I Start My Day With Mashable

I love Lauren’s articles on Mashable.

Last Thursday, I made my co-worker (who’s about to have baby #3) read her toddlers and their online presence article. It made us both laugh- but we’re still not convinced twitpic-ing the birth is the best idea. 

Lauren’s latest article (linked to this post) about social media becoming more popular than e-mail on mobile devices was a great addition to my (second) cup of coffee this morning.

The stat she mentioned about how mobile users spend 3.1 hours per week on social networks vs. 2.2 hours on e-mail, didn’t necessarily shock me.

I was glad however, to see it published.

So I could re-publish it :-)  

I’m sure this will eventually become huge- but for now, I’m sticking with g-chat.

LOVE this.

1. Social Media is Not Going Away

In the early 1990s, the Internet was the topic of a similar debate in schools. Karl Meinhardt was working as a school computer services manager at the time. “There was this thing called the Internet starting to show up that was getting a lot of hype, and the school administration was adamantly against allowing access,” he says. “The big fear was pornography and predators, some of the same stuff that’s there today. And yet…can you imagine a school not connected to the Internet now?

“…this is bad news for companies that are building their versions of Twitter analytics tools – some that come to mind are Klout, Omniture and Twitalyzer. It is possible to compete with Twitter at their own turf – just check out third-party apps such as TweetDeck — but these companies will now have to try twice as hard to reach customers.”

The fact that I’m setting up my Grandfather’s Facebook account is living proof.