The sharing mechanism is very accessible, Circles offer welcome segmentation of your social graph, and most importantly, it’s fun to use. will continue to “talk” with people through social networks and Facebook has some unique capabilities that I will take advantage of. Lastly a word about Circles. MORE >>

Almost every app category has a dominate app – social fb , weather  weather.com , etc. Not testing out other a  networks, started with admob and didn’t change it. Passed location to ad networks and saw more effective ad rev, but users were pissed as to why location was needed to search recipes. Mobile ad network. MORE >>

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analyticisms : This is a must-read article about Facebook and social commerce and the reasons behind the failure of many Facebook storefronts. Social media will be key in shaping the brand experience, but will do so in conjunction with all the other channels and not as a channel in its own right. MORE >>

Since then I’ve been systematically modifying my social networking behavior and cleaning up my various social graphs. made two major changes to the way I use various social networks. As a result, I find email manageable and a powerful / simple comm channel for me. For example, consider Facebook. MORE >>