Mobile Social
The One Big Thing I think you need to know this week is that social networks are getting much closer to going mobile. foursquare seems to be taking off and now Google has released an iPhone app for...
View ArticleThe One Big Thing: Facebook Buys FriendFeed
The One Big Thing you need to know about this week, obviously, is Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed. After having a few days to consider the acquisition, here are some thoughts on why I think it’s...
View ArticleThe One Big Thing: FTC Disclosure Rules – What Everyone Should Know About...
The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is that the Federal Trade Commission has updated its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising to bring it up to date...
View ArticleThe One Big Thing: Real-Time Conversational Context In Search – The Twitter...
The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is that Google and Bing have cut deals for access to real-time conversation data from Twitter (in the case of Google) and both Twitter and Facebook...
View ArticleThe One Big Thing: Real-Time Social Search
The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is real-time social search. The two big news stories this week were Google’s roll-out of real-time search and Facebook’s new privacy features. While...
View ArticleThe One Big Thing: Follow The Data
Photo courtesy of theeerin. In this mashed-up and syndicated online world, the The One Big Thing you need to know for preparing for the increasingly local and mobile Web is Follow The Data. Have you...
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