Musings on the new Internet
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Citizen journalism, New media, Social networking on Nov 17th, 2007
Web 2.0 and social media are having a big impact not only in the way people interact with each other but, perhaps even to a greater extent, in transforming the ways in which big media companies and advertisers will do business in the future.
The impact is real and I think we are only seeing the […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Social networking on Nov 1st, 2007
Google has announced “OpenSocial”, a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web designed to create an alternative developer platform to that offered by Facebook.
Founding partners of the project include: Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.
And today “MySpace”, the world’s […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Citizen journalism, New media, Social networking on Oct 22nd, 2007
Posted in Wired, Twitters Nate Ritter and Viss are closely following the events surrounding the California fires and posting updates of evacuations, things that are needed, and other important information.
Nate and Viss are using the hashtag #sandiegofire. Twitter users can enter “track sandiegofire” in SMS or IM and receive notifications whenever a tweet goes […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Media, Social networking, Technology on Oct 20th, 2007
I don’t watch much TV other than news and a few sporting events but I am always amazed at the way different media continue to converge and be used in ways that were not even imaginable a couple of years ago.
The next episode of CSI:NY to be aired next Wednesday and known as CSI:NY does […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, New media, Social networking on Oct 9th, 2007
An interesting move happened today in what may be Google’s next step in its efforts to revive social networking as part of their global strategy.
I mentioned yesterday that Google was getting ready to launch Orkut 2.0.
Today Jaiku announced that they are being acquired by Google.
With the acquisition of Jaiku Google will gain access to Jaiku […]
Posted in New media, Social networking on Oct 8th, 2007
Google is starting to throw more resources behind its social networking site Orkut recognizing that the social networking phenomenon is very profound and powerful.
Orkut is very popular in Asia and Latin America where it has nearly 24 million monthly users. However it badly trails behind MySpace and Facebook in the US and Europe where […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Business models, Social networking on Oct 4th, 2007
IDC predicts that the social networking application market will expand 120% in 2007.
Estimated at $46.8 million in 2006, this market will grow to $428.3 million by 2009 “creating a new application segment and establishing social networking as a new communications tool used for many purposes other than consumer socializing.”
IDC identifies three social networking segments emerging:
self-service […]
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