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WEB WORKER DAILY | SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2012 10 ways big data changes everything Amazon Arago Autopilot big data Cloudera Facebook Foursquare GigaOm Hadoop Jana MeLLmo MongoDB Myspace Nathan Eagle Netflix next-big-sound OPower Oracle Parse.ly A yottabyte isn’t what happens when the Jedi master starts gnawing on your leg. Enjoy: Can gigabytes predict the next Lady Gaga? How big data can curb the world’s energy consumption. -
On the State of Twitter Advertising: Adam Bain I’ve known Adam for some time, since his days at Fox Interactive Media, where he built Fox’s advertising platform (initially as a product out of MySpace). Last week I wrote a post about Neal Mohan , who will be joining us for this month’s Signal conference in San Francisco. That’s no easy feat. -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012 Remember When Social Media Was Simple and Mostly Blogs? They found that the use of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, texting, downloadable mobile apps and Foursquare are increasing while there are reductions in the use of blogs, message boards, video blogs, podcasts and MySpace. So is news an article and commentary a blog? These questions are not my real point but just a symptom of it. -
PORTALS AND KM | MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012 Shifts in 2011 Inc. 500 Social Media Usage There are other shifts as the use of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, texting, downloadable mobile apps and Foursquare are increasing while there are reductions in the use of blogs, message boards, video blogs, podcasts and MySpace. See my last post on them: Is Social Media Reaching a Plateau in America's Largest Companies? -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2012 Facebook Coalition To Google: Don’t Be Evil, Focus On The User Last week I spent an afternoon down at Facebook, as I mentioned here. While at Facebook I met with Blake Ross , Direct of Product (and well known in web circles as one of the creators of Firefox). as well as delight (Holy cow, Google is breaking its core promise to its users!). Today, the hack goes public. We think the results speak for themselves.
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PORTALS AND KM | SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2012 Taking in Zydeco Music in Opelousas Louisiana and More The quality shot of Geno came from his MySpace page as the lighting was not good for photos that afternoon. Opelousas is the home of zydeco music so it was a great treat to visit in December. As I drove through Opelousas I saw a mural that covered a number of the zydeco greats – see below. I Saturday on KRVS 88.7 -
HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2011 Keep your social media in perpetual Beta Facebook beat MySpace and many other contenders to the critical point when network effects drive exponential growth. Tweet When I started blogging, it was one of the few options to share ideas on the Net. After blogs, the next big phenomena were social networks. LinkedIn is just a place where I hang my hat. Hedge your bets, I’d say. -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011 Social Media Use Continues to Expand in US Higher Education The number of schools using MySpace has declined from 16% last year to 8% this year. A new study by Nora Ganim Barnes and Ava M. Lescault, Social Media Adoption Soars as Higher-Ed Experiments and Reevaluates Its Use of New Communications Tools , provides some useful results. They began to look at this issue in 2007. -
WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM | THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011 Why IBM Represents The Future Of Social Business You have place specific networks, such as sleep new york for people in manhattan, and then you have industry specific networks, like this one, kind of like myspace music, or myspace film, but for business and it people. Why IBM Represents The Future Of Social Business Mark Fidelman , Seek Omega | Jul. In reality, a struggle. -
Tips for being a great blogger (and good person) hope blogging won’t go the way of MySpace, Google Wave and so much other social media. Since having my son, I have not been the best blogger in the world, but that doesn’t meant that I’m not thinking about blogging. probably have a year’s worth of posts in my head, but always time with adorable toddler trumps blogging. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011 What mobile apps are essential for collaboration on the go? Another popular “all-on one IM app that supports a variety of protocols, including AIM, iChat, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Skype Chat , and works on a number of different mobile platforms. But what apps do mobile workers need to get their jobs done? Touchdown. Soonr. Join.me. -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2011 My Favorite Tweets for June 15 - 30 2011 News Corporation Sells #MySpace for $545M less than paid for it [link]. The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace [link]. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information. spot tested the reduced shortened urls and they all should work. Twitter For Newsrooms!? -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2011 My Favorite Tweets for June 1 - 15 2011 MySpace a big loser for News Corp - will WSJ follow? Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information. Some of these I did to link to things I found useful and others are RTs that I want to save for the same reason. hope this is also useful for you. -
