Social Verses

Two years ago, I started this blog to blabber about social media. I was a social media developer at the time creating links to Facebook and Twitter. Shortly thereafter, the focus of my job changed and I was no longer living and breathing social media like I had been during those months.

Last fall, I had the opportunity to get involved with mobile. I had been dabbling in the space for about a year, but now I was living and breathing Android much like I had been doing with social media years before. I changed jobs in July and am now immersed in not just Android, but all things mobile. And I’m having a blast.

So this blog will now take a left turn and focus more on mobile than social media. I am still very active in social media (as a user instead of developer), so you might still see a post or two regarding social networking. But now my brain power is focused mainly on smartphones and tablets. I suppose that means a new title is in order.

Stay tuned…

My name is Norton Lam and I am a social media addict.

While I’ve had (inactive) Friendster and MySpace accounts for a number of years, I really got started in social media through my job at a small startup in the Twin Cities. I got involved with Facebook in late ’07 and Twitter in late ’08 and it’s those two sites that really piqued my interest in “social media.”

Even with my involvement with social media, I would not call myself an “expert” in the field. There are a lot of people a lot smarter than me when it comes to social media. However, I do have some “expertise,” both as a user and as a developer.

I’m a Java developer by trade and have been for 12 years. I recently developed links from a web application to Facebook and Twitter as well as a couple of stand-alone Facebook applications (one for work, and one on my own). I will be expanding those efforts into MySpace and OpenSocial in the near future. It’s in these development efforts that I got involved in social media and really began to understand them–and then became an addict.

How did you learn about the social media site you use?

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