Social Network Failure: What Happened to MySpace? 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. If you look at the below graph (click to view full size or follow the complete link to the left) from website analytics company Compete you will see how unique visitors to MySpace have pretty much flat lined over the last year while Facebook has jumped right over it. However, look how Facebook has flat lined the last few months… this might be another trend to watch if Facebook has finally hit its saturation point.
So What Did We Learn? I think the takeaways were many but here are a few I would note: Final Thoughts. Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh Takes Over Web With Blog Network - Adver. Understanding Google Wave... Understanding Google Wave... 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. [Thanks WebSonic.nl!] >> More posts Advertisement This site unofficially covers Google™ and more with some rights reserved.
Join our forum! Storytlr Blog | Storytlr will stop operating on December 31st 20. Experian Hitwise :: Facebook Visits Increased 194 Percent in Pas. The Top 100 Colleges on Twitter. In Social Media, Collaboration is King | Brian Solis - PR 2.0. InShare0 Guest post by Becky Carroll: Read her blog | Follow her on Twitter Source: Shutterstock In the past, it was somewhat difficult to have true customer conversations.
We were able to solicit customer feedback, but we weren’t always good at responding. The fact is, we didn’t have a good way to easily get back to customers with resolutions to problems or closure to suggestions. Customers would feel they were sending their comments and concerns into a “corporate black hole”, never to be seen or heard about again. Fast forward to the present. These customer-brand conversations have changed the game for many companies who were previously comfortable with just broadcasting information. Those of us who are customer-focused constantly remind marketing and PR teams that social media is not a campaign, it is a relationship.
Social media now enables brands to interact with many customers at a level that goes much deeper. Conversation without action can become shallow. One note of caution. Strange Attractor Blog Archive The curse of social media ja. 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. On the other hand when you are talking about new technology, ideas and concepts, sometimes you need new terms. There was no way to get around using the word “blog” (or “weblog”), for example, because existing terms like “website” or “web page” do not mean the same thing - a blog is distinctly different from a website or web page.
Building Web Reputation Systems: The Blog: The Dollhouse Mafia, 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.We should represent good actions as positive numbers and bad actions as negative, and we'll add them up to make karma.Good users will have high positive scores (and other users will interact with them), and bad users will have low negative scores (and other users will avoid them).
This thinking—though seemingly intuitive—is impoverished, and is wrong in at least two important ways. There can be no negative public karma-at least for establishing the trustworthiness of active users. YouTube: We’re Bigger Than You Thought - Bits Blog - N. Noah Berger for The New York TimesTyler 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. But on the third anniversary of its $1.65 billion deal to sell itself to Google, YouTube is saying, in a sense, you may be underestimating us. Actually, in a blog post penned by Chad Hurley, the co-founder and chief executive, the company said Friday that it was serving “well over 1 billion views a day,” so only it knows how many that is. So why did YouTube release these figures now?
That may be. Psychology of Technology: Relationships 2.0: How Technology is R. 5Across: How to Deal with Technology Overload. 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.
Good luck! There is a common thread in modern life that we are overwhelmed with the technology and media that were supposed to be making us more productive. A LexisNexis survey found that if you add up the time people spend using email, web browsers, instant messaging, and Microsoft Office, it comes to 15.9 hours per day. That’s extraordinary. So many of us are feeling overwhelmed by technology and are trying to deal with it. 5Across: Technology Overload! Guest Biographies Leif Hansen is the Chief Engagement Officer of Spark Interaction. Annalee Newitz is editor-in-chief of io9, a science and science fiction blog that gets over 3 million visitors a month. Dom Sagolla helped create Twitter. Deborah Schultz is an Internet-industry veteran and innovator. Social Business mobile edition. Petite Pictures: The 20 Microscopic Photo Competition Prizewinne.
Email Upping the ante on microscopic imaging, this reflected light picture of a rusted old coin is magnified 40x. It was taken by Havi Sarfaty of the Israel Veterinary Medical Association in Ramat-Gan, who also won sixth place.....[ More ] Upping the ante on microscopic imaging, this reflected light picture of a rusted old coin is magnified 40x. It was taken by Havi Sarfaty of the Israel Veterinary Medical Association in Ramat-Gan, who also won sixth place. [ Less ] [ Link to this slide ] HAVI SARFATY Give a Gift & Get a Gift - Free! 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. When I use twitter, I use it now. If I read your tweet, it’s now.
These different times become irrelevant to the medium, for each user’s activity makes them present. Media theory makes the observation that media, or mediated experiences, amplify along some axes of experience while bracketing out others. If each of us is in the now but in our own now, then the dislocation and de coupling of a tool like twitter is exacted on the time dimension. “Goes without saying.” Twitter while you work: Socialcast makes it good for your career. 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.
Socialcast SBI can tap into this data to identify, in broad strokes, three main types of people in your company: the information "brokers," the "connectors," and the "peripheral players. " Guru's, Experts Or Stupidity? | The Relationship Economy... It seems that terms like social media expert and guru are stirring lots of conversations.