WWW.DDMCD.COM | SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2011 Assessing Readiness for Enterprise Social Software MySpace and Facebook, or even social bookmarking and. and partners are already using public systems (e g , MySpace, Facebook) to engage with others about your products or. Jive Software White Paper Assessing Readiness for. Enterprise Social Software Table of Contents IntroductIon 1 Why collaborate? Why a Self Assessment? addressed. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011 Taking Twitter to the Next Level: President of Global Revenue Adam Bain He came to Twitter from Fox Interactive, where, among many other things, he helped lead the acquisition of MySpace and build out a scaled revenue platform across all of Fox's online properties. Twitter. It's our favorite conundrum here in Internet Media Land, isn't it? At least Bain has experience in both. See you in New York! -
WWW.CITEMAN.COM | MONDAY, MAY 9, 2011 The Case for Corporate Social Networking Discussion in CiteOps.com Surfing facebook in office good for business Good news for workers addicted to Facebook Bebo and MySpace a British thinktank says bosses should not stop their staff using social networking sites because they could actually benefit their firms. There are many benefits to implementing social networking. enterprise2.0 - Reflections on the early days of social networking as LinkedIn reaches 100 million users
From there, Friendster was founded in 2002, LinkedIn and MySpace in 2003, and Facebook in 2004. Last week LinkedIn reached a significant milestone: 100 million users. On the occasion LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman sent out an email to the first 100,000 users thanking them for being early adopters. Some have flourished. Enterprise 2.0 -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2011 US Charities Outpace Other Sectors in Social Media Now the latest iteration of their research finds that all of the top charities in the US are using at least one form of social media, either blogs, podcasts, message boards, social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare), texting or video blogging. strategies in meeting their objectives. -
THE FASTFORWARD BLOG | FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2011 Social Media Usage Pervasive in Major US Charities, Ahead of Other Sectors Now the latest iteration of their research finds that all of the top charities in the US are using at least one form of social media, either blogs, podcasts, message boards, social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare), texting or video blogging. This study is on the usage of social media by US charities. The -
LIBRARY CLIPS | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011 Don’t control, curate! I’m personally into bedroom or starting out artists…without sites like Soundcloud, Myspace, Vimeo, Bandcamp where would we be in finding this cool stuff. In organisations we have a fetish for control and neatness in regards to information and communication; which is flys in the face of how we naturally behave. Online groups. -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2011 The Inc. 500 Continues to Embrace Social Media in Increasing Numbers It looked at blogs, online video, message boards, podcasting, and the specific social networking tools: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Linkedin, and Foursquare. This one covered Social Media Usage in the Inc. In contrast here is their most recent one on Blogging and Twitter by the Fortune 500. 500 list. -
THE FASTFORWARD BLOG | MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 2011 Social Media Usage in the Inc. 500 Continues to Rise It looked at blogs, online video, message boards, podcasting, and the specific social networking tools: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Linkedin, and Foursquare. This one covered Social Media Usage in the Inc. In contrast here is their most recent one on Blogging and Twitter by the Fortune 500. Magazine to the Inc. 500 list. Within the Inc. -
COLLABORATION 2.0 | THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2011 Putting the Human Back in HR Further down the hierarchy countless ‘Reductions In Force’, reshuffles and hires are happening this January, with scant media discussion unless it’s a mass layoff, such as the MySpace shrinkage, or a mass business ‘Tis the season for career musical chairs. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011 Make My Baby - Is The Baby Facebook? Updated: No, It's Myspace. And Zugo was using MySpace inventory, NOT Facebook Over the weekend, as I pondered an eMarketer report estimating Facebook's advertising revenue at $1.86 billion (seems low), I wondered to myself: When will Facebook start to drive the kind of widespread graymarket activity which proved Google's immense worth? Or will it ever? Literally. -
COLLABORATIVE THINKING | MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 Browse, Build and Share Real-time Streams with DataSift The initial buzz around DataSift was generated when Twitter agreed to give them access to the Twitter firehose, but they now have access to a much wider range of data including the Google Buzz, MySpace, SixApart, WordPress, Facebook and Digg. via blog.programmableweb.com. ActivityStreams - What are the jobs of the future?
