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Five Years, 32k Tweets Later

Don Martelli
Rant

I was killing time in a car dealership today and cruising through my Twitter stream when I came across this tweet from Todd Defren:

Apparently it's my FIVE YEAR Twitterversary. Wow. This thing's been on for 5 years? Can you envision it being around another 5?

Consequently, after the tweet, he wrote this about his twitterversary:

I read it and thought hey, I've been on Twitter nearly as long and I should probably reflect where I was five years ago today as opposed to today. Here are those random thoughts:

Facebook Messages Proves that Social Media is Still About Relationships

Don Martelli
, , Technorati

Yesterday's announcement by Facebook about their new messaging service, dubbed Facebook Messages, proves one thing — that social is still about people. 

Despite all the advancements in technology; the connections between services; the ability to create content on the fly; and, the how easy it is to get the info we, as consumers want, social remains to be centered around people.

Services like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Foursquare, Yelp, etc. connect people with people. Yes, people are connecting because of content, but at the end of the day, it's the relationships that we forge via these channels that really matter. 

Facebook and Google Lead Social Logins

Don Martelli

Google and Facebook are favs of interwebbers to login sociallyEver since Google and Facebook launched services that would allow users to log into other sites with their respective credentials, life has become slightly easier in terms of remember a zillion passwords.

And, in a recent study by OpenID company JanRain, results show that users undoubtedly prefer to use their Google and Facebook logins on websites that offer third party sign-in options.

According to the study, Facebook has significantly out-paced competitors in areas such as media, retail and technology. However, JanRain’s entire client base is roughly 170,000 and among them, it appears that Google is the most popular login service overall, with about 38% of all user authentications.