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Four reasons why public Facebook status updates won’t kill Twitter. Mike Butcher highlights the importance of “follow” rather than “friend” in social software.

# 9th February 2009, 7:04 pm / facebook, follow, friend, mike-butcher, socialsoftware, twitter

A Year Later, AOL Is Contemplating A Bebo Sale. Ignore the headline and read the actual article—Mike Butcher’s description of how Bebo targeted old fashioned TV advertising agencies while other social networks ignored them completely is riveting.

# 27th January 2009, 6:13 pm / advertising, agencies, aol, bebo, mike-butcher

An open letter to Mike Arrington. Former co-editor Mike Butcher’s take on the demise of TechCrunch UK. “Citizen Kane 2.0”.

# 16th December 2006, 12:19 pm / blogging, mike-arrington, mike-butcher, techcrunch, techcrunchuk