“You can have thousands of friends on Facebook and MySpace, Dawson says. “A celebrity will have people that help them manage their MySpace site as they have a lot of people to interact with and not enough time.. It made me remember an interview I did a couple of years for an article on the jobs of the future. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2011 Back to the Future: A Review of Last Year’s Social Media Trends Myspace will die. Like a bad rash, MySpace is hard to eliminate. Myspace is still being (ab)used by bands and musicians, comedians, C-list actors, “models and other celebrity wannabes, as well as by people who didn’t get the memo that Myspace is dead. Virtual goods: insanely popular. billion in 2011. Mobile. -
TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2010 MySpace's new strategy: building a new and valuable space in social content I just caught up for a coffee with Nick Love, head of MySpace and IGN Australia. haven't been following MySpace closely for a while, so it was interesting to hear how it has repositioned. recent article on Mashable provided a nice review of MySpace's New Strategy. MySpace is also introducing a new type of user: the curator. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2010 Do You Need Those Other Social Networks? MySpace and MySpace. These are the sites where you can easily import RSS feeds from other sources, like MySpace and Tumblr. You probably have several or many social network accounts that you’re ignoring. Admit it. have several dozen. few months back, I wrote about 6 Ways to Revive a Dead Social Media Channel. Usage. Daily. -
TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2010 Jeffrey Cole at Ninemsn Digital Marketing Summit on the future of digital media Jeffrey went back to his earlier comments on News Corp' purchase of MySpace, and feels he is vindicated. The biggest drawcard of the day for me was Jeffrey Cole of USC Annanberg School Center for the Digital Future, who I hadn't heard speak before. Below are notes I took during his presentation. More notes from the Summit later. nuff already. -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2010 Social Media Most Common Channel for Sharing Content on Web According to a new study by CNN 43% of peer-to-peer news sharing comes from social media networks and tools e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, followed by email (30%), SMS (15%) and IM (12%). This is not surprising as social media makes it easier, often with a one click means to share. However, data on the topic is good. -
THE FASTFORWARD BLOG | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2010 CNN Study States Social Media Top Channel for Sharing Content on the Web According to a new study by CNN 43% of peer-to-peer news sharing comes from social media networks and tools e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, followed by email (30%), SMS (15%) and IM (12%). This is not surprising as social media makes it easier, often with a one click means to share. However, data on the topic is good. Social Medi - Comedy 2.0: You Had Me at "Social"
Tompkins to Boston” that are largely created and maintained by fans, and relentlessly nurtured by him via his presence on: Facebook (3,325 friends as of this writing), MySpace (11,323 friends) and. Saturday night, I was fortunate to see a professional comedian perform. Paul F. This was clearly a different way to make a comedy show happen. -
BROWSE.WORKLITERACY.COM | SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2010 Deliberate Practice - Work Literacy Home | Blog | About Participate Services People | Subscribe Subscribe to Aggregated Feed + Links Top Keywords [?] Top Keywords are determined based on what terms are used in the content represented by this source, keywords, dates as compared to other sources. It was really popular and we had a great time doing it. Yippee! Deliberate Practice (4). - Will the future of social networking be open and distributed? Here comes Plexus
Anshu Sharma wrote : It will be a game changer - a new Facebook or Google that will challenge the closed networks by offering a good enough service that is as good as MySpace or Facebook but is entirely open. His excellent speech, titled How Not to be Seen, is below, and the transcript on Mark’s blog. They can be unilateral or bilateral. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, JULY 6, 2010 We Are At the Mercy of Those Social Networks don’t see a mass exodus to MySpace happening. Last week, Twitter went down. Again. We’ve all been there before. Many times before. Why do we do this to ourselves? Why are we putting our brand assets, communications and marketing messages, customer interactions and other intellectual property into the hands of others? -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2010 Identifying Your Social Media Triad Yet many of us have dozens, because we also have accounts on YouTube , SlideShare , Flickr , Foursquare or GoWalla , even MySpace. How much tech and social media is too much? Not monetarily, mind you, but quantity (in order to) produce quality? Everything else is the icing, while those three places are the cake. to spread a little icing! -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2010 24 iPhone Apps to Improve Your Social Networking Of course, the top social networks have their very own mobile apps, including MySpace , but LinkedIn’s is particularly robust. Tags: Apps Facebook myspace twitter iphone linkedin tweetdeck social superstar TriOut PicPosterous I’m a sucker for iPhone apps. Foursquare , GoWalla , BrightKite , Loopt , Whrrl. LinkedIn. Skype. -
