Social Media Updates: Page 443

  • 2007 Social Media Top 10 List

    It's that time of year again. Time to choose the most significant social media story of the year. And keeping with our growing reliance on beta testing and soft launching, I am posting before the launch of 2008. From Facebook to Twitter and from Justin.TV to iPhone, it was indeed a busy year. ...

    By • Nov. 28, 2007

  • LinkedIn Dislikes Teachers

    LinkedIn made headlines this morning with the leak that News Corp might be in acquisition negotiations. Back at my parent's house for Thanksgiving, LinkedIn was also stirring-up conversation... <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> For the past couple years my sister was a F...

    By • Nov. 23, 2007

  • Facebook Isn't A Social Network, LinkedIn Is

    If networking is defined as "expanding one's social network or sphere of influence by initiating mutually advantageous new relationships with people," then the majority of Facebook users are not networkers. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> It's clear to me in analyzing...

    By • Oct. 29, 2007

  • Microsoft gets closer to Facebook. Intranet Implications

    This blog would be amiss if it did not make at least a passing reference to the Microsoft Facebook investment. What does this mean from an enterprise perspective? Quite simply that Facebook can get into the intranet market. Pictured above is Bill Gates's Friends page on Facebook.We rarely talk ...

    By • Oct. 26, 2007

  • Facebook bragging could get you ... arrested

    It won't be long before lawyers pull up Facebook profiles before a judge to substantiate a point.This story of students of Ball State University is an example for those who need to take FB 101: what not to post about or comment on. They attacked another student and bragged about the incident on...

    By • Oct. 24, 2007

  • Flock: Latest version is pretty sweet

    I have to give the team at Flock a lot of credit. The browser â€" which is built on Mozilla code, but has all kinds of added social features â€" has been through hell and back over the past couple of years. First, the initial release was weak, and got dumped on by just about everyone. Then Perfo...

    By • Oct. 21, 2007

  • "Fogeys" on Facebook

    So I was reading an article this morning entitled "Fogeys Flock to Facebook". Seems the traditional press is recognizing the shift of many professionals my age from LinkedIn (a valuable but rather staid, boring place after all) to Facebook. In multiple instances, the article asks if Facebook's ...

    By • Aug. 11, 2007

  • Video: "I Got a Crush on Obama"

    This one's all over the place today, and for good reason â€" it's sheer genius. Barak Obama has a new fan, and she's willing to use every weapon available to get his attention. Check out these soon-to-be-classic lyrics:You're into border securityLet's break this border between you and meUniversa...

    By • June 14, 2007

  • Facebook revista - it rocks

    The last week or so has seen a deluge of posts covering Facebook. As always the more exuberant predict it is the Next Big Thing likely to knock MySpace out the park. Yeah, yeah, maybe, so what. The posts that interest me however are those that look at this from a business perspective. In a Twit...

    By • June 11, 2007

  • I Got My Facebook!

    The New York Times had similar thoughts. Check out this really neat article there on how a daughter is pissed off because her mum gets a Facebook!"But after receiving a follow-up threat from my daughter ("unfriendpaige right now. im serious. i dont care if they request you. say no. iwill be so...

    By • June 9, 2007

  • What's the future for youth on Facebook?

    So everyone is talking of Facebook. My Twitter is abuzz with it. My aggregator is bursting with blog posts around it. The social media blogworld is freaking out in it. Even my 79 year old aunt who sent me an add as friend invite! Reminds me of the old days when we all moved from one socia...

    By • May 30, 2007

  • Facebook and On Demand platforms

    I may be way behind the curve on this one, but I am now on Facebook, and am finding it fascinating on many levels. For those interested, my profile is here ... feel free to invite me as a friend. Here is a recent article passed on to me by a colleague. Also, what is very interesting to me is tha...

    By • May 30, 2007

  • Be careful what you wish for, iLike

    It has to be pretty great to see your application become the new hot thing â€" with everyone wanting to sign up all at once â€" and to be able to piggy-back on the success of something as huge as Facebook's new F8 platform in order to get there. And hopefully that feeling of joy and well-being w...

