Have you ever wondered what motivates a person to click on the “Follow” button on your Twitter profile?  Some are genuinely interested in your tweets/updates. Others want to expand their social reach and a few may follow you for a free “follow-back.” A simple way to express this can be:

Originally posted 2009-09-29 14:31:47.

Mashable has a good piece on the Social Media Tech bubble. Do you think companies like Facebook, Twitter and Groupon have over inflated evaluations, with 30-50x their annual earnings?

I did a bit of my own number crunching by comparing two sets of public traded companies (traditional and web focused) alongside social media.

Originally posted 2011-05-30 00:01:17.

Google announced its rival to Facebook’s Like with it’s very own +1 button. The idea isn’t anything new, it works very well for Facebook. But whenever Google ventures into the social space, I get nervous. Google has had a tough social ride from Orkut to Wave to Buzz, etc.