Rex's Thought Spot: Beyond Serendipity for Enterprise 2.0 skip to main | skip to sidebar Rexs Thought Spot Personal Reflections on Innovation & Collaboration in a 2.0 World All comments posted on this blog do not reflect the opinions of any organization that I am affiliated with. These are my personal perspectives only. Friday, June 4, 2010 Beyond Serendipity for Enterprise 2.0 are you? and E2.1. But how? -
HAROLD JARCHE | TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2010 What tools should we learn? Most people are familiar with social networking tools such as MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn. The LCB question this month is, What Tools Should we Learn , or: The question is really about the specific tools that would make sense to learn today in order to be a valuable eLearning professional in 2015? Social Bookmarks. tag such as “ABC123? -
Five Years In One Place, An Appreciation We're the fourth largest pure play social media company on the web, behind Facebook, Blogger, and Myspace. Five years and about two months ago, I wrote a blog post announcing the creation of Federated Media Publishing. will admit I was scratching an itch, not certain that it would work out. Well, that didn't happen. -
IMG.EN25.COM | WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010 Assessing Readiness for Social Business Software - Jive SBS MySpace and Facebook, or even social bookmarking and. and partners are already using public systems (e g , MySpace, Facebook) to engage with others about your products or. Jive Software White Paper Assessing Readiness for. Social Business Software Table of Contents IntroductIon 1 Why collaborate? Starting Points 2 Why collaborate now? -
WWW.CNBCMAGAZINE.COM | TUESDAY, MAY 18, 2010 CNBC Business | SIX DEGREES OF COLLABORATION Find what people want in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn; find the engineers and marketers too in social media.” Colin Brown reports Want to know how to succeed today in business without really trying? Forget about Old Boy networks and climbing the corporate ladder by whatever Machiavellian means necessary. is a little worn-out. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2010 Threadsy’s Universal Inbox Enters Public Beta Threadsy also provides access to Facebook Chat, AIM, MySpace IM, Google Talk and Twitter through the included Meebo Bar. Like a lot of web workers, I have way too many email and social network accounts. Threadsy , which has now entered public beta , aims to put them all in one place. You can also view Gmail’s labels/folders. - OneRiot Indexes Facebook Data
From the real time search service's blog post: Until today, we’ve been indexing the links shared on Twitter, MySpace, Digg, Delicious and by our own OneRiot panel to help determine our search results. Now, with the addition of Facebook data, OneRiot delivers search results that reflect the pulse of a much, much wider social web. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010 Samsung Reclaim: Eco-friendly Cell Phone It also has apps for social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube. Like most web workers, I’m dependent on my cell phone for staying in touch with my clients when I’m out of the office. It was a coincidence that I had to shop for a new cell phone on Earth Day. And the quality of apps is variable. -
HAROLD JARCHE | FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 2010 Beta, data and more There’s a theory that Ning’s actions are part of a carefully planned scam to make the company the next MySpace or Facebook. Here’s what I learned on Twitter this past week: @literacyadviser “The only truly effective web filter is an educated mind. via @ jonhusband. We see this all the time in politics. via @minutrition. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 2010 April Fools! That MySpace had been sold, for 250 million, to Viacom (who would pay that, just to rub it into Murdoch's face).That I was going to post.That Twitter had been sold, for 1.75 billion, to Google (who would pay that, I'd reckon).That But.April's Fools is so boring now, ain't it -
JON HUSBAND | SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 2010 Have We Finally Entered a Fundamental Rupture With the Past ? 2002 : The beginning of the emergence of digital natives encourages applications like YouTube and MySpace and begins to create solid reasons for social networking. Currently they communicate through and in social networks such as YouTube , MySpace or Facebook , focusing their interest in networks based on the groups to which they belong. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010 Thursday Signal - Repeat After Me: Apps Are (Currently) Myopic (Or.We've Seen This Movie Before.) Why MySpace Co-Presidents Aren't Worried About Growth (PaidContent) Well, I doubt that will last. I'm not claiming to be deeply informed about the app marketplace, which Google stirred up today (and, to my mind, the market could use a few more spoons). But I do use apps. So, here's my beef with AppWorld. guess being old counts for something. