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Google: Any rain on My Maps parade?: Is the latest incarnation of Google Maps the closest thing to heaven on earth, literally?Perusing Techmeme would suggest so, starting with the Official Google Blog declaration that a new My Maps feature is “Map-making: So easy a caveman could do it.” Google’s message is on Googley target and typically widely...; Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Amateur Content, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-04-05
Does Google SEO success 'suck'?: Rich Skrenta has a love-hate relationship with Google, and the traffic it drives to the company he leads, Topix.Skrenta decried to the Wall Street Journal just weeks ago that as Topix is 45% dependent upon Google for its visitors, moves by the number one search engine can yield “catastrophic” impacts...; Tags: Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Marketing, Local, Internet Data, Google, Business Models, Amateur Content; Blog posts 2007-04-02
Yahoo on the fringe! The big Y Goes underground, big time: Shouldn’t the holy grail of UGC, User Generated Content, really be all about the Users, as in user culture, as opposed to corporate culture?YES, and Yahoo gets it, big time, with the launch of “Yahoo Underground,” a funky, seeking to be no holds barred first-hand trip inside of “unexplored worlds,”...; Tags: Yahoo, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Culture, Amateur Content; Blog posts 2007-04-01
Digg at 1 million diggers: Digital media democracy or algorithm rule?: Kevin Rose is proudly singing the praises of his Digg today, 1,000,000 praises: It’s now been more than two years since the first story was submitted and dugg on Digg. Since then you guys have helped Digg move from a personal project amongst a group of friends to a...; Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Digg, Self-Promotion, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-08
NBA video highlight mixer: Fans are in control!: AT NBA.com, fans users are really in control, of their own “NBA movie”!Get media, mix movies, share, the NBA Fan Voice declares. Steve Grimes, Vice President of Interactive Services for NBA Entertainment:The NBA.com Highlight Mixer provides our fans with easy-to-use editing tools along with the broadest selection and highest quality...; Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Media, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-03-08

John Edwards: MySpace trumps Ning, big time!: Edition number 29 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Ning is proving a very unsocial place for John Edwards. The 60 second Ning John Edwards “Social Network” set-up by the Edwards campaign looks like it is a 60 second...; Tags: Amateur Content, Craigslist, Government, John Edwards, Marketing, Media, Metrics, MySpace, Self-Promotion, Social Capital, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, User Generated Politics; Blog posts 2007-03-06
Web 2.0 meets USA Today: Citizen journalism for the masses: From the editors of USA Today: "We have redesigned USAToday.com, but more important, we are expanding our editorial mission."HOW? By asking YOU to “Add YOUR voice to our coverage.”USAToday.com solicits “engage our website in whole new ways”:What’s everyone talking about?Interested in what your fellow readers are following? When scanning headlines,...; Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Social Networking, Social Media, Print, Social Software, Amateur Content, Content, Social Web, Culture, Citizen Journalism; Blog posts 2007-03-05
Obama trouncing Clinton in MySpace race: Edition number 28 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”MySpace is a hotly contested virtual battleground in “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008. Barack Obama is en route to a landslide victory over Hillary Clinton in the MySpace friends...; Tags: User Generated Politics, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Social Web, Amateur Content, MySpace, Culture, Government, Web 2.0, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, Social Software, Barack Obama; Blog posts 2007-03-05
Web 2.0 Social Networks: Cool but marginal and unprofitable?: Has Cisco made the RIGHT bet on Social Networks?Not according to Om Malik who offers a "News flash" for Cisco: This social software thing – it is too marginal, doesn’t make money and can’t make you cool.Really? Apparently Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. CEO and proud corporate owner of MySpace,...; Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Business Models, Media, MySpace, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-03
Andreessen vs. Cisco: Web 2.0 platform competition heats up: Is Marc Andreessen, Netscape co-creator and Ning turnkey social networking platform co-founder, worried that powerhouse Cisco is raining on his social networking parade?"The idea that Cisco is going to be a force in social networking is about as plausible as Ning being a force in optical switches,” he said to...; Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Enterprise, Marketing, Media, Self-Promotion, Social Capital, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Software, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-03
