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Braindead TechCast EP 77: Social Media quarterbacks love their cheerleaders
Two days now and still everyone is obsessed with the iPhone – enough already. Both Sean and I take a look at this obsessiveness in tonights show while trying to not lose our cool – too much anyway in Sean’s case.
What amazed us as well that while everyone was expressing their undying love over an updated iPhone there were actually some things happening in the tech world that had absolutely nothing to do with the iPhone and yet the major blogs couldn’t be bother to write about them.
Actually given the current state of the high-jacking of the tech blogosphere by a social media lovefest it’s not all that surprising that real tech news is getting missed.
Posts mention in the show.
- 2TB Hard Drives Crack the $100 Barrier – Gearlog
- Microsoft just gave Google a swift kick in the balls – WinExtra
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blah blah blah blah and still more blah blah
During a day I will end up reading or skimming over 800+ posts just in my RSS reader. That doesn’t take into account any of my Twitter activity or Buzz reading or even email. In my normal work week of Sunday to Saturday this means I have at some point skimmed or read a minimum of 5600 posts of which anywhere from 25 percent t0 40 percent ( a rough estimate given how the feeds are separated in FeedDemon) are social media or social web related.
This amounts to a minimum of 1,400 posts and you know what …. increasingly they are becoming repetitive regurgitation of that same old crap, not to mention boring as fuck.
Blah blah blah – that’s all is seems to be anymore (of course some will say it’s always been this way but I like to give the benefit of the doubt). It might be stupid ass puff pieces that have absolutely nothing to do with social media but because it mentions Twitter it is given 200 words and gets thousands of ReTweets. Or it could be the never ending – and mind numbing – analysis of yet another copy-cat start-up that wouldn’t know an original idea if it jumped up and bit them on the ass.
Google is no Sophia Loren – more like Ugly Betty
There is no getting around it – Google sucks when it comes to the Social Web, or in marketing speak – Social Media.
Unlike the other leaders in the field Google’s efforts have either been complete flops or just disparate efforts scattered around the Web. Even in those efforts that have gained a modicum of success, if it can even be called that, there is always a feeling of blandness, of always just missing the target.
In a way this is understandable. One has to remember that Google was built around the whole concept of the power of the algorithm and built by engineers and developers with an extreme eye to minimalism in everything it did. There is nothing wrong with this approach if all you are going to be is a search engine and ad platform but being social needs more than being able to calculate page load times down to the millisecond, or debating which shade of blue right down the the hex number is better.
Everything Google does is bland, faceless and yes – boring. This is the perfect approach of course for the true geeks and early adopters but the exact opposite of what the masses who are becoming involved in Social Media want, or are expecting.
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