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010 ZooLoo Updated: Now Do More With Less The private dashboard allows you to create a start page for your browsing experience (similar to iGoogle) but it can also capably work as a front-end or aggregator for your email, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. At its core, ZooLoo is still two separate products: a dashboard and a site creator. per month option. -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2010 Social Media in the Inc. 500: 2007 - 2009 In 2009, several new tools were added including Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, and MySpace. The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth conducted a study on social media by Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson on the usage of social media in fast-growing corporations. The 2009 study looks again at the Inc. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010 Filtering the Social Web With ShareThis You can track how your content fares across numerous networks, starting with Facebook and Twitter, with Google Buzz, MySpace and LinkedIn pending. I don’t think there’s much of a downside to giving your readers tools at their fingertips to easily share your content with their contacts. When Is Sharing “Oversharing?. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010 Friday Signal: The Web Gets Its Wisdom Teeth (We Hope) If I Were CEO of MySpace. ( image ) A couple of days ago I riffed for bit on the convergence of conversation in our industry around mobile, local, real time, and social. Sometimes this stuff needs an easier name to identify it all, so I'm going to go with MOLRS (MObile Local Realtime Social). Why another acronym? And so on. MLRS"?) -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010 Friday Signal: The Web Gets Its Wisdom Teeth (We Hope) If I Were CEO of MySpace. ( image ) A couple of days ago I riffed for bit on the convergence of conversation in our industry around mobile, local, real time, and social. Sometimes this stuff needs an easier name to identify it all, so I'm going to go with MOLRS (MObile Local Realtime Social). Why another acronym? And so on. MLRS"?) -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2010 8 Significant Developments in Social Media You Should Watch MySpace : CEO Leaves; MySpace will die. Last year, I was telling my clients “We are cautiously optimistic that MySpace ( GigaOM Pro company profile ) will make a comeback because their new CEO is a Facebook co-founder. Because Facebook doesn’t allow flexbility and customization, I’m going to miss MySpace. -
THE FASTFORWARD BLOG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010 Org Charts in an E2.0 Context ? From Craigslist to MySpace to FaceBook to Second Life to eHarmony, from instant messaging to podcasting, blogging, video chat and virtual worlds, the Internet is radically changing the ways in which people find romance, manage friendships, share insights, learn, build communities, and more. Nor do I think they should. Think about it. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2010 The Catchup Signal Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace (Microsoft Outlook blog) It's not all Buzz, Microsoft would like you to know. Vacation was great. Too short. As usual. And there was plenty going on that I missed. So here are some stories from the past five or so days that are worth your attention. But I'll be back at it soon. Ad Age). -
BROWSE.WORKLITERACY.COM | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2010 Literacy Learning - Work Literacy Home | Blog | About Participate Services People | Subscribe Subscribe to Aggregated Feed + Links Top Keywords [?] Top Keywords are determined based on what terms are used in the content represented by this source, keywords, dates as compared to other sources. Literacy (468) Learning (468) Concepts Work Skills (33) PWLE (10) eLearning 2.0 Luo, L. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2010 Crossing the Social Media Streams This also means not using desktop clients such as TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop or whatever to cross-post simultaneous updates to Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. Tags: How-To Facebook google buzz myspace social media twitter To those we annoy, our posts increasingly look like “noise.. The Noise Makers. Divide and Conquer. Web Life. -
BROWSE.WORKLITERACY.COM | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2010 Google Docs Delicious 2008 - Work Literacy Home | Blog | About Participate Services People | Subscribe Subscribe to Aggregated Feed + Links Top Keywords [?] Top Keywords are determined based on what terms are used in the content represented by this source, keywords, dates as compared to other sources. Google Docs (4) Delicious (4) 2008 (4) Concepts PWLE (1) eLearning 2.0 survey and report. -
Socializing Andrew McAfee has similarly used the term social networking service to refer to these sites, which include Facebook, MySpace, and so on. I recently tweeted an observation of David Weinberger' s on how our language has shifted: Over the past decade, we’ve gone from talking about social circles to social networks. circle draws a line around us. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010 Friday Signal: What Marketers Want from Twitter Metrics more valuable metric would be "active users", a standard that both Facebook and MySpace have promoted over the years (as one might expect, MySpace hasn't really promoted that particular metric much lately). Yesterday I stopped by Twitter HQ to see Dick Costolo. Dick recently moved to Marin ( my home turf ) and took Twitter's COO job. -
