YouTube was having trouble getting content from content providers, partly due to technology platform issues. MySpace is a mass media brand. 21% of the Australian Internet population is on MySpace. 68% of MySpace users are 18 years and over, and the average age is increasing. Run across all the MySpace properties globally. MORE >>

Where one library’s population may be perfectly comfortable with the library friending them in MySpace, another library’s population would be horrified. It’s so easy to get tunnel vision or to see one library who has implemented a social technology successfully and to think that you can just do the same at your library. MORE >>

Facebook beat MySpace and many other contenders to the critical point when network effects drive exponential growth. SocialLearning TechnologyTweet 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. MORE >>

Having watched MySpace get marginalized while Facebook dominates for now, it’s only a matter of time before more new platforms that we don’t own come along and lure the next bunch of digital sharecroppers. Tags: Communities Technology I’ve called my blog my persistent presence on the Web. MORE >>

is the next wave of corporate-technology adoption. Exhibit 2: Participatory technologies can be categorized into five groups. Exhibit 3: Six new management capabilities can be unlocked by participatory technologies. About the authors Letters to the editor Technologies known collectively as Web 2.0 First time here? tools. MORE >>