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Who's Qualified to Create Our Social Future?

Does anyone else find it ironic that the people who are creating sites such as Facebook and Twitter, who are shaping so much of our online social experience, are the same people (i.e. computer geeks) who are stereotypically socially inept? Talk about the inmates running the asylum!

Are we being set up for a workable and worthwhile future of social interactions, or are we slowly poisoning our ability to be truly social?

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Fiesta Movement - Will it Catch On?

I was driving along the other day and saw a lime green Ford Fiesta - a car which is not currently available in the US, but which launched recently in Europe. It's combination of good looks, driving fun, and low prices has quickly made it the second-best-selling car there after the Golf.

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Trends in Social Networking Usage

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has release a new survey with some stats on how many people are using Twitter, MySpace, Facebook and so on to give status updates to others, or see what other people are up to.

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Twitter is Not a Conversation Platform

Insightful post from O'Reilly about the strengths and weaknesses of Twitter, which echo very basic thoughts I've had about the service. Mark Drapeau goes into much more depth than I've thought about the topic. He starts out saying:

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