State_of_csm_2011. Ten steps to see if you are in a bubble. Fred Wilson (who is a generally smart fellow and a VC) thinks, like we do, that we are in the early stages of a Frothy Period (never say Bubble, says Fred :0 ). He is on these videos on TechCrunch. Chris Dixon makes the point that its mainly people coming out of "Hot Stocks" (eg people coming out of Facebook to start Quora, get $85m valuation) and that the market isn't doing it for everyone. Then we have the Bubble Deniers - Other VC Roger Ehrenberg does a quick analysis of Groupon, Facebook, Twitter et al and concludes that, yup, they are correctly valued. So, we have Newton's Law of Bubble Declaration - For every bubble caller, there is an equal and opposite non-bubble caller. 1. By my reckoning we are on a Force 4, gusting 6 Bubble Inflation stage. Just to remind you - what a "Not Bubble" market looks like: Update - a few hours after this, I read TweetDeck has apparently been sold for $30 - 35m (not certain if its cash or stock).
Microvolunteering by The Extraordinaries - Team Volunteers. Why I Don’t Buy the Quora Hype. Let me start with a disclaimer: I am not writing this in my capacity as a university professor or researcher; I don’t claim to be an expert on social networking; and I will be happy to be proven wrong—I have no vested interest in the success or failure of Quora. And, given the fire I’ve already taken for tweeting an opinion that defies the Valley’s infinite wisdom, I know that this post will offend many in Silicon Valley—as did my piece on why I Craigslisted my iPads.
But I just don’t believe that Quora will “rule” or become anything like Facebook or Twitter. It has been a very nice private club; but it’s not for the general public. Quora is a new question-and-answer site on which a few notable members of Silicon Valley’s tech elite have expressed their opinions. The answer is simple: I think that Quora will continue to be an excellent resource if the same people who have been hyping it, and who have invested in it, keep posting their thoughtful answers. **Photo Credit: Andrew Fair. Marketing & Social Media. The Facebooks of China. The Trouble With Identity in a Cloud World [Video]: Tech News and Analysis « Clay Shirky.
Fifteen years ago, a research group called The Fraunhofer Institute announced a new digital format for compressing movie files. This wasn’t a terribly momentous invention, but it did have one interesting side effect: Fraunhofer also had to figure out how to compress the soundtrack. The result was the Motion Picture Experts Group Format 1, Audio Layer III , a format you know and love, though only by its acronym, MP3. The recording industry concluded this new audio format would be no threat, because quality mattered most. Who would listen to an MP3 when they could buy a better-sounding CD at the record store? If Napster had only been about free access, control of legal distribution of music would then have returned the record labels. How did the recording industry win the battle but lose the war?
The story the recording industry used to tell us went something like this: “Hey kids, Alanis Morisette just recorded three kickin’ songs! But who faces that choice? But you know what? Gmail: 20 nice features you should know | sickTEK.com – It's all about technology! Top 10 Social Media Blogs: The 2011 Winners! Social media is a big subject. If you’re looking for some reliable places to go for the best tips and social media tactics, look no further! Our second-annual contest generated more than 300 nominations. Our panel of social media experts carefully reviewed the nominees and finalists, analyzing the quality of their content, the frequency of posts and reader involvement (among other things). The following are the winners of Social Media Examiner’s Top 10 Social Media Blogs for 2011. If you’re looking to master all that social media has to offer, these rich blogs need to be at the top of your reading list.
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Wikipedia – an unplanned miracle | Clay Shirky. Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. That statement is both ordinary and astonishing: it's a simple reflection of its enormous readership; and yet, by any traditional view about how the world works, Wikipedia shouldn't even exist, much less have succeeded so dramatically in the space of a single decade. The cumulative effort of Wikipedia's millions of contributors means you are a click away from figuring out what a myocardial infarction is, or the cause of the Agacher Strip war, or who Spangles Muldoon was. This is an unplanned miracle, like "the market" deciding how much bread goes in the store. Wikipedia, though, is even odder than the market: not only is all that material contributed for free, it is available to you free; even the servers and system administrators are funded through donations.
Ten years ago today, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger were stuck trying to create Nupedia, an online encyclopedia with a seven-step publishing process. The State of the Internet in 2010. We are social / agence conversationnelle / agence médias sociaux.