Archive for the 'Cool People' Category

12
Apr

The Difference Between Twitter & Facebook - For Your Relatives

My sister-in-law is visiting from Vancouver and asked me to explain the difference between Twitter and Facebook.

As I tried to explain what I saw as the difference, I found I was delving way too deep into webcentric language and was absolutely failing in helping her (a very mainstream user of Facebook). Then I turned to Twitter.

I posted the following update: “I’m trying to explain the difference between Twitter and Facebook to my sister-in-law. What’s the easiest, simplest way to do that?” around an hour ago and have since gotten a bunch of good responses.

Below are are a bunch of good ones. I’ll update as I get more.

@techdiva66 twitter is short, character-limited updates & facebook gives you more options for communicating as well as games & apps

@billiegirltoo twitter is up to the second raw thought. facebook allows editing. twitter has a personal feeling

@jpurnell twitter is lower-stakes status updates

@brew7vwp on twitter you talk to strangers you like, on facebook you talk to friends you barely remember

@victordlt Twitter is Facebook in KISS mode (Keep it Simple Stupid). More Simple and Faster.

@calindrome Twitter is a cocktail party; Facebook is recess.

@Goose Facebook is Twitter for people with Internet agoraphobia.

@JD_Southard Facebook is so 2008. Twitter is a social networking experiment in real time connecting people thru a limited # of characters

@ahachmi twitter is where you can vent your mood, sure fbook does the same, but in Twitter it is nothing but the venting of thoughts.

@MyNameisRazzle Facebook Status without the Facebook.

@victordlt Twitter is Facebook with about 10,000 less settings.

@tilga “its like facebook but w/o all the apps. just the status updates” is what i say… GL.

@craiggav Twitter is Facebook without any of the annoying quizzes.

@Adamw13 twitter is only status messages none of the superflous stuff

@ThatsTwit twitter is up to the second raw thought. facebook allows editing. twitter has a personal feeling http://twurl.nl/egr0mw

@bderico Facebook is more about you than it is about what you are doing. Twitter’s updates are more frequent and carry a bit more.

@thawrite1 its facebook with just the status msgs

08
May

Yes We Shall - My Latest Favorite Thing We Made on AOTS

Sometimes we make some okay TV stuff. Every once in a while we go big. I loved this.

Big thanks to Mike Shaw & Jonathan Mann, both of whom just killed this.

12
Mar

Hulu Launch + Embeddable Lebowski!!!

Hulu launched and it’s pretty cool. Plus, they’ve got The Big Lebowski embeddable. As seen below.

12
Jan

Penn Jilette - The Next Ze Frank

This is going to be huge. Penn Jilette nails the vlog form as well as anyone.

It’s basically like Penn & Teller’s Bullshit in tiny, teeny little bite-size form.