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- Can Web 2.0 really save the planet?
- Chad Hurley, the worldwide Web 2.0 video king, hailed before the U.S. Congress last week that his YouTube “community” is helping “children in Africa.” BUT, can the entire Web 2.0 community save the WHOLE planet?Business Objects, a self-described “pioneer in business intelligence since the dawn of the category,” believes...
- Tags: Enterprise, Social Capital, Social Software, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- MySpace to 175 million friends: It's OUR Space, not yours!
- “Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you if you’re young at heart,” so croons Frank Sinatra. Maybe, but the very young are getting their hearts broken at MySpace!It apparently is not an easy task to maintain over 175 million friendships, even if Friend in Chief is founding...
- Tags: Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Social Capital, Self-Promotion, Political Campaign, MySpace, Marketing, Facebook, Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Social Networking for the masses: Rise of 'The Sleuth'
- Is social networking really just a young persons game? Is MySpace the only social networking game? (see Web 2.0 ages: Poor old media?)NO. There is a social networker in each and every one of us that seeks emotional rewards from being connected and influential, new research has found. ...
- Tags: Marketing, Social Networking, Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Media, Social Capital, Self-Promotion, Media
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Hillary Clinton, Democrats lead Republicans in Web race to the White House
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Hillary Clinton began her online presidential “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008 “conversation” early and it is paying off. “Hillary for President” is leading in national opinion polls and on the Web. “If the...
- Tags: Social Software, John McCain, John Edwards, President Clinton, Social Capital, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, User Generated Politics, Politics, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Video, User-Generated Content, Culture, Government, Local, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- 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
- 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
- Google Personals vs. Match.com: Get a date at Google!
- Is this Valentine’s Day inspiring you to seek “hot & sexy dating with singles in your area”?Google presumably hopes so. If you click on that number one AdWords “Sponsored Link” from Passion.com in a search for “mobile dating,” Google gets paid for a click. Google entices "mobile dating" searchers...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Search, Culture, Google, Social Web, ecommerce, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Search Advertising, User Generated Politics, Social Capital
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- GoFish CEO + Bolt CEO: Moving advertising from TV to Internet, Exclusive Interview
- Michael Downing, co-founder and CEO of GoFish, and Aaron Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Bolt Media, are enthusiastically looking forward to jointly growing a billion streams “made for Internet programming” advertising supported business, and they shared their enthusiasm with me this morning. In a New York-San Francisco conference call...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Advertising, CEO Interviews, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Brands, TV, Television, Social Networking, Social Media, User Generated Politics, Social Capital, GoFish, Michael Downing
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Throw a party for Hillary Clinton!
- Who needs Evites! Team Hillary presents HILLRAISERS! Want to be the talk of your town? Plan an event all about Hillary Clinton: “Hillary Clinton for President” provides an online turnkey system for throwing a party where the guest of honor is presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, at least in spirit:...
- Tags: Local, Culture, Social Web, User Generated Politics, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, President Clinton, Social Capital, RSVP
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Web 2.0 at IBM, live!
- SOCIAL CAPITAL THEORY MEETS WEB 2.0Interactive Presentation Authored by Donna BogatinFor presentation at IBM Research Center, Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 11am The blogosphere can indeed be a virtuous circle! Web 2.0 is one of the topics I probe here at this Digital Markets Blog, particularly from a business...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Culