Pear Analytics just published a whitepaper stating that 40% of tweets are “pointless babble”. This research has been captured by the mainstream media, as well as many blogs.
The main conclusion I took from this research is that I won’t be hiring Pear Analytics anytime soon. The research method is so poor that any conclusions are [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2009’
Why Twitter is not 40% “pointless babble”
Last.fm, intrusive advertising, and good feedback
I love last.fm. Normally it looks like this:
Sometimes, they brand whole pages with big music events like Lollapalooza:
I’m OK with this. It’s very much in the background, I can engage with it if I want, or I can ignore it. It doesn’t take away from my core experience at last.fm - listening to music and [...]
Personal Analytics and the social web ’signal vs. noise’ problem
Last year, my colleague Karen Groenink and I were doing some work around social software and put together a theory we called ‘Personal Analytics’.
The problem we had observed was that in the most popular social software sites, there were very few feedback loops for the people publishing content. On top of that, these sites were [...]