    By • May 27, 2007

  • Facebook generations

    At the risk of alienating readers, I have a confession. I'm on Facebook. At 54 years of age you've got be wondering with Howlett has completely lost his marbles. If I have, then so has CNN writer David Kirkpatrick who shares my age. In his reporting about Facebook's F8 (fate, get it?) event, he...

    By • May 26, 2007

  • I've deleted my MySpace account - long live Facebook!

    I'm also going to expound on the glories of social networking sites in a moment, but first, here's why I left MySpace:1. No one else I knew used it in a meaningful way (or, at least we were never motivated to find one another).2. The spam! Egads, the spam! Between malicious "friend" requests th...

    By • May 25, 2007

  • Will Facebook take over the World?

    In the current, connected world you are bombarded by content, and new services competing for your attention. I'm a big proponent of social networks, and I've been trying out Ning as both a user (with OpenCoffee Club) and a provider (with London Wiki Wednesdays), and it looks to be quite a reaso...

    By • May 25, 2007

  • Could Facebook eat Yahoo's lunch?

    As promised, Facebook has launched an ambitious effort to transform itself from being just a social network into a platform with all kinds of services from other companies running inside its network. In a sense, Facebook will be the frame of the car and the engine, and other companies will provi...

    By • May 25, 2007

  • Find Young Adults On FaceBook

    College kids spending more time in social media sitesWhere do college kids go for their breaks? According to Youth Trends 17 - 25 year olds are spending a significant part of their break time online.Facebook is now the first choice of nearly 70% of females and 56% of males aged 17-25. Two blogs...

    By • May 25, 2007

  • Twitter suddenly becomes relevant

    (Originally posted on the Big in Japan blog)For a while, I've struggled to find an explanation for the reason I was using Twitter, even in the very minor way I was. It seems like everyone that I talked to about it said: "I don't know what the point is", yet they were using it somewhat regularly...

    By • May 22, 2007

  • Social Media Now: How Much is DIY Talent Worth?

    Is DIY Internet video a new media type? Or just a minor league development system for traditional media?The announcement that CBS is acquiring Wallstrip, a business group vlog covering stocks, sure looks like the classic minor league or indie rock development path. Wallstrip founder Howard Lindz...

    By • May 22, 2007

  • The Teenybopper Network

    Last week I attended Harvard's internal workshop on technology in teaching and learning, and got a real education from a couple undergraduates. Sameer Lakha and Rachel Popkin demonstrated all the ways they use Facebook and all the ways it's become a big deal on college campuses (particulary H...

    By • May 22, 2007

  • uTube: Senator Stevens Was Right, After All

    Senator Ted Stevens' claim to fame (and Wikipedia entry) is not his legislative work, but his famous metaphor, comparing the Internet to series of tubes. The world ridiculed him .. but is he turning out to be right?uTube, as in Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, the Ohio pipe equipment c...

    By • May 17, 2007

  • Social Media Now: Will the Widget Survive?

    On the heels of the still-unconfirmed deal to buy Photobucket, Fox Interactive Media's MySpace is apparently making another widget move-acquiring slide show widget maker Flecktor for as much as $20 million, according to Techcrunch, although FIM has declined to confirm or deny the deal.Michael A...

    By • May 16, 2007

  • Facebook - MarketPlace - Personal Ads

    Well it had to happen - starting this Friday Facebook starts a personals section that they will call Marketplace.The core of eBay's success is that it created an ecology of Trust that enabled people who did not know each other to safely do business. Facebook approaches this from another angle. ...

    By • May 11, 2007

  • It's the social part that is the killer

    As we all know by now, Facebook is the new black. It's the social network by which other social networks are judged â€" even MySpace, which it may already have eclipsed in terms of page views, if not users. So when it launches something it's definitely worth paying attention, especially when it ...

    By • May 11, 2007