Bluesky emerges as a user-centered alternative to traditional social media platforms like Twitter, offering transparency and control through its open-source algorithms and federated network. Users appreciate its focus on safety and empowerment, enabling them to curate content and manage interactions. As disillusionment with Twitter grows, Bluesky’s model is gaining traction.
Photo Credit darkmatter First off – a big apology to everyone who is subscribed to this blog for the lack of postings in the last number of months. I haven’t stopped blogging, it is just that since I started working for RedMonk, the focus of my writing has changed and it is now more appropriate…
FaceBook opened its APIs for third party developers last year, opened its registration to all and saw a meteoric rise in use. The developers started creating all kinds of applications for FaceBook and the FaceBook Platform was pronounced as the next big thing! And an investment by Microsoft putatively valued the website at $15bn. However,…
While everyone talks about the power of FaceBook as a cool means of getting a message out, you hear very little about the power of Twitter as a communications tool. I inadvertantly compared the two in recent months and found that Twitter was by far the more potent communications tool (in my unscientific test, at…
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When I was in Barcelona for TechEd last year Charles Torre did a video interview with me. We had a wide ranging chat about data centre energy efficiency strategies, blogs/blogging and the Death Star! Charles emailed me last night to let me know that the interview has now been published on Channel 9 (Channel 9…
Do you use Del.icio.us? Do you know what it is? If you don’t know what Del.icio.us is, it is a site where, at its simplest, you can save all your bookmarks. Cool, huh? Never lose your bookmarks when you use another machine again. It goes well beyond simple bookmarking though. For a start, you can…
Spotted this story yesterday on Valleywag – long story->short, guy working as an intern for a US branch of Anglo-Irish Bank, took a couple of day’s leave saying he had to head to New York home suddenly. I just wanted to let you know that I will not be able to come into work tomorrow.…
I see Jaiku were bought by Google yesterday. What is Jaiku? Jaiku is what Twitter would be if it worked reliably and had neat functionality. I’m delighted for them. If you don’t currently have a Jaiku account then you may be out of luck because in the notification email sent out by Jaiku last night…