It’s been quite the week in the world of the internet. Twitter has been up and down multiple times every day, newly minted twitter-challenger Plurk had some initial compatibility issues for some Firefox users (myself included), Kwippy beta invites finally started hitting the stream, ping.fm made a very public reentry to the scene and Amazon.com [...]

What a fickle group we new media consumers are. Twitter had been everyone’s new crack for the last year or so, then, twitter stumbles (and no, this has nothing to do with my last column about Twitter’s TOS) and all of a sudden a cry emanates from the throng for an alternative to twitter. Maybe [...]

If you haven’t read Ariel Waldman’s most recent post regarding Twitter, you should. It’s not a prerequisite for reading the rest of this post (as I will sum it up), but the full story is a must read for any of you that truly care about the progression of social media and the roadblocks it [...]