Jason Falls, at socialmediaexplorer, wrote a post titled Enough With The Social Media Guru Attacks which he says “While I do agree with Leggio’s assessment that your social media “expert” should have case studies, proof points and successes that point to integrated wins with an overall marketing campaign, the truth is that limits the pool to about 3-4 dozen folks in the world. No one has been doing it that long and that successfully. We’re all learning as we go. Yeah, there are a few with some good proof points, but this world, as we know it, is 4-5 years old at best. And while the video (produced on pretty damn cool software by the way) was cleverly done by Markham Nolan and is a funny, playful look at the whole guru phenomenon, it undermines the credibility of anyone in the social media business by implying anyone can do this and do it well. No Attacks Just Stupidity Maybe my point is stupid. The End Of The Mac As We Know It - Forbes.com.
Social media's shining marketing moments - iMediaConnection. There's been a lot of negative press about social media marketing, everything from users not wanting to view it to companies not knowing how to create it and not being willing to spend on it. But the fact is, social media marketing is growing, and there are a number of executions that have generated success for the brands and the sites. iMedia Connection has spanned the spectrum of social media sites and found eight examples of marketing executions that truly shine. These efforts promote a range of products, from cellphones to soft drinks, and do so in a variety of ways that engage consumers, from entering contests to filling out polls. As you review the work described by the key marketers and social media providers below, you'll see there are many ways to get users to participate, enjoy the experience, and develop a positive image of the brand. What more could a marketer ask for?
LiveJournal Presented by: Anjelika Petrochenko, business development director Next page >> What Kind of Twitterer Are You? - Digits. The History and Evolution of Social Media. Social media has become an integral part of modern society. There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries. There are niche sites for virtually every special interest out there. There are sites to share photos, videos, status updates, sites for meeting new people and sites to connect with old friends. It seems there are social solutions to just about every need. In this article, we’ll review the history and evolution of social media from its humble beginnings to the present day. Precursors to Social Media Usernets Usenet systems were first conceived of in 1979 by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis.
Usenets have no centralized server or dedicated administrator, setting them apart from most BBSs and forums. Group sites such as Google Groups and Yahoo! BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems) The first BBSs came online in the late 70s. While there were legitimate BBSs, most were at least somewhat involved in illicit, illegal, or other shady practices. Online Services. Quickly view formatted PDFs in your search. Google search results sometimes include documents that were not originally formatted to be viewed in a web browser, such as PDFs. In the past, the only way to view these documents was to download them and open them in a separate viewer application. To provide an alternative, we made it possible to quickly and easily view these files as HTML right in a web browser by clicking "View as HTML.
" This was an improvement, but unfortunately the "View as HTML" option loses some of the formatting from the original PDF, such as graphics, tables, fonts and other elements. Today, we've added new links to "Quick View" PDFs in your browser with the formatting intact. The new links are based on the same technology that's available in Google Docs and Gmail, as well as to webmasters through the Google Docs viewer. We've been rolling this technology out to the search results page since July, and as of today we've added "Quick View" links to more than 50% of the PDFs in our index. The future of journalism: 3 Multimedia journalists to watch :: 1. Google Wave 101 - Wave - Lifehacker. The Top 10 Signs You’re A Twitter Addict. - Tremendous. "OMG you guys! I'm like totally on a bike right now. lolz" Twitter addiction is real.
And I know you’ve come to check if you have it. You’ve come to see if you’re normal. You’re not. Not normal. Think of what you just did. Like that? Climmer-clammer. The point is, you’re addicted. The question is, by how much? Peruse through these ten things. Unless you’re a dude. Dudes? Don’t giggle. At the end, tell your friends how many of these things you do and carry on with your addiction. I’ll be here, popping those bubbles you get when someone sends you a package. Ha! Package. Top ten signs of twitter addiction. 1. A “URL shrinker” takes a regular web address and shrinks it to something smaller. It’s good for Twitter because you have to squeeze things into 140 chars. So: turns into this: That’s all it does. But there’s a swelling population of tweeters who actually care about what URL shrinker they use. Ha! 2. 3. Questions (and Answers!) About the Federal Register - O'Rei. 25 Things You Must Know About How NASA Uses Twitter. Corporate Use of Social Media is Untapped as Most Lurk - Deloitt.
The 10 commandments of social optimisation (#SOCOP) | Blog | E. NSFW: When Social Networks are Blocked for Your Own Good | Brian. What Is The Cost Of Thinking? | The Relationship Economy...... Trendsmap Shows Twitter Trends Geographically | FlowingData. Facebook acknowledges glitch that blocks some user accounts | Ve. Social Business By Design 2.0. Gravity7: Social Interaction Design by Adrian Chan: Brands, and. MySpace Partners with UStream for Embedded Live Video Chat with. The World's Best Companies.
Social Media Will Not Replace Search. Track Worldwide Firefox Downloads. Below The Topline: Women’s Growing Economic Power | Ni. Enough With The Social Media Guru Attacks Already | Social Media. YouTube - Elephant Birth - The Dramatic Struggle for Life. Facebook Cracks Down on Devs, Suspends Apps Over Bad Ads. Skype Starts to Roll Out Those Click-To-Call Ads.