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Two weeks ago, we ran an excerpt from a piece the Village Ventures partner Bo Peabody wrote for the Washington Post about how Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks would always be lousy businesses. Bo brings an interesting perspective to this argument, given that he founded and ran community-site Tripod in the late 1990s. Bo's piece generated many questions, from us and others. Happily, he had a more complete version on hand that answers many of them. Bo answers some specific questions about Facebook and Twitter at the end. But first, here's his entire argument.
Facebook And Twitter Will Always Be Crappy Businesses
Twitter has begun rolling out location-based trending topics. The product is officially called Local Trends . In a statement to us, Twitter said the following: “We’re rolling out local trends to 1 percent of users today, but we’ll share more information when it reaches a larger audience hopefully sometime next week. We’ll keep you posted when that happens.” The pictures below, courtesy of @lisabarone , show the new feature in all of its glory.
BREAKING: Twitter Launches Location-Based Trending Topics
Back in March 2009 a trio of MySpace execs -COO Amit Kapur , SVP Steve Pearman and SVP Jim Benedetto – left to begin working on a new startup . In May we learned that the company, then called Blue Rover Labs, had raised $10 million in funding . We also heard a few details about what the startup might be about: Today the company, now called Gravity , is launching into private beta. At a high level Gravity is an evolution on forums (vBulletin, phpBB, etc.) and groups (Yahoo Groups, Google Groups, etc.) services, which haven’t evolved much over the last decade.
Exclusive: Ex-MySpace Execs Launch Gravity Into Private Beta
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Social Media Examiner, Your Guide to the Social Media Jungle
Does your business have a blog? They refuse to tell consumers the answers to the questions they most want answered. And it is because of this approach we so often hear the phrase, “Yeah, our company tried blogging, but it didn’t work for us.”
Hello, old friends. I am back from dark months of data mining, here now to present my ores. To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com , analyzing three primary things:
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures « OkTrends
HarperCollins Debuts Inkpop, An Interactive Writing Platform For
News Corp-owned HarperCollins this morning put out a release about the launch of Inkpop.com , an interactive writing platform for teens. Which caught us off guard, because the U.S. publisher had already soft-launched the website on its Authonomy blog on November 24, 2009. Anyway: Inkpop is a project from HarperTeen , HarperCollins Publishers’ teen publishing unit. The platform aims to attract young readers and writers with a combination of community publishing features, user-generated content, and social networking elements. In addition, the company has engaged a group of international HarperCollins editors and authors to function as some sort of ‘editorial board’ whose job it is to review the site’s top five monthly selections, provide teens with feedback and mentorship opportunities, while also considering their work for publication.
Social Is the Top Priority for Marketers in 2010 [STATS]
Money spent on social media-related advertising is already expected to grow significantly this year, and now we also know that the medium is considered the top priority in the digital space according to a survey of senior marketers. The research, published today in eMarketer, shows that 45.4% of respondents considered social a ‘top priority’ while another 42.2% deemed it ‘important’. That narrowly beat out digital infrastructure for the top spot, with other marketing tactics like search, mobile, and blogger outreach trailing significantly. Here are the full results: Elsewhere, eMarketer reports on the metrics that marketers care most about, and the results support the notion that the page view is declining in relevance.The 5 Social Media Tools Small Businesses Need Right Now : The W
e-Mergence Consultant What social media tools are early adopters raving about so far in 2010? Foursquare is a mobile app that allows you to check-in with your friends when you arrive at a certain location. Blippy is an online tool that tracks your purchases and shares them with your personal network. Layar is an augmented reality (AR) browser that makes it easy to create AR experiences for handheld devices. However, you can forget you ever heard of any of these services because if you’re a small business kicking off your online marketing strategy, there are five tools that will get you pointed in the right direction.
Google has kept Social Search pretty much hidden from the general public, choosing to make it an opt-in Google Labs feature. Today, however, Google is pushing the feature to beta status and turning it on for all signed-in English Googlers. You may recall that Google Social Search is a standard search results page add-on that displays socially relevant content from people in your online social circle, as determined by your Google Profile.