Twocation. Google+ may outweigh LinkedIn, Twitter next year. By this time next year, could Google+ surpass LinkedIn, Twitter and MySpace to become the second most popular social networking service in the U.S? It could, says one study. With an estimated 16 million more U.S. online adults joining Google+ in the next year, the month-old social network could reach 22 percent penetration, according to the YouGov US Opinion Center (full data at bottom). That’s more than the 20 percent penetration expected to be seen by both LinkedIn and Twitter over the next 12 months.
Currently, with 25 million registered accounts, Google+ has 13 percent penetration. YouWeb has Myspace listed at 14 percent penetration, Twitter at 18 percent, LinkedIn at 19 percent and, well above the rest, Facebook at 71 percent. While it’d be significant enough to see Google+ rising above LinkedIn and Twitter, it’s worth noting that the networks experiencing the most casualties would actually be Myspace and Facebook. When Google Circles Collide. Editor’s note: Guest writer Rocky Agrawal blogs at reDesign and Tweets @rakeshlobster. I like to create. You can find content I’ve created on my own blogs, TechCrunch, Facebook, Twitter, flickr, Quora, EveryTrail, Namesake, Yelp, foursquare, YouTube, disqus, Kindle, FlyerTalk, and now Google+. I create more content than the vast majority of Internet users.
I actively think about how to create content and the right audiences for it. When I’m hiking, I take pictures of trailheads, forks and other things that are visually uninteresting. I also carry a GPS with me so I can precisely geotag each picture. I do it because it’s valuable to an EveryTrail user in determining how to hike the trail. Given the level of control that Google+ is offering, I should be thrilled with this great new tool. It solves the wrong problem, particularly with Google Circles, the Google+ feature that lets you share different things with different groups of people. Reaching the right audience Facebook. Worlds collide. ANALYSIS: Top 5 Features of Google's New Social Networking Tool that Could Take Down Facebook. Finally, online social networking is going to be not only about Facebook: The Google+ project, now available for testing, is Google's newly introduced way to connect with people online.
Google's timing for introducing a fresh experience in online social networking is impeccable. Two weeks ago, it was reported that Facebook was losing share in North America. If 2008 saw Facebook growing beyond industry expectations, 2011 is abuzz that saturated markets like the U.S. and Canada might be ready for something different and new. Top 5 features of Google+ Google's new project does look promising, with certain novel features. Google says the Hangout feature is similar to the effortless real-world experience of entering a pub and hanging out with friends, which doesn't require someone to come forward and ask the most awkward question to a group, So shall we hang out?
The +Mobile feature allows users to seamlessly upload photos from any device. New Data: Tweet Lots of Links to Get Followers. For more mythbusting and social media science, don’t forget to register for my Science of Social Media webinar. My effort to analytically study the unicorns-and-rainbows myth of “engaging in the conversation” started by looking at the relationship between the number of followers a user has and the percentage of their Tweets that are “@” replies. I found that highly followed users are less conversational than those with few followers. This time, I looked at the relationship between follower count and the percentage of a user’s tweets that contain links and are not replies.
Using a sample of random, recently active Twitter accounts, I found a strong correlation. As the amount of links a user tweets increases the number of followers they have also increases. The data is starting to mount to suggest that “engaging in the conversation” is a waste of time from a marketing and reach-building perspective, especially when compared to sharing content. Socialnomics: World of Mouth for Social Good. Are Facebook and Twitter now too mainstream to be cool? - TNW Social Media. Everybody loves to get behind the hot young start up and embrace it as if it is the greatest thing in the world since sliced bread. Turntable.fm and Instagram are the latest examples with people in-the-know shouting and screaming from the rooftops about how amazing they are.
When you see something special for the first time you just get that feeling in your stomach that you are in at the ground level and you are bursting with excitement waiting for the rest of the world to find out. People used to have that same feeling with Twitter and before that with Facebook. For a couple of years the online geeky community (I don’t say geeky in a negative way because I was one) knew about Twitter, understood its power and every piece of news coverage or mainstream attention was cheered as if we all owned shares in the company. Facebook was exclusive at the start too. Only my young cool in the know friends were on it for a couple of years. Bad Press No Longer The Underdogs. 5 Steps to Becoming a Twitter Champion. There are still a large number of folks who believe that Twitter is a very amateur and even entertaining task. After all, how hard could 140 characters be?
Who needs a strategy for telling people what you had for breakfast? Champion Tweeters think differently. They approach Twitter and their time in the Twitter community with a different behavior set, mindset and belief system. If you seek to be more successful on Twitter, reach out to more people, get noticed, and make a bigger impact; you must be willing and ready to think and act like a Twitter Champion! Here are 5 ways to get your Twitter Game on: 1. You’ll need the right support and equipment for: Even with the top of the line Twitter gear; your mental fortitude will determine your power and strength. In the Twitterverse; faith is greater than fear; positivity greater than negativity; and inspiration will get you farther than intelligence. 2. Twitter is a full contact sport. Don’t wait for people to come to you; go to them. 3. 4. The need for an Alternative to Facebook. This Guy's Startup Wants To Be The First Facebook Competitor, And He Has Big Money Behind It.
