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- YouTube to video artists: Wolf in sheep's clothing?
- Is all good in King Chad's YouTube Kingdom now that he agreed to share the video wealth, in his own small, very selective way?NO, both newly ordained video elite and newly dissed "non-populars," are lamenting a YouTube calculated business move that moves YouTube away from its original community spirit.The chosen video few are wondering if they are...
- Tags: Culture, Amateur Content, Advertising, Google, Uncategorized, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Google's YouTube divides community: Advertising rules, not users
- Google’s YouTube blog post headline says it all: “YouTube elevates most popular users to partners.”There goes Chad’s pet “community”?While Google YouTube will undoubtedly be lauded for “finally recognizing” the hard work of dedicated YouTuber legitimate uploaders, the video sharing picture is not as pretty as it is painted.YouTube on its...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Web 2.0 Social Media: Voyeurs rule, not amateurs!
- In my “Social Freeloaders” User Generated Content UGC series last year. I created a Web 2.0: Top five social risks list to evaluate the sustainability, or not, of UGC based models. In asking Social freeloaders: Is there a collective wisdom and can the Web obtain it? last June, I used...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Google, Amateur Content
- Blog posts 2007-04-28
- Sex trade at Google, not Craigslist
- Does Craigslist REALLY have a “dirty little secret”? NO, but Google may!Compete, a Website which claims “insights powered by over 2 million people,” declares a “scoop,” daring to bare the “virtual red-light district,” aka Craigslist:"It’s no wonder that Craigslist is champion of the online classifieds revolution; Compete reports just under...
- Tags: Google, Amateur Content, Advertising, Self-Promotion, Media, Marketing, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Culture, Craigslist
- Blog posts 2007-04-07
- YouTube gets religion: Matzoh Balls and Chocolate Bunnies
- What is part of organizing all the worlds information? Celebrating the holidays YouTube style!PASSOVER/PESACH 2007: MATZA BALL RAP! by Giving Tree Productions, described as "hysterical rap to the music of baby got back by sir mix a lot."Anita C. Rich comments: "Nice, makes me want to get up and have...
- Tags: YouTube, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Amateur Content
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- 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
- Google news and views, Web 2.0 showcase: NEW at Digital Markets!
- Readers of this Digital Markets Blog know I am passionate about two things:Google and Web 2.0!To complement my ongoing, in-depth, exclusive reporting and analysis of all things Google and Web 2.0, I am authoring two new series going forward:1) Web 2.0 Showcase and 2) Google News and ViewsWeb 2.0 Showcase...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Media, Google, Copyright, Content, Business Models, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Web 2.0 video showcase: Acceptable.tv, Brightcove, Payoneer
- UPDATE: Google news and views, Web 2.0 showcase: NEW at Digital Markets! First Issue: NY Video 2.0 March Meetup Presentations at Columbia UniversityMTV Networks: Kenny Miller, EVP & Creative Director, Global Digital MediaBrightcove: Tony Dunaif, VP, Content PartnershipsPayoneer: Yuval Tal, FounderMTV Networkss Acceptble.TV: Kenny Miller“When watching isn’t enough, take control”...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, TV, Television, Content, Business Models, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Hillary Clinton goes viral: Be my citizen co-sponsor, please!
- Edition number 31 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”The Hillary Clinton campaign proclaims at her Website that each and every one of YOU can be HER “Citizen Co-Sponsor” of the Count Every Vote Act, "User Generated Politics" style: ...
- Tags: E-mail, Hillary Clinton, Vote Act
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- 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
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