THE FASTFORWARD BLOG | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010 Social Media Usage in the Inc. 500 in 2009 In 2009, several new tools were added including Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, and MySpace. The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth conducted a study on social media by Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson on the usage of social media in fast-growing corporations. The 2009 study looks again at the Inc. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010 The Thursday Signal: Is Google Losing Its Customer Focus? MySpace CEO Van Natta Was Fired by News Corp. I'm a bit reticent to jump into this, as I'm not sure you all care that much, but I've got a decent reason for writing about Buzz ( yesterday's piece ) again today. First, I've seen a piece ( Calacanis ) proclaiming Buzz the second (third? fifth?) coming of social. think this is silly. Go nuts. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2010 Weds. Signal: What's The Buzz, Google? FM Audience Takes Off – Now #4 in Conversational Media (FM) We're behind just three others - Facebook, Myspace and Blogger. The first-day response is somewhat positive - mainly due to the huge installed base that Gmail brings to the party. However, I am not so certain this is going to work. And my reasons remain the same : 1. IE, silly. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2010 Free Twitter Automation Tools Roundup The thing I like about this one is that it also connects to Ping.fm , which means you can not only schedule posts to Twitter but also to many other social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc. Whenever you find a pocket of time for Twitter, you can sit down, write several tweets, and queue them up to post at a later date. -
THE FASTFORWARD BLOG | FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010 Survey: New Social Networking Patterns Among ‘Generation Jones’ MySpace 11% 22% 29%. While social networking is seen as an activity dominated by younger generations, new research shows Baby Boomers are getting into the game as well. Facebook 39% 43% 50%. So who are we? So is Sarah Palin and Simon Cowell. -
HAROLD JARCHE | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2010 The Social Network Business Plan – Review Silver even thinks that recommender communities will one day usurp MySpace, Facebook and other general communities. The Social Network Business Plan: 18 strategies that will create great Wealth by David Silver. David Silver is a venture capitalist and explains the type of online communities that he would invest in. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2010 New Silverlight Client for Facebook: I Can’t Believe This is Facebook It used to have the advantage of at least comparing favorably to MySpace, which I find a user experience nightmare. Facebook is, more or less, something unpleasant that I tolerate. That’s exactly what Microsoft’s done with its new Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook , available for Windows and Mac. link at the top. Web Life. -
Australians are #1 globally in usage of social media: Why? Research featured as late as our Future of Media Report 2007 showed that Australia was dramatically behind the US and UK in Facebook usage, though it was beginning to catch up on usage of MySpace usage and tools such as Photobucket. Some very interesting data just out from Nielsen on social media usage. This is a real news. -
ITSINSIDER.COM | MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2010 ITSinsider | Practical Advice for 2010 on 2.0 Adoption Steer away from language that alludes to teenagers in Facebook, MySpace, etc. ITSinsider An Insider’s view on IT-Social for the Enterprise Search About Calendar @ITSinsider Subscribe buy viagra internet generic viagra cheap cheap generic viagra // you’re reading. Adoption Council Practical Advice for 2010 on 2.0 Adoption , The 2.0 -
JOINING DOTS: BLOG | SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2010 December 2009 Newsletter Here's a selection of links shared during December via Google Reader , Delicious and Twitter. Organised into four five categories: Systems and the bits and pieces that make them: People, Information and Technology plus Design makes an appearance this month. As usual, the categories overlap. Enjoy! Collaboration is hot, why now? -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2009 WWD’s 2009 in Review, Part 1 Perhaps in a sign of things to come for 2009, one of the most popular WWD posts of the month covered ways to improve Twitter efficiency , while Facebook overtook Myspace as the No. As the year draws to a close, I thought it might be interesting to go back and review some of the big news and my favorite WWD posts from 2009. January. February. -
JOINING DOTS: BLOG | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2009 Reviewing trends from 2005 The image was even used as a background on MySpace pages. This blog has now been running for over 4 years. dithered a fair while before setting it up. Back then, starting a blog was usually an indicator that you're about to change your job. I was.) Nobody predicted Google or Facebook or Twitter etc. What does Web 2.0 technologies. - Women actually say things
