Analysis The Inner Circles of 10 Geek Heroes on Twitter Hotshots, rock stars, geek heroes - many of us follow a lot of the same people online. But who do they pay the most attention to themselves? The influencers of influencers are of interest for a lot of different reasons, most appropriately because finding them is a good way to dive deeper into niche topics. Twitter exposes conversations that… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
NYT Your Government Needs You: Re-design Congress Online Yesterday on the O'Reilly Radar blog, House Representative Mike Honda (D-San Jose), called out for suggestions and guidance for ways to better utilize technology to get the public involved with U.S. government. His post, entitled Request for ideas: Crowdsourcing the Evolution of Congressional Websites opened with this plea: Phil Glockner View comments
Browsers StatCounter: IE8 is Off to a Slow Start Yesterday, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 finally came out of beta, but according to the latest data from StatCounter's GlobalStats, users are not exactly in a rush to update their browsers to IE8 just yet. Even though IE8 had been in public beta testing for a year, its market share only rose from 1.39% on its launch day to 1.56% today. Frederic Lardinois View comments
Facebook Can Digg Keep Up With Facebook? Looking at a regular graph of traffic data from Digg and Facebook, it would be easy to assume that Digg is lagging far behind Facebook's staggering growth. However, Compete just produced a very different graph that compares traffic at Digg and Facebook since their respective launches, and according to this data, Digg is actually doing better than… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
Product Reviews What Does that Hashtag Mean? New Service Tells You So you've joined Twitter and have finally started to get the hang of things. You know to put an "@" sign in front of usernames for public replies and you know how to send private messages with a "d." You filled out your profile and have mastered the art of TinyURLs. You even found some interesting people to follow and have started conversations… Social Sarah Perez View comments