In the last 12 months, Twitter has gone from geek obsession to media obsession. The user-base has diversified from the original gathering of web 2.0 geeks, bloggers, and technology early adopters to include Ashton Kutcher, Shaq, Britney Spears, Oprah, the nice lady four cubicles down from you with 30 cats, and probably your aunt [...]
Recently I’ve read two articles that compared the latest surge of Twitter’s popularity to that experienced by Facebook and Myspace. Neither discussed Twitter’s differences or tried to understand the platform or it’s user community, but instead placed focus on the potential of Twitter to be a fad. So with all the articles and blog posts [...]
In the last 12 months, Twitter has gone from geek obsession to media obsession. The user-base has diversified from the original gathering of web 2.0 geeks, bloggers, and technology early adopters to include Ashton Kutcher, Shaq, Britney Spears, Oprah, the nice lady four cubicles down from you with 30 cats, and probably your aunt [...]
Normally we reserve the blog for positive, thoughtful rhetoric about using Twitter for business. We’ve been excited watching Twitter’s explosive growth over the last year. Recent figures have 12 month growth at over 1000% - which is amazing by anyone’s standards. But with massive adoption comes users that may not be as [...]
So, some of you have noticed that Cherp has been a little quiet to start 2009. It’s true, we’ve been focused on a variety of projects and started down the path of developing our own application. Twitter app development is too crowded today and we’ve decided to get back to our primary focus full-time - [...]
Americans have innovated during each economic downturn in our nation’s history. Some significant companies have spawned from the Great Depression such as Proctor and Gamble and our current movie studio system. (There are plenty of blogs talking about this topic: Fast Company, Business Week, McKinsey.)
What we do here at Cherp is think about Twitter, [...]
Every so often a new technology comes along and fascinates and excites businesses and consumers alike. Previously, e-commerce won our hearts. Then we all fell for search engines, and the world wide web was redefined. Now, that new technology is social networking and it’s an exciting place to be. New technology sprouts each week, creating [...]
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@webdav I’ll be curious to see. One way or [...]