Music. Marketing. Social-shopping. The care and feeding of social media’s three classes: Creators, I’m particularly interested in social media sites with traction focused on topics appealing to endemic advertiers.
Social media sites because of their extraordinary ability to grow without incurring marketing costs, and endemic advertisers because of their willingess to pay double digit RPMs to reach that audience. Global Readers' Challenge. The Latest News Headlines—Your Vote Counts. If someday we have a world without journalists, or at least without editors, what would the news agenda look like?
How would citizens make up a front page differently than professional news people? If a new crop of user-news sites—and measures of user activity on mainstream news sites—are any indication, the news agenda will be more diverse, more transitory, and often draw on a very different and perhaps controversial list of sources, according to a new study. The report, released by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), compared the news agenda of the mainstream media for one week with the news agenda found on a host of user-news sites for the same period. In a week when the mainstream press was focused on Iraq and the debate over immigration, the three leading user-news sites—Reddit, Digg and Del.icio.us—were more focused on stories like the release of Apple’s new iphone and that Nintendo had surpassed Sony in net worth, according to the study.
Some key findings include: Muhammad Saleem Interview - Social Media Expert. If Enterprise 2.0 Fits, Buy It. Remember the web 2.0 bandwagon we discussed earlier?
According to a recent report released by Gartner, that same bandwagon is going to need its own jet in about four year's time. “The Emerging Enterprise Social Software Marketplace” projected that by 2011 “the social software market will grow from US$ 226 million in 2007 to more than US$ 707 million.” From blogs and wikis to social software platforms; to bookmarking, communities of practice, discussion forums, expertise location and information feeds, enterprise and Web 2.0 investments are exploding.
Smug Alert now in effect for all parts of Old Media: Bloggers wh. Who is Sick? With the introduction of the Mac, most people have been replacing their personal computers with these new products from Apple.
This will certainly benefit Apple. However, you need to protect your computer against the apparent criminal malware attacks that are likely to follow shortly. To do this, you obviously need to learn some tips on Mac protection. Notwithstanding, the best tactics revolve around using antivirus protection, improving on the app features and paying more attention to all operating system updates. Earthquake Hazards Program » Did You Feel It? Discussing Social Media. This post is in lieu of Powerpoint to introduce the Defining Social Media panel at BlogOn tomorrow with Dan Gillmor, James Currier, Reid Hoffman, Michael Sikillian and Jim Spohrer.
How We Got Here The Internet has always facilitated conversations and augmented relationships. When a critical mass of participation is gained, cooperation ensues and simple tools have complex results. The earliest innovators in this adoption lifecycle were geeks and hackers. Put enough of them together and you get a new mode of production to disrupt the software industry and enable a new phase of growth — open source. What we are witnessing is segments of early providers and early adopters form previously unrepresented networks and apply participatory technologies to disrupt industries. Social media are another example of the demand side supplying itself. Landscape There is little point in defining Social Software, Media, Search, Computing or Networking, except that new language parallels innovation. Pandora adds social features - Lifehacker. Gabbly - gabbly.com. Chatsum.
Amp; The Social Music Revolution. From Rocketboom to ABC. Video blogger Amanda Congdon is the latest "cewebrity" to jump to mainstream media; an industry is forming to help others follow her lead Internet celebrity Amanda Congdon just finished broadcasting her cross-country relocation from New York to L.A. on the World Wide Web.
Now she is making another move—this one from online to on air. The former host of Rocketboom, one of the most popular video blogs on the Web, with roughly 211,000 daily viewers, has a new gig as a contributor for Disney's (DIS) ABC network. Congdon will regularly appear on the network's 24-hour digital channel ABC News Now and occasionally appear as a correspondent on the network's TV news broadcasts. Why Online Video Sites Are Hot Target. As the Internet snaps to life with homemade movies, TV shows, and other forms of video, companies that offer online video are seeing the value of their businesses surge.
How much their value is rising, however, is becoming a topic of increasingly hot debate, among moguls in Hollywood, entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, and investors in New York. Mark Cuban, the tech entrepreneur and owner the Dallas Mavericks, said on Sept. 29 that anyone who buys YouTube, one of the most popular video sites, is a "moron. " His comments came the same week that analyst Jordan Rohan of RBC Capital Markets argued that MySpace, the social networking site that generates a huge volume of video traffic, could be worth $15 billion in three years. At its heart, this debate is over what role these Internet video companies will play in the media world—bit players, important supporting actors, or the new media stars.
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Wired 14.07: People Power. Blogs, user reviews, photo-sharing – the peer production era has arrived.
By Chris AndersonPage 1 of 1 First, steam power replaced muscle power and launched the Industrial Revolution. Then Henry Ford’s assembly line, along with advances in steel and plastic, ushered in the Second Industrial Revolution. Next came silicon and the Information Age. Each era was fueled by a faster, cheaper, and more widely available method of production that kicked efficiency to the next level and transformed the world. Story Tools Story Images Click thumbnails for full-size image: AOLpsycho. ComBOTS.