- Facebook is building out the Collections feature it’s been testing, meaning it’s getting ready to launch it as a fully operational offering in the very near future. I’m interested to see how these progress and get rolled out since they could turn a feature of Facebook that’s more or less geared around sharing/spread (see a photo, like/share a photo) and make it more around direct actions to be taken, ie visiting a product page.
- Tweetbot’s recent decision to charge $20 for its Twitter client is interesting not because it is saying their product is so good it’s worth shelling out cash for but because it’s the company trying to limit the number of people who are using it.
- The potential in a fiction-writing festival happening in real-time on Twitter is all sorts of intriguing.
- We were probably all surprised to read Pew’s findings that young people, those between 16 and 29 specifically, are still going to the library in decent numbers. I’m not, though.
- If you ask me – and I know you did – the significant churn on the list of brands people feel the most loyalty toward says less about the constant rush of technology and more about how more and more people aren’t emotionally connected to the brands they use, something that comes at the same time they’re asked to “connect” and “engage” with them on so many platforms.
- This post at AllThingsD about why a “Want” button for social media likely won’t be a big boon to the retail industry is definitely worth reading.
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