Posted on October 30, 2007 by John Breslin
I’ve just read Chris Horn’s article entitled “The Long Tail Wags” which was inspired by a recent conference I participated in. His post describes how commercial organisations can benefit from and add value to the global Web 2.0-using community.
There are some interesting observations on risks and opportunities associated with the large quantities of user-generated [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2007 by John Breslin
(I got my invite today to buy a Chumby, but apparently they don’t do shipping outside the US.)
Here’s an extract from the Wikipedia definition if you haven’t already heard about them:
Chumby is a consumer product created by Chumby Industries slated to go on sale in November of 2007. It is designed as an [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2007 by John Breslin
Eric Schmidt, speaking at Google’s Zeitgeist conference recently said: “People don’t appreciate how many page views on the Internet are in social networks. It is very real. It’s a very real phenomenon.”
It’d be interesting to know just what proportion of ALL page views do go to SNSs. I’m still quoting last November’s [...]
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Posted on October 25, 2007 by John Breslin
In a September article from Wired entitled “Beware These Six Lamest Social Networks“, Matthew Honan lists some of his least favourite social networking services (SNSs). These happen to be niche SNSs, and although he sees little reason for their existence, I would strongly disagree. As long as a niche SNS or community site [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2007 by John Breslin
At the 2007 Web 2.0 Summit today, Radar Networks are officially announcing the invite-only beta version of Twine, a new service that uses the power of Semantic Web to enable an intelligent way of sharing, organising and finding information.
During today’s 4 PM panel (that also features Powerset’s Barney Pell, Metaweb’s Daniel Hillis and Web [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2007 by John Breslin
There has been some blog comment ‘promotional marketing’ going on for a new directory specifically for Web 2.0 sites called “Think Web 2.0″ (due to the language used on the site, I believe it may be from France, but the WHOIS shows a private registration).
The site allows users to submit sites to the directory, [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2007 by John Breslin
Here are some interesting links I’ve come across in the past few days related to social networks and their applications in enterprise / business scenarios.
The water cooler is now on the Web
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_40/b4052072.htm
The expanding world of social networking
http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=4247
Social networking: a time waster or the next big thing in collaboration?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201808149
Social networks may become interoperable
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201808173
Business faces up to [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2007 by John Breslin
According to figures from comScore, the United Kingdom was the top social media consumer in Europe during August, with 25 million unique visitors using social media sites (equivalent to 78 percent of the UK’s online population). The Europe-wide social media user figures are 127 million unique visitors in August (56 percent of the EU’s [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2007 by John Breslin
It must be acquisition season: Google yesterday announced that they have acquired microblogging service Jaiku. Jaiku, founded by Jyri Engestrom (whose post on object-centered sociality I’ve referenced more than once!) and Petteri Koponen, is a direct competitor to Twitter, another popular microblogging service from the US.
Here is a copy of the blog announcement from [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2007 by John Breslin
The Microsoft and NBC Universal News joint venture MSNBC has acquired the Newsvine community of citizen journalists for an undisclosed sum.
Newsvine, based in Seattle, publishes stories from both the mainstream media and a community of users together on the site. Users can vote on their news stories of interest, similar to the Digg [...]
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