The parody amongst technology companies continues to make everyone look like everyone else. Brands persist, but services and products seem to blend into each other. Everyone is starting to offer what everyone else has. This comic from JoyofTech puts it all into perspective for us. Who is going to be in social? Who will be a player in search. This guy wants to be like that guy, but this other guy is already looking like something else. It’s a mess. As humorous as it all seems, it’s starting to become a reality. …

“Do no evil.” That was the now famous philosophy that Google portrayed to the world, claiming that a business doesn’t need to be evil to be effective and make money. It sounds great, really. But we are left wondering what Facebook’s motto would look like: “What they don’t know won’t hurt them”? We regularly accept the fact that businesses have one goal: make money. If they are not making money, then they can’t survive. That’s a given. So we typically expect to be bombarded with advertising (granted, Facebook’s advertising is horrible in more ways than one), affiliate offers, promotional material,…

My best friend asked me an unexpected question last week: “What is Twitter? What’s the point?” And I, the genius that I am, immediately thought I’d be able to answer that question in a heartbeat, but after around 15 seconds of thinking about it and not being able to come up with a clear-cut answer, I realized something quite important about Twitter’s future. Anyways. I eventually told my friend that Twitter is somewhat like Facebook. I told him that it was a place to share things that interest you while keeping people updated about your life. But it was all met with the same response I had been hearing…