Altly - A Facebook Alternative. A Year After Diaspora, Another “Facebook Alternative” Emerges: Altly. It was almost exactly a year ago that Diaspora started raising money on Kickstarter. A few weeks later, they had raised $200,000 from nearly 6,500 backers. Why so much excitement? Because Diaspora was aiming to be a Facebook alternative. That hasn’t exactly worked out. At least not yet. But now another startup is about to give it a go, Altly. So why will this one be any different than Diasopra? World Map of Social Networks. January 2017: a new edition of my World Map of Social Networks, showing the most popular social networking sites by country, according to Alexa & SimilarWeb traffic data (caveat: it’s hard to understand the impact of Google+ because it is part of Google domain traffic). There are a lot of news since last January: Facebook is still the leading social network in 119 out of 149 countries analyzed, but it was stopped in 9 territories by Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte and Linkedin.
It’s interesting to see that in some countries, like Botwana, Mozambique, Namibia, Iran e Indonesia, Instagram wins and that some African territories prefer LinkedIn. Overall LinkedIn conquers 9 countries, Instagram 7, meanwhile VKontakte and Odnoklassniki (part of the same group Mail.ru) grow up in Russian territories. In China QZone still dominates the Asian landscape with 632 million users and Japan is the only country where Twitter is the leader. But what’s going on behind the first place? InShare1,047 inShare1,047. Google gives Les Paul doodle a permanent home. The massive success and popular approval of a Google Doodle dedicated to guitar hero and inventor Les Paul has led to Google giving the interactive doodle a permanent home.
The Google Doodle shaped as a series of guitar strings that lets users play and record their own tunes now has a permanent address. Popular demand for the doodle inspired Google to keep it online for an extra day on 10 June. However, now it has a permanent home. The doodle was made with a combination of JavaScript, HTML5 Canvas (used in modern browsers to draw the guitar strings), CSS, Flash (for sound) and tools like the Google Font API, goo.gl and App Engine.
The musical doodle went online on 9 June in honour of the late Lester William Polsfuss’ 96th birthday. John Kennedy. The Intersection of Yammer and Innovation. This is a guest post by Colin Crabtree, Account Manager at the IT company Gijima. Colin has been in the IT industry for over 30 years in various positions and is currently involved in a number of initiatives at Gijima to promote and support innovation in the workspace. Background I work for Gijima (Pty) Ltd. a large IT company in Johannesburg South Africa. About a year ago, the company realized for a number of market related reasons that it needed to shake itself down and redefine where it wanted to be in 2025 in order to remain relevant and one of the leaders in the South African and a player in the Global IT market. Thus was borne its client centricity program to move away from being a technology focused company to a client centric company.
At that stage we had already deployed Yammer as an internal social media platform to test its capabilities as a business tool with no preconceived ideas as to its benefits, challenges or usefulness. Embracing Yammer Endorsing Yammer inShare22. Judd Antin - Research. In this project I examine the influence of information about competence on contributions in online social dilemmas.
In any real world situation, individuals will vary in terms of their competence, where competence is defined as having sufficient knowledge or skills to act effectively in a given context. Once we challenge the assumption that all individuals are fully and equally competent, perceptions of competence become essential influences to behavior in social dilemma situations. Precisely how perceptions of competence figure into decisions to contribute or free-ride has largely been neglected as a topic of study, however. This is the main focus of the proposed research. This multi-method study will examine the relationships between competence beliefs and contribution behavior using laboratory experiments and qualitative interviews. Semantic Web 3.0. Eric Schmidt, Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0. Kevin Kelly - "Web 3.0" John Breslin | Internet users prefer social networking as their communication platform: Blue Coat. Security by CBR Staff Writer| 24 February 2011 Social network phishing and click-jacking attacks were the two most common types of attacks Popularity of Webmail continues to decline as there is an overwhelming increase of shift of to social networking as the communication platform of choice for Internet users, accordin to the Blue Coat Web Security Report that examines Web behavior and the malware to which users are most frequently exposed.
The report analysed Web requests from the Blue Coat WebPulse service. The report revealed some of the most surprising Web usage trends. Personal Pages/Blogs, Chat/Instant Messaging and Email were the second, third and fourth most requested subcategories of Social Networking, respectively. At the same time, Webmail was the 17th most requested Web category for 2010, falling from ninth in 2009, and fifth in 2008. The report also revealed the biggest shifts for 2010. Share: Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web. Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy. Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks. Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself. Nicholas Christakis: How social networks predict epidemics.