Social Media Updates: Page 448

  • Web Strategies of the 2008 Presidential Candidates

    There's a battle being fought between Generals and they're using the internet as the battlefield. I'm using this post to track the Web Strategies (how organizations use the web to reach to others) of the 2008 Presidential Candidates. The web is faster, cheaper, national, and most importantly, w...

    By • April 5, 2007

  • The rise of social networks and using Linkedin and Zoominfo as a research tool

    Some weeks ago I was moaned at by a colleague, Manoj Ranaweera, who spotted I'd registered on the popular social networking service LinkedIn and done nothing with it. It was on my things to do list, and so last week, actually prompted by Euan Semple, I decided to start putting some effort in to...

    By • April 4, 2007

  • Is Facebook overtaking MySpace?

    Eric Eldon, writing over at Matt Marshall's VentureBeat site, had a story yesterday that I must admit surprised me, even though I've sort of been assuming that Facebook is growing like a weed â€" my 17-year-old daughter and all her friends have signed up over the past few months, and so have I a...

    By • April 1, 2007

  • Social Media Now: YouTube v. NewTube-Can Big Media Keep it Real?

    Last November VC Fred Wilson asked an interesting question of the blogosphere: Can you fake authenticity?It's an enormous question of course-the stuff of a thousand dissertation-particularly for Americans. After all, our culture is based on the artificial invention of identities that project au...

    By • March 22, 2007

  • Social Media Now: The Global War on Widgets

    The global war on widgets launched by MySpace since its acquisition by News Corp made the New York Times today in a piece about MySpace blocking the Hooka music player a few days it was put to use by MySpace's most visible user, a singer named Tila Nguyen, whose professional name is Tila Tequil...

    By • March 20, 2007

  • YouTube Awards

    We'll be watching this one. For the record, PodTech was first to the videocast awards market. So the question is, which will get the Oscar-like brand, and which will be the Golden Globes? Alas, both feel like a Peoples Choice, which fits the world that they serve.In the meantime, I'm rooting fo...

    By • March 20, 2007

  • Twitter Wiki

    Yesterday, I wrote briefly about Twitter. Now, here's a great resource for those who want to dig deeper. It's a wiki that's helping to collect opinion, use cases, etc. link to original post

    By • March 17, 2007

  • Social networking: so last week

    Is it, or isn't it? Has social networking "jumped the shark"? According to this article, the first sign that the apocalypse is upon us is the fact that the Girl Scout cookies have their own MySpace page (who knew that they were female and 90 years old??).The question is whether the introduction...

    By • March 16, 2007

  • Embarrassed by MySpace foolishness or your criminal convictions? Erase them!

    Your reputation is at stake whenever you go online and shoot your mouth off. Your reputation is at stake when you end up drunk and half (or fully) naked on a MySpace page. And that, my friends, is life. You're supposed to learn some lessons and move on, hopefully without disgracing yourself too...

    By • March 16, 2007

  • Social Media Now: The Consumer Lesson of Twittermania

    No doubt Twitter was the story of the week. In fact, given the character limits on Twitter messages, there were probably more words written about Twitter on then Internet this week than there were words written in Twitter messages-from raves about Twittermap, a mash up of Twitter and Google Map...

    By • March 16, 2007

  • 10 Reasons Why Twitter Will Help Improve Your Already Existing Social Networks

    Tags: Twitter, Social Computing, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Networks, Knowledge Management, KM, Knowledge Sharing, Collaboration, Remote Collaboration, Communities, SMS, Google Talk, Twitteroo, Twitterific, RSS, Syndication, Micro-blogging, Metablogging, Q&A, Web Presence, S...

    By • March 16, 2007

  • What Twitter is good for

    By Charlene LiTwitter has been hailed as "a total waste of time" to "the next generation IM". The site allows users to easily and frequently update what they are doing, through a Web browser, IM, or text message. It's been quite the buzz among early adopters -- Hitwise has some data on Twitter'...

    By • March 16, 2007

  • How to get started on Twitter a Communication Tool

    Twitter may be overhyped, but in the long run, it will be a normal communication tool. Some of the folks that I see using it are early adopters, some which are hyping it up and some which are not. It's a supplement to other forms such as blogging or IM. What's interesting, is that my network is...

