Posts Tagged ‘Social’
‘Completely open social networks do not work’
January 24th, 2008 • Internet, Social
Tags: Social, web
Human beings collaborate. They also deviate, plan and plot. On a good day, they’ll create intricate towers. On average days, they’ll saw half way through your chair leg while you’re out at lunch. This seems to be the basis of a piece over at Publishing 2.0, which argues that Digg - the original open social voting system - has all but forgotten its open origins as it attempts to prevent ‘gaming’ of its voting system. Read more »
Like Google, only hand-crafted
January 13th, 2008 • Search, Social
Tags: Google, Search, Social, Untitled
Just stumbled upon a Firefox extension from the people at Mahalo.
Not Earth-shaking, I know, but quietly cool. Mahalo, in case you’ve been holidaying on Mars for the last six months, in the new search engine from Jason Calacanis, the entrepreneur who brought you such legendary web properties as WeblogsInc (the power behind Engadget and Autoblog).
Baby Boomers Storm Internet
January 13th, 2008 • Internet, Social
Tags: Life, Social, trends, Web
Everyone knows the UK has an aging population - by 2012, the average Briton will be 132 years old, and all of them will rely on the handful of under-20s to help them cross the road.
Doubt this as fact? Try a new report from Neilsen, which points to a fundamental shift in the age profile of the UK net population. Says the company:
“When looking at how a particular audience is composed by age, a change in share - even by just a few percentage points - actually represents quite a fundamental shift. Age compositions tend to evolve subtly over a number of years so to see such large changes in the course of just a year shows that the Internet population is undergoing a significant ageing process.”
The largest threat to Google yet?
January 7th, 2008 • Google, Search, Social
Tags: Google, Search, Social, web3.0, wiki
Wikia Search went live today.
So what? So it’s the brainchild of one Jimmy Whales, the clever chap who brought you Wikipedia. So there’s just a remote chance that it may fly.
The search results are, so far, pretty damn poor, and many of the preferences do not work. But as the world gets stuck in and begins to rate those returns, so they’ll improve (tricky right now, as the star ratings that accompany each entry in a return are disabled), and doubtless the various features will get switched on in the coming weeks. Read more »
Last year, social. This year, knowledge
January 6th, 2008 • Business, Internet
Tags: Google, ibm, Social
Ex-IBM boss Irving Wladawsky-Berger reckons an IT-based knowledge economy will be the most significant trend of 2008, grabbing the cool baton from social networking.
I confess to struggling with the concept at first. IWB points to a recent Business Week piece on ‘cloud computing’ - basically, server networks that can number in the hundreds of thousands that hold invaluable services and wells of know-how. Read more »
Twitter, Facebook bring world economies to their knees
January 5th, 2008 • Internet, Social
Tags: facebook, Social, twitter
Nope, it’s not Islamists, the Russians or short-sighted Americans taking unaffordable loans. No, the globe’s financial wiring is being pulled apart by… instant messaging and your online buddies.
OK, so it’s the late noughties version of IM and buddies, but it’s IM all the same. I’ve been monitoring various stories this week concerning the public use and abuse of Facebook and Twitter, mostly prompted by analysts and hacks wondering at the growth and value of the two social web giants.
Pat Phelan over at Roam4Free pulls together a few stats behind Twitter’s usage.
According to @missrogue and @fredericguarino there over 450.000 active users and 750.000 registered users on Twitter and with Twittown suggesting 340,000 accounts in July and a growth figure of 60,000 users per month you can settle on a rough 1 million users.
Never mind what are Twitter costs, whats the cost of Twitter? at Roam4free
Phelan does the maths, and suggests that Twitter use will cost the economy $13.5bn in 2008.
And as I opened The Daily Mail today (excuse: only newspaper in the coffee shop, and I was bored), I was greeted by a two-page scare piece by Radio 4’s John Humphries investigating the new fixation with virtual identities.
Which is my cue to sound like Meldrew: we’ve had this for as long as I can recall, with culprits ranging from Rubik’s Cubes to Elvis. It’s an age-old page-filler on quiet days.
Google to launch Facebook rival
October 16th, 2007 • Google, Search, Social
Tags: facebook, Google, Social
So the search giant is going to unveil its Facebook rival on November 5 (no source here… just a hail of blogosphere noise).I’m wondering what tricks Google has up its sleeve to bring down the social giant. In case they’re still wondering, and happen to be reading this, here are a few ideas:
- Bring every social profile together in one place: YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Facebook, the lot.
- Include an IM client in the Friends interface.
- Include a way of seeing what other people are reading.
- Ensure that you can export everything if you tire of the service
- And running through that list again, you realise just how close Google is to delivering the killer blow.
Has Facebook peaked?
October 11th, 2007 • Social
Tags: facebook, Social
According to Om Malik, the latest comScore figures from the US seem to suggest that the world’s most hyped network is losing audience. So has FB caught the Icarus virus? Not according to Marketing Pilgrim, who say that the exact same dip happened last year - and Facebook duly recovered.
Facebook: a fall is predicted
September 26th, 2007 • Business
Tags: facebook, Social
Marketing Shift has a principal analyst at Ovum foretelling rough times ahead for Facebook. He bases his argument on background legal action by the founder, the potential for identity theft and a possible crack-down on the use of the site in offices.I can see the latter beginning to cut in soon. Facebook profile pages are a common sight on screens as you wander offices these days - usually at lunchtime, admittedly, but you have to wonder how many bosses are running checks on total usage during the working day.Facebook Could Burst Web 2.0 Bubble
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