I think social networks and other “social” services need to move away from the word “like” for sharing information. Often the word is used to indicate popularity of a certain thing… RSS feed stories in Google Reader, news stream items in Facebook.
However, the meaning behind “like” and the intention of sharing an item or showing [...]

A long while ago, I noticed that Mashable seemed to have faster growth than TechCrunch. Here’s what the latest Compete traffic comparison graph looks like:

It seems like Mashable is actually doing better than TechCrunch now in terms of traffic. Looking at the two sites and what they do, I would guess the difference is due [...]

Twitter changed how links work recently, so now when you click a link the first thing that actually loads is something like:
http://twitter.com/link_click_count?url=STUFF
I don’t like it.
First off, it’s messier. Instead of clicking through normal links now we’re getting redirected for internal links. That’s weird.
Second, it puts another level of failure and slowness between users and the [...]