FriendFeed - Competitors. FriendFeed is a service which, instead of layering a meta-network on top of all your other social networks, will create a news feed incorporating them all much like the Facebook news feed. It’s a simple idea that isn’t too difficult or bothersome for social network users to adopt. The goal of FriendFeed is to make content on the Web more relevant and useful for you by using your existing social network as a tool for discovering interesting information. You get a customized feed made up of the content that your friends shared — from news articles to family photos to interesting links and videos.
And your friends get their customized feeds, full of the cool stuff that you’ve shared. Users tell the feed which networks they belong to (Facebook, Digg, Last.fm, etc.) and FriendFeed personalizes your data feed with info from each of the sites. FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook in August 2009. Financials People Competitors. A Journey In Social Media: When Your Corporate Social Platform Becomes Mission Critical. Life is full of learning experiences, and we had one yesterday. A minor patch to our environment exposed underlying database corruption, which resulted in our internal social platform being unavailable for almost a full business day. The backups? They were corrupt as well. Thanks to the exceptional effort of everyone involved, nothing significant was really lost. Sure, there are lessons to be learned on proper support practices for important applications (and our social platform is now one of those), but there are other lessons to be learned as well.
First, A Bit Of Perspective I've been selling to mission-critical IT environments for most of my adult career. I understand what can happen, how it happens, and what should be done about it. And, believe me, in terms of "bad IT days", data corruption is one of the biggies. So, what lessons did we learn? #1 -- The Impact Was Stunning Len wrote a great post on "The Air That I Breathe", and I think that's a great analogy. We didn't do that. Visualize your LinkedIn network. Beyond LinkedIn: 7 Degrees' visual, open social graph as business tool - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog. A former Yahoo exec gets a funding injection for his plans to take on LinkedIn with a social graph that's more Google than (old school) AOL. 7 Degrees, a developer of business applications based on the social graph, today announced that it has raised $6.8 million in new VC funding.
Rho Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backers vSpring Capital and Parkview Ventures. The company's flagship product is PeopleMaps, which leverages existing relationships (Facebook friends, email contacts, work history, etc.) in order to make new introductions. For example, imagine I'm trying to sell widgets to Cisco (CSCO). Yes, this does sound a bit like LinkedIn. Fortune: Beyond display, what is the primary difference between what you're doing and what LinkedIn is doing? Sheehan: It's really about the comprehensiveness of the search. LinkedIn is great.
The other thing about LinkedIn is that a lot of people have just started connecting to anyone who asks, which dilutes the value of the service. Sprinklr-Social CRM,Enterprise social media solution,Social media dashboard,Corporate social media platform. Blogtronix - The Enterprise Social Platform. Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software. DJ Patil explaining LinkedIn social graph visualizations. Changing To-Do Lists To To-Be Lists.
Right now, you are probably walking around with some sort of list detailing the things you need to do, tasks you need to complete, and strategies you need to implement for the coming year. To-Do lists are great for keeping us organized and helping us get through our busy days, but do they really help us accomplish creating the image, person, and character needed to run our business or live our lives more successfully? What would happen if we turned that TO DO List into a TO BE list? What if at the end of that busy week, we could look back at all the things we accomplished that helped us discover our strengths, foster important relationships, and live a more balanced and joyful life? ‘Being’ and ‘doing’ are inseparable aspects of the human condition and attention must be paid to both, so I’m giving this a shot in 2011.
It is not complete by any means, but here’s my start: To Be List -January 2-January9, 2011: What will your TO BE be in 2011? Written By AngelaMaiers. [2011 trends] Social channels: Opportunities and threats for media industry. LONDON, UK: Publishers, studios and broadcasters need to seize the opportunities presented by the growth of social media and video on mobile devices in 2011, according to Ovum, one of the Datamonitor group of companies.
However publishers et al should also be aware of the long-term threat these channels pose to their share of audience and advertising budget, finds the independent technology analyst. In a new report* Ovum states that opportunities lie in using social media as a new channel to engage directly with the audience, derive greater insight into their preferences and demography, and to directly capitalise them through products such as casual games or virtual goods. Combined with the growth in video viewing on the latest generation of smartphones, this is an important method to get the attention of the highly specific audiences that advertisers are increasingly looking for. 'Social media presents a clear threat to traditional media' Increasing polarisation. 25 Enterprise Social Media Platforms/Companies To Be Aware Of.
Here is as comprehensive list of players in the enterprise social media space that I could compile. I selected them based on my own professional sense of what I thought was important in regards to what they brought to the table and for whom. Some are more platform based than others, but I thought all of them were very relevant to where we are as of today.
They are not in any particular order: KickApps Sparta Social Networks Metro Mojo Neighborhood America Small World Labs Select Minds Igloo Software Community Server Ramius Corespeed IHype Phpizabi Elgg Boonex Hivelive Lithium Clearspace Intronetworks Onesite Awareness Networks Mzinga Blogtronix Wordframe Bluepulse Ideastrom In conclusion, this list will expand and contract as conditions continue to evolve. Connect: Authored by: Marc Meyer Currently Marc is working with Accenture to raise awareness and drive engagement of the Accenture Interactive practice. See complete profile. List of Social Media Management Systems (SMMS) Pain: Social Media Teams Are Challenged To Respond To the Distributed Conversations I’m starting to get a few briefings and requests from strategists LaSandra Brill, about new technologies that enable social marketers to quickly manage, maintain, and conduct reporting on multiple channels.
The issue of lack of scale is resonating with social strategists –as a result, the market is developing new tools that will help them manage them. This is one component of Social CRM, which if you haven’t heard about, please read the report on the 18 use cases of Social CRM. (Update: This is only one software segment in the overall Social Business Stack, which you should first understand) Above is the full report, feel free to read, download and share. Update: Jan 5th, 2012. Definition: Social Media Management Systems are collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a disparate social media environment. Retired This vendors never want to market or went into deadpool.