Powerful Groups for the New Social Era Quora: Una Red Social para responder tus preguntas Durante el último mes se ha hablado muchísimo de la nueva sensación en Social Media: Quora. Algunos hasta la han calificado como el nuevo Twitter. Quora es una red social basada en un esquema sencillísimo: tú escribes una pregunta, sobre cualquier tema o área de conocimiento y casi de inmediato puedes recibir respuestas de otros usuarios desde prácticamente cualquier parte del mundo. Estrictamente hablando Quora no es nueva, fue creada a finales de 2009 por el ex CTO de Facebook Adam D’Angelo y Charlie Cheever creador del Facebook Connect; se había mantenido en versión beta, accesible sólo por medio de invitación hasta diciembre pasado. Una vez abierta y en gran parte gracias al impulso de un post de Robert Scoble Quora saltó a la fama. ¿Cómo funciona Quora? ¿Por qué tanto ruido sobre Quora? ¿Tiene alguna desventaja? La clasificación de las respuestas se basa en los votos de los miembros, más que en la relevancia basada en algoritmos, como lo hace Google.
Rumours rumours... Yahoo Closing Buzz, Traffic APIs – Maybe Delicious & AltaVista News is traveling fast about a leaked slide from a Yahoo “all hands” meeting earlier this week that listed several products — including Delicous and AltaVista — to be “sunsetted.” Yahoo confirms that Yahoo Buzz will be closed, as will the Traffic APIs. Delicious seems likely to go, too. Here’s the statement we received from Yahoo: Part of our organizational streamlining involves cutting our investment in underperforming or off-strategy products to put better focus on our core strengths and fund new innovation in the next year and beyond. I asked again if this included Delicious and was told: We’re not commenting on Delicious specifically at this point. The Sunset Slide The news appears to have been broken first by Eric Marcoullier, who tweeted out a picture from an internal slideshow that was given to Yahoo employees: You can see a larger version of this here. Can’t wait to find out how you got the web cast. Goodbye To Yahoo Buzz So Long, AltaVista & AllTheWeb See You, MyBlogLog
chi.mp - All your stuff in one place that YOU own Facebook as a Learning Platform Facebook seems to be coming up everywhere the past few weeks. The most recent, which finally got me to post, was a Stephen Downes post - I'm Majoring in Facebook, How about You? He points us to a Fortune Magazine article that describes a Stanford class being offered by BJ Fogg that studies Facebook as a platform: "Facebook is the most convenient and respectable way to feel connected to friends, get updated on existing friends, find new people, build relationships and express identities." Students, however, seem more interested in cashing out. The class has each student creating applications in Facebook and presenting to potential investors. Why is Facebook so hot right now? Facebook is a pretty simple application with fairly standard social network functionality. It's mostly some pretty simple activities. What I've found interesting is that I now commonly use LinkedIn to find interesting people, but often use Facebook to communicate with them. So, why is it hot?
Daniel Solove Daniel J. Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is a Senior Policy Advisor at Hogan Lovells. He is also the founder of TeachPrivacy, a company that provides privacy and data security training programs to businesses, schools, healthcare institutions, and other organizations. Professor Solove is co-reporter of the American Law Institute's Restatement of Information Privacy Principles. An internationally known expert in privacy law, Solove has been interviewed and quoted by the media in several hundred articles and broadcasts, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, the Associated Press, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and NPR. He has written 9 books and more than 50 law review articles in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, NYU Law Review, Michigan Law Review, U. His book, The Future of Reputation, won the 2007 McGannon Award.
Wall.fm - Social Network Builder | Create Social Network Free Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes] For a couple of days now, we’ve been hearing rumors that the Yahoo layoffs included the entire Delicious team. Now Former Yahoo employee and Upcoming founder Andy Baio has tweeted out the above Yahoo! product team meeting slide that seems to show that Yahoo! is either closing or merging the social bookmarking service as well as Upcoming, Fire Eagle, MyBlogLog and others. In some kind of weird founder solidarity, the slide was originally posted on Twitter by MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier. Listed under the ominous “Sunset” are: Delicious, Altavista, MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Under “Merge” are: Upcoming, FoxyTunes, Sideline, FireEagle, Yahoo Events and Yahoo People Search. It also looks like sundry Yahoo properties like Yahoo Deals and Yahoo Calendar will be made into features. Delicious, MyBlogLog and Upcoming have been somewhat neglected since being acquired by Yahoo and founders Joshua Schachter, Marcoullier and Baio have all moved on to do other (more successful) things.
Ning Fails at Free Social Networking | Epicenter Ning co-founder Marc Andreessen promised Ning network creators they would be able to port their networks elsewhere. Now, they may have good reason to do so. Ning, a brainchild of Netscape bazillionaire Marc Andreessen that was designed to let anyone make a social network about anything for free, won’t do it anymore. Each of the service’s 2.3 million networks’ users will disappear unless its creator either pays Ning or migrate the network to another platform. So much for “free” as the future of business — as far as Ning goes, anyway. The company accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from investors, and they apparently want more of a return than Ning is able to provide as a free service. We are going to change our strategy to devote 100 percent of our resources to building the winning product to capture this big opportunity. Once again — see Tripod, Imeem, etc. — users of a web service have had the rules switched on them once they began relying on a service. There will be now. See Also:
The Bid To Keep Del.icio.us It was announced via several sources (including former Yahoo! employee and Upcoming founder Andy Baio's twitter) on December 17, 2010 that Yahoo! would either be shutting down or merging the social bookmarking service Del.icio.us. Links 5 Brutal Facts About Building A Successful Website How many website owners have said this to you? “I don’t get it! I am writing killer content on my blog, but don’t understand why my site is not building traffic or authority within my niche! As a reader of this blog, I am sure you come across many individuals like this. The Truth Will Set You Free Here are the brutal facts that you must know, if you want to solve this problem for yourself and for others that you work with. Brutal Fact #1: Creating high-value content for your website is only one integral part to creating a successful internet marketing and website traffic driving strategy. If you believe that only writing content on your blog will effectively bring traffic and links, you are sadly mistaken. Here is some advice… Stop listening to those individuals spreading the adage “If you build it they will come” because it isn’t doing you any favors. Here’s the truth… Think about the exact step-by-step process you want your visitor to take after reading your blog post. Summary Similar Posts: