Tag Archive | "Social Media"
March 16, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
Comments Off on Sinbad Dies & Is Re-Born (Wikipedia Apparently Not An Authority on Everything)
Here’s another great example of the power of social media. Today’s example illustrates just how quickly rumors can spread via social media properties… This weekend, rumors began to circulate saying that comedian, “Sinbad” died. The AP reports that the rumor started on Wikipedia, when someone changed the entry for “Sinbad” to say that he died […]
March 7, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Mobile,
Review,
Social Media
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Polaris Venture Partners general partner Simeon Simeonov is the latest to suggest that Google is working on a mobile Phone. In his blog, Simeonov divulges that Andy Rubin (who founded Danger and later, Asteroid, which was ultimately sold to Google) is working with a team of about 100 people on a Google phone. He also […]
March 5, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Enterprise,
Financing,
Social Media
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The Guardian reports that Reuters will soon be launching it’s own financial social networking site, aimed at fund managers, traders and analysts. Reuters has some 70,000 subscribers to it’s messaging service, which is the first social feature of its site. Given this large number of existing subscribers, I suspect that Reuter’s forthcoming social network has […]
March 2, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Advertising,
Social Media
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Italy-based social networking company, Dada S.p.A., is partnering with Google AdSense to pay users for allowing ads on their space. Dada’s new Friend$ is an opt-in revenue sharing program that rewards users for adding friends and updating the content of their Dada space. According to Dada, Friend$ is, “the only program that rewards you both […]
March 1, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Enterprise
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Today, on Webpronews, Steven Bradley addresses some interesting questions raised in a couple of other blogs – namely: Is there an optimal post length? Will shorter posts help to retain readers and even lead to more links? What makes you unsubscribe from a blog’s RSS feed? Bradley’s ultimate conclusion is that the best blogs have […]
February 27, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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I read a great review of Ning in yesterday’s TechCrunch. So, today, I thought I’d give it a whirl myself. Michael Arrington’s review was right on the money… Ning is pretty cool! It lets you create your own customized social network – complete with RSS feeds, blogs, forums, and more. Almost everything is customiseable – […]
February 26, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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Internet search engines and social networking sites are enabling companies to do their “due diligence” on prospective employees more extensively than ever before. According to an article I read this morning, Google (and other big companies) are researching prospective recruits by investigating their on-line presence on social networking sites. But, businesses aren’t the only ones […]
February 23, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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In case you were wondering why this blog went from daily to naught this week – One of my best friends was in town this week, visiting from England, so I took a break from blogging to play tour guide. As of today, I’m back to blogging as usual. If you’re wondering what’s next in […]
February 16, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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If you’re into Twitter, try Nowthen. Nowthen is the newest brainchild from the folks at Blinkx. It’s everywhere messaging like Twitter, but besides written updates/broadcasts, you can also send pictures from your mobile phone using MMS. You can set up privacy features to use it with specific groups of friends or with the world. You […]
February 15, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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The BBC reports that University of Maryland Lecturers Ben Shneiderman and Jennifer Preece are proposing “community-driven websites to be run by trained volunteers working in conjunction with the 6,100 local 911 services around the US.“ The BBC article is really interesting and points to the potential applications of social networking sites in local and/or national […]
