(Note: This is a post submitted by BNET member Michael Mattis. To submit your own post, click here.) What a difference three years and the global spread of social media technology make. Back in 2005, Prospect, a British center-left magazine of ideas and culture,...
Users seeking celebrity news and content want something more, something deeper that they can socialize around, Tyler Goldman, CEO of Buzznet, said on a panel on blogs and social media moderated by our founder and editor, Rafat Ali. Goldman, Mike Dodge, SVP/GM, AtomicOnline; Mattias Miksche, co-founder & CEO, Stardoll;...
In front of a standing-room only crowd, Om Malik, founder of GigaOmni Media, kicked off an afternoon panel pitting mobile versus web and did his best to dig up the details everyone wanted to hear from the likes of Nokia (NYSE: NOK), MySpace, Facebook and Skydeck. Neither MySpace or...
A survey of 600 mobile phone users in Australia by marketing agency Fresh has thrown up some interesting points: "Those aged 10-14 mostly downloaded ring tones and screen savers...For those aged 15-17 and 24-28, the mobiles were mostly used to get online sports results...Those 18-20 used their phones mostly...
So it isn't just in U.S., but some frentic blog media activity in UK as well: --- Datamonitor founder Mike Danson, who bought half of left-leaning current affairs mag New Statesman in April, has invested a five-figure sum to buy a majority of unofficial Labour party blog LabourHome. More...
Meetup, one of the original social network/event organizing sites, has received new funding from Union Square Ventures. No other details were released, but USV's Fred Wilson writes about it on his blog: "Meetup is a perfect investment for our firm because it's a company we know well and a...
After several months in beta, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is giving its content site Knol its wide release. While the site appears to be a challenge to Wikipedia, Google is stressing that the articles and entries have a professional quality. The way Google is maintaining this difference between Knol and...
A bit of disturbance in the ad network force ... Sugar Inc. is taking its ad sales back in house after a year in a rev-share agreement that gave NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) roughly half of the take from the blog network in exchange for handling the ad...
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Another note on Generation X, this time more positive. They may be the bashful 'dark-horse' generation between the limelight-hogging Boomers and Millenials, but X-ers are behind some of the most radical social media businesses in the world. This is the upshot of the fantastically named book, 'X...
Why Top Executives Are Resisting Social MediaEducation, Education, EducationGreat post, and very timely at that! Part of the reason the C-Suite don't understand social media is because so many of us in the industry don't understand it, or do and just don't articulate that to the executives.I'm with an agency...
If you're reading this blog, you probably "get" social media to some degree. Isn't it amazing how few people you know actually read blogs or other fast-changing online media on a regular basis? It does tend to put a damper on one's enthusiasm for social media, that's for sure. ...
News Corp. confirmed what had been reported for weeks: Fox Interactive revenue isn't going to hit its targets. The problem: Social networking is still very hard to monetize. Does inventory matter when you can't sell it? Peter Chernin, News Corp.'s operating chief, delivered his state of MySpace...
Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek.com caused quite a stir a few weeks ago when she conducted an on-stage interview of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW and asked a lot of off-the-wall questions that the tech-heavy audience thought was disrespectful and irrelevant. They were posting their thoughts from the auditorium on...
In this podcast, social media expert and LinkedIn community evangelist Mario Sundar discusses what sites are getting the most buzz and how companies can use social networking sites -- such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter -- to connect with their customer base. For more ways companies can use social networking:...
Don't just sell to them—learn from them! Crowdsourcing is the new way to turn your most passionate customers into a powerful talent resource.Crowdsourcing is the practice of tapping members of the general public to perform important business tasks such as research, product development, and marketing. With the advent of Web-based...
A bad idea whose time has come: Kodak has named a "Chief Blogger" whose job is to "provide daily oversight and creative guidance for Kodak's two blogs – 'A Thousand Words' and 'A ...
Over the past week, a battle has been raging inside Mixi, Japan's giant social networking site SNS, over who controls the intellectual property rights of its user-generated content. Mixi has over 13 million users who post on everything from shopping tips and relationship advice to political discussions...
Thanks to the data-crunching power of sites like compete.com and Alexa, we're able to size up the real traffic count of various domains on the web. Keeping a radar on these stats is important -- not only in recognizing current opportunities, but also future trends. The top sites, as reported...
Last week, we started the conversation about the Social Media Release, a new-fangled form of press release that is supposedly more effective for bloggers and other Internet users than the current model. Today was the audio seminar sponsored by Vocus on the subject, featuring Thom Brodeur from...