From Understanding Users of Social Networks (HBS Working Knowledge), research by Mikolaj Jan Piskorski looks at patterns of behavior on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Catching up -- and trying to get ahead of 2010. Some interest bits from latest reading. An interesting read as it differentiates how women and men use the sites. -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2009 Specialized Search is a Next Big Move for Search As reported by Venture beat , Google is planning to launch a music search service with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike, according to multiple reports. I have been discussing specialized search a bit (for example, see: Will Yahoo's Changing Search Strategy Cause it to Pick Up Niche Services? ). It can be formal or informal. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2009 Threadsy: A Universal Social Inbox This opens up your Threadsy to IM, because you can now add all of your accounts from GTalk, AIM, Yahoo Chat, MSN Chat, Facebook Chat, MySpace IM and many more. MySpace M.I.A? Speaking of MySpace, I do have one minor complaint. don’t understand why Threadsy doesn’t support MySpace. Tried Threadsy? -
MASHABLE.COM | MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2009 9 Great Document Collaboration Tools for Teams With cloud computing continuing its reach into areas once dominated by desktop applications, it’s a great time to consider how your business could benefit from online collaboration tools for producing great documents. We’ve also looked at how to collaboratively create presentations using online tools as well. Thanks Mash. Prinz Try BSCW. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2009 A Slew of Interesting Publishing Tidbits News on Gravity , seems to be an updated take on forums/groups from ex Myspace folks. Worth mentioning. Videos showing traffic patterns at the NYT.com. Yet another reader from the publishing industry , this one called Mag+. They get this part: "Let the Web be the Web." Indeed. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009 What's Up? The rise of real time search (just this past week, Google rolled Twitter, Facebook and Myspace data into its results ) has everyone buzzing. (This piece was written for the BingTweets blog and is part of an ongoing exploration of search underwritten by Microsoft. See my series on the interplay of search and decisions here , here , and here. -
BITS.BLOGS.NYTIMES.COM | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009 The American Diet: 34 Gigabytes a Day Companies Amazon eBay Google MySpace Apple Facebook Microsoft Yahoo Home World U.S. Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Technology World U.S. One of the report’s authors addresses some of the reader comments on the research in a comment on this post. Update | 12:07 p.m. Corrected the amount of gigabytes in an exabyte. -
JOINING DOTS: BLOG | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009 Dell B2B Social Media Huddle Part 1 - Trends You know which types of social media are preferrred by your customers" If you take any interest in current news, it is unlikely that you will have never heard of Twitter or Facebook, MySpace or Wikipedia, Amazon or eBay. On Monday 7th December 2009 I attended Dell's excellent B2B Social Media Huddle at the UK headquarters in Bracknell. -
COLLABORATIVE THINKING | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2009 FINRA - Compliance Considerations for Social Networking Sites With the advent of Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter, business use of social networking sites has become popular and can present supervision challenges for firms. FYI - for registration details (including fees), follow the link below. Compliance Considerations for Social Networking Sites. Live Program March 17, 2010 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m., -
WEB WORKER DAILY | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2009 Twittering Causes Blindness: Busting Social Media Myths MySpace — 26 years. OK, I know twittering doesn’t really cause blindness, but I am constantly hearing all sorts of myths about social media these days, and I’m surprised this one hasn’t made the rounds yet. I’m here to dispel some of the most common myths I’ve heard about social media tools and tactics. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2009 Nimbuzz: Voice, Social Networking and Instant Messaging in One The Nimbuzz Mobile client supports the IM services one would expect (Windows Live/MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ); social networking chat (Facebook, MySpace); plus some services not often seen in North America, but which are popular elsewhere (the VZ Networks, Gadu-Gadu, Hyves, Giovani). IM accounts. The origins of Nimbuzz are in Europe. -
SOFTWAREWIKI.DACHISGROUP.COM | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2009 Social Software Resources (Dachis Group Social Software Wiki) www.myeoffice.com UK Myspace www.myspace.com CA my Yahoo! We offer people the ability to communicate, engage and have fun with one another within the context of relationships they built on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. Which has pretty much always been our whole deal. Add notes. www.c2b2.co.uk/iPoint/ipoint?SelectedPage=1 -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009 Must-have iPhone and iPod Touch Apps For Newbies multi-service instant message client for MSN/Windows Live, AIM, Yahoo, Gtalk, ICQ, Facebook Chat and MySpace Chat. It’s WebWorkerDaily’s fault that I’ve bought an iPod touch (s aapl). That’s my excuse, anyway.) But why not buy an iPhone , or a Palm Pre , which I’d had my eye on for several months? eBuddy. Reeder. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009 Beta Roundup: Social Networking, Twitter and Messaging Clients VoxOx is an ambitious program combining IM; social networks (Facebook, MySpace and Twitter); SMS texting; faxing; private email; file sharing; video conversations; and voice connections. myspace seesmic sms socialite tweetdeck tweetminer twitter video voxox But all of the following are worth trying, and watching as they develop. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009 VoxOx: Voice, Video, Texting and Instant Messaging In One Package In addition to the various IM protocols, it supports social networks (Facebook, MySpace and Twitter); SMS texting; faxing; private email ; file sharing ; video conversations; and voice connections. instant messaging meebo myspace Pidgin skype sms texting twitter video voice voip voxox VoxOx’s other services are free. -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009 RightNow’s Fourth Annual User Summit, October 26-28 Keynote speaker Tish Whitcraft, senior vice president of customer care at MySpace will present, “How to deliver superior customer Experiences to 250 Million (and Counting) ” and t he Disney Institute will present, “How to build brand loyalty and customer experience tips.” Greg Gianforte, CEO and founder, will provide a keynote. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009 Book Review: “Friends With Benefits” MySpace chapter doesn’t emphasize enough that site is only relevant to certain demographics. Social media is becoming a must-use tool for marketing businesses of all types and sizes. The guidance offered in “Friends with Benefits” is clearly tailored towards large businesses. Friends with Benefits” tries to be a Social Media 101 class. -
PORTALS AND KM | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2009 Interesting Social Media Site Statistics for Facebook, Twitter and MySpace MySpace was second with 30 percent but it had a year-over-year decrease of -55%. Since Twitter and Facebook visitors tend to be older than MySpace this seems consistent with the other results. I recently found some useful social media statistics through @ariegoldshlager on T witter. Exoerian Hitwise released its September 2009 results. - Futurist proved correct! …and today describes the extraordinary social technologies of 2016 (release)
Ross’s second book, Living Networks , published in 2002, opens with a description of corporate blogging, and discusses the idea of social networks years before MySpace or Facebook existed , as well as the rise of “micro-messages,” anticipating the Twitter phenomenon. Futurist proved correct! -
COLLABORATIVE THINKING | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2009 OpenSocial In The Enterprise The standard has a well-developed draft, and has already been implemented by Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, and Opera. During the Enterprise 2.0 event in Boston last year, I moderated a discussion between IBM and Oracle on the topic of portals and its relation to Enterprise 2.0. Senior Architect, IBM and Jay Simons, VP Marketing, Atlassian. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2009 Web 2: Help Me Interview Jon Miller He's inherited a number of seemingly intractable problems - the digital model for news, for one, MySpace, for another. No matter, I'll ask both Owen and Jon what the plan is for MySpace. But let's not forget that Newscorp is a lot bigger than MySpace. Now Miller runs digital for none other than Rupert Murdoch. Who owns it? -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2009 Web 2: Help Me Interview Qi Lu Clearly we have a lot to discuss - the shifting sands of alliances (Facebook, Yahoo, Myspace, etc.), In the personality-driven world that is our industry, Qi Lu stands out for his relative lack of public profile. In short, Qi is the man in charge of Microsoft's online strategy. I'm looking forward to our interaction. the rise (and fall?) -
MASHABLE.COM | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2009 Google Launches 9 New Ways to Search music myspace obama ONLINE VIDEO open web awards owa Photos politics privacy rss Search shopping SMS social media social network social networking social networks Sponsors sports startups summermash television travel tv twitter ustream video widget widgets wikipedia Wordpress Yahoo youtube iPhone MMS Update: AT&Ts Last Stand? Stay tuned. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 Diigo Adds More Research and Collaboration Features Even MySpace is getting into the act by syncing posts with Twitter ! Locations & Services diigo Facebook firefox FriendFeed internet explorer iphone iterasi myspace social bookmarking twitter So how can a lesser-known app like Diigo compete? Multiple versions of the same page can be saved, either as HTML or images. 7, 2009. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 Why Should I Engage in Social Media? If a client is unwilling — or unable — to interact with their customers in new ways, those customers may turn to companies that have a presence where they like to communicate (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter). How many times are you hearing the question, “Why should I engage in social media? during your work week? 7, 2009. | |