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Some thoughts on Google+

July 10, 2011

Like every early adopters, I’ve been play­ing with Google+ and have a few thoughts about it.

Five social media presence strategies

May 3, 2011

Five ways in which peo­ple and com­pa­nies man­age their social media presence.

On the road again

January 30, 2008

Six weeks ago, it was with great joy and hopes that I joined GroupM, leav­ing behind the safety of a big bank for the more tumul­tuous waters of media and adver­tis­ing. At the time, how­ever, I did not expect things to turn as they just did: I’ve been laid off as I was told that a strate­gic deci­sion was made […]

Personal Relationship Manager

December 10, 2007

I am a tad obses­sive about my address book. While there are sev­eral thou­sand peo­ple in it, I tend to believe that I need to make sure that they stay cur­rent and I look to my address book as the cen­ter of my social net­work. but it ought to work more like a per­sonal rela­tion­ship man­ager. I was recently describing […]

Running the Numbers on Second Life

January 5, 2007

There’s been dis­cus­sion lately about Sec­ond Life and how its reported num­bers seem to be off. Clay Shirky, on Val­ley­wag, has been decon­struct­ing the num­bers claim­ing that the emperor wore no clothes. The funny thing is that this was coin­cid­ing with some research I’ve been doing to bet­ter under­stand whether Sec­ondLife is a flash in the […]

2007 Predictions

January 1, 2007

This year marks the 10th anniver­sary edi­tion of the TNL.net pre­dic­tions for the year ahead. In past years, I’ve been bat­ting above 50 per­cent in terms of pre­dic­tions, except when it comes to nam­ing what will hap­pen with spe­cific com­pa­nies. The trends are gen­er­ally cor­rect (or in some case, early) and I always look at this […]

5 opportunities around social networks

June 30, 2006

In pre­vi­ous entries, I looked at the ben­e­fits and issues with social net­works. As they move for­ward, here’s a list of oppor­tu­ni­ties relat­ing to social net­works.  5. Data Mining/Research A main attribute of social net­works is how much data peo­ple pro­vide to them. On top of it, this data and the inter­ac­tion of users on those networks. […]

5 reasons why social networks can succeed

June 22, 2006

After explor­ing why social net­works fail, I also have to con­sider why peo­ple are still join­ing them, in spite of their fail­ures. So, going along the same approach, here I am with 5 rea­sons why social net­works can suc­ceed: 5. Viral Nature They key to social net­works quickly mov­ing up in size is their viral nature. Because people […]

5 reasons why social networks fail

June 15, 2006

I was recently invited by Jason Cala­ca­nis to A Small World, the über-exclusive social net­work (don’t ask for invi­ta­tions, it’s a priv­i­lege I haven’t been granted since I’m a new­comer there). This has prompted me to think about a num­ber of issues relat­ing to social net­works in gen­eral. In this entry, I will try to look at why social net­works fail. […]

2006 Predictions

December 28, 2005

Since 1997, It’s been a long run­ning game here at TNL.net cen­tral to make wild pre­dic­tions about the upcom­ing year that have turned out to be only some­what off (and, as always, I promise to revisit them around the end of next year to assess how far off base I was) so here goes this year’s edi­tion. Broadband […]