    By • March 15, 2007

  • Viacom: "One Beeeeelion Dollars"

    Viacom sues YouTube for "One Beeeelion Dollars" reports the whole world on Techmeme. Yes, too late John, too late.I realize that Google has deep pockets, but trying to fight the intrawebs is going to be a tough battle. My CEO John Furrier has some interesting takes on this, he even talked to so...

    By • March 14, 2007

  • Social Media Now: Dere Oughta Be a Law!

    This isn't a defense of YouTube. Not a legal defense anyway.The Viacom/Google suit will revolve around how much control YouTube has over the content posted to it, whether YouTube's business was deliberately built on copyright infringement, and the nature of the prior negotiations between it &am...

    By • March 13, 2007

  • How can we capitalise on Twitter's addictiveness?

    This blog has been a little neglected in the last few days because I have been off playing around with researching Twitter.I'm not sure what Twitter is - it is like a micro-blogging tool. You can access it through IM, RSS, the web or your mobile (via SMS). Because of the SMS part you are limited...

    By • March 13, 2007

  • Nickelodeon's winning user-generated content strategy

    by Josh BernoffSmart moves over at MTV Networks.First they discussed a strategy to embrace lots of content sites based on user generated content at MTV. Need to hear more about this to understand it.Now Broadcasting & Cablesays that Nickelodeon (also part of MTV Networks) will add its secon...

    By • March 12, 2007

  • How MySpace can Take on Ning

    There have been some interesting reactions to Ning's new business plan. Last week, Ning switched from a hosted apps company to that provides an instant social network.www.tribe.net did this 5 years ago. The New York Times says that Cisco is about to buy Tribe.The problem with Ning's closed soci...

    By • March 9, 2007

  • Will News take over MySpace News?

    From Terry Heaton's PoMo blog comes word that MySpace â€" the 800-pound gorilla of social networking â€" will soon be launching a Digg-style news aggregation service of some kind. Is that a good thing? It's certainly interesting, and I would expect Digg to be worried about the prospect. Whether...

    By • March 9, 2007

  • The Problem with Social Media Networks

    I've been on Twitter for a few weeks and have shared a few interesting pieces of info and learned quite a bit, in fact, it's a great way to learn about people's media consumption diets (here's mine) as they're sharing in real time what they are listening to, reading, or interacting with.Damon B...

    By • March 5, 2007

  • Want to See who is Single on Facebook?

    Want to know who of your Facebook friends are single? You can see all a complete list, with percentages, by clicking here.Thanks to Mashable! for the tip on this one. Share This link to original post

    By • Feb. 26, 2007

  • Coke, Snowboarding and Social Networks: What's the Connection?

    The above commercial for Coke Zero features an elderly man with his grandson drinking a Coke. Believing what he is drinking is the "same Coke" he has drank for years, the grandfather doesn't understand that this particular beverage is actually a new version of Coke. The grandson lets him go off...

    By • Feb. 24, 2007

  • Teasing the Audience - IBM Lotus Connections and IBM Lotus Sametime Videos Now on YouTube

    Tags: IBM, Lotus, IBM Lotus Connections, Connections, Lotus Sametime, Sametime, Social Computing, Social Networking, Social Software, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, KM, Communities, Collaboration, Real-Time Collaboration, YouTube, VideoOne of the key challenges ahead for any par...

    By • Feb. 20, 2007

  • YouTube vs. The Media World: Mutually Assured Destruction

    The Wall Street Journal reports that Google's YouTube division is under attack from a coalition of mainstream media companies in the escalating struggle for a share of revenue from the video-sharing site. Driving the latest flare-up is testimony by a former Google employee that the company earn...

    By • Feb. 12, 2007

  • Vote for Best Use of Social Media In Super Bowl 2007

    Great first half, boring second half, but fun time over at Brian Solis tonight for the game. The ads were ok, nothing really outstanding, though there were a few gems that got everyone laughing (and a few people cried for the robot who lost his job - or was that a shebot?). Regardless, we are h...

    By • Feb. 5, 2007