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Social Network Failure: What Happened to MySpace? | .eduGuru
It seems like forever ago when I last wrote about MySpace on .eduGuru . Actually it was over a year and a half ago when I was exploring Social Media Sites for Higher Education Marketing , but one quote still stands out as an accurate way to describe MySpace. ”MySpace is like the wild wild west or Las Vegas of social media, dirty and ghetto” Yup, that quote pretty much summed up MySpace a year and a half ago and now it’s even worse. It’s like an abandoned Detroit neighborhood.
There’s now a website mocking Google Wave’s issues, called Easier To Understand Than Wave [background sound alert] (a site made by a Facebook employee, as Techcrunch reports). Ex Microsoft guy Robert Scoble also criticized Wave recently, calling it a “productivity sink” if you’re trying to communicate.
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March 15th Experian® Hitwise®, the online measurement service from Experian Marketing Services, has announced the launch of AudienceViewSM, a new audience targeting service that provides retailers with a comprehensive view of demographic, psychographic, transactional and behavioral insights on their target consumers or advertising audiences. December 21st
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The most recent Advertising Week focused relentlessly on social media. I saw this firsthand as co-emcee of OMMA Global . I also saw it as an attendee of several other events. But for all the excitement and expert pontification, most people are getting it wrong. The fundamental problems and opportunities of social media don't lie in creating Twitter profiles or Facebook pages.
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The Top 100 Colleges on Twitter
As Twitter use has exploded, it has become an increasingly important communications tool for organizations of all kinds. To understand the effect it has had on educational institutions, UniversitiesAndColleges.org has conducted a study on the Twitter usage of the top 100 colleges and universities in the United States.
Posted by Suw Charman-Anderson I’ve been thinking a lot lately about jargon, especially in the field of social media. As someone who’s watched the social media market grow up over the last seven years, I’ve also watched the field-specific terminology flourish and I’ve seen it frustrate and flummox people too. Early in my social media career I had a client who could not explain what their company did without using huge amount of what was then brand-new terminology. It was a problem, because if you can’t explain to potential new clients what you do and how you do it in words they can understand, it can make it difficult to close new deals.
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Because an underlying karma score is a number, product managers often misunderstand the interaction between numerical values and online identity. The thinking goes something like this: In our application context, the users' value will be represented by a single karma, which is a numerical value. There are good, trustworthy users and bad, untrustworthy users, and everyone would like to know which is which, so we will display their karma.
Noah Berger for The New York Times Tyler Kennedy, 9, uses YouTube to research school reports, guitar techniques and video games. Update | 12:00 p.m. Changed language to clarify that some figures referred to billions of views, not billions of people. Pretty much everyone knows that YouTube is the king of online video. Indeed, comScore recently said that in August, YouTube surpassed 10 billion views in a single month in the United States for the first time. That made YouTube nearly 20 times more popular than its nearest rival in online video, Microsoft , which showed just 547 million videos.
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MediaShift . 5Across: How to Deal with Technology Overload | PBS
This episode of 5Across is brought to you by the Knight News Challenge, a 5-year, $25 million contest to spur innovation in news. If you'd like to apply to win a grant of up to $5 million for an open source project, apply here by October 15.Social Business mobile edition
Sears Holdings Corporation (SHC) has been a silent giant in social media for some time. Its online community now boasts more than 300,000 users and it was one of the first major retailers to adopt OpenID to connect MySears.com directly from major social networks. The company has been injecting social into most of its brands, which, in addition to well-known Sears, include KMart, Lands End and Orchard Supply Hardware. It hasn’t always been a pretty story, as Sears has suffered some online woes as well, most recently a defaced group of product pages on the Sears Web site. However, the company credits an existing social media presence with helping them deal with that crisis swiftly by allowing immediate engagement with its customer community.Gravity7: Social Interaction Design by Adrian Chan: Realtime str
All social media involve a dislocation that de couples the act of communication or interaction from its artifact, which is a text or recording. This is a shame, in some respects, but one that creates possibilities that wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the medium. The medium allows us to be always here and now but visible elsewhere anytime. It has a built in “anyplace, anytime.” This anyplace, anytime is brought into focus by each of us when we use social media. For us it’s always now.The enterprise microblogging service Socialcast is getting some interesting analytical functions. Unlike the data you can get from Bitly (the closest most people get to seeing real analytics on microblogging), Socialcast's new Social Business Intelligence feature is designed to help the mucky-mucks in your company "understand the social dynamics or your organization," not just see traffic patterns. If your company uses the Socialcast service for more than just occasional hobbyist microblogging--that is, if whoever hooked up your company with Socialcast also set up the important features the service offers, like integration into CRM, wikis, employee blogs, and other internal systems--then there could be a rich stream of social data coming from the product.