Digg: TechCrunch vs. Wired Magazine: Michael Arrington comes to the Digg rescue suggesting: “Wired Magazine seems hell bent on convincing the world that Digg is falling apart.”On what does Arrington base his conclusion? Arrington:My bigger problem is that Wired isn’t simply reporting news about Digg. They’re making the news. And they’re going negative.Really? Where’s the...; Tags: Social Software, Social Media, Social Networking, Content, Self-Promotion, Digg, Amateur Content, Social Web, Culture; Blog posts 2007-03-01
CitySearch bails out InsiderPages: What's the deal?: IAC is taking the struggling InsiderPages local reviews site off of the hands of its founder Idealab and investors Sequoia capital and Softbank Capital.Bill Gross, Idealab CEO, at the Idealab homepage:We began Idealab with the dream of creating ground-breaking companies whose products and services would change the way people think,...; Tags: Social Software, Search Advertising, Metrics, Social Media, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Amateur Content, Yellow Pages, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Local, Web 2.0, Business Models; Blog posts 2007-03-01
Google: Hollywood vs. YouTube video games: Will the Google-YouTube-Copyright Holders video game ever end?Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscars via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to remove all unauthorized clips, Variety stated yesterday.I just relived...; Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-02-28
Web 2.0 one minute Social Network: Does size matter?: “If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?” the old saying asks.I ASK: If you create your own social network and no one joins, do you exist?Web 2.0 turnkey empowerment platforms lure with visions of instant social nirvana, for free and...; Tags: Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Facebook, Social Web, Amateur Content, MySpace, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-02-27
YouTube scores NBA deal: Do you dream about being the next Michael Jordan? You can have your basketball shot at clip-culture fame courtesy of the NBA and YouTube:“Post Up the NBA” debuts on the new “NBA Channel” on YouTube to “provide fans around the world and the entire YouTube community with the opportunity to...; Tags: Social Software, Search Advertising, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, YouTube, Video, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Google, Search, Advertising, Web 2.0, Media; Blog posts 2007-02-26
Web 2.0: Does 'old media' get it?: MySpace and Facebook are typically categorized together as “social networking” Websites. Facebook, however, makes a clear distinction between its business and that of MySpace. I chatted with Dan Rose, Vice President, about the Facebook business model at the recent Media Summit in New York City, He underscored to...; Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Facebook, Google, Google Software Applications, Media, Metrics, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-02-25
John Edwards NOT Social Networking for 'User Generated Politics' campaign 2008: Edition number 24 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”John Edwards is "Social Networking" like a true politician, he is covering all his bases and promising action. But what is his actual Social Networking record?In “John Edwards: Be my MySpace...; Tags: Web 2.0, Local, Culture, Government, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Facebook, Social Networking, Social Media, User Generated Politics, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, President Clinton, John Edwards; Blog posts 2007-02-24
Google: Why TV networks will trump YouTube: It is a mainstream media irony when the very old print media guard characterizes the broadcast old media guard as merely “posturing” before the mighty, inexorable Google. While the “old gray lady” strives to maintain an apparent “balanced” discussion of Viacom and NBC and News Corp. versus Google, Richard...; Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Business Models, Content, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Legal, Local, Marketing, Media, Metrics, Newspapers, Search, Search Advertising, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-02-18
Google YouTube: Is Viacom the big bad wolf?: Are YouTubers in little red riding hood jeopardy?An ominous voice suggests Viacom may be as dangerous as a big bad wolf in a “Were you caught in the Viacom takedown,” a NOT broadcast yourself professionally produced advocacy video at YouTube, courtesy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF.Jim Moore, prior Senior...; Tags: Social Media, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Video, Amateur Content, Social Web, Legal, Google, Web 2.0, Culture, Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-02-16
Can Web 2.0 make taxes sexy?: Are you down with “The Tax Rap”? Yo! Everyone knows nothing goes together better than RAPPING and TAXES. Dont get it twisted. TurboTax is the #1 selling, #1 rated tax software in the US—A. Platinum. We dont do "sweet". We do big, fat, throw your back out theyre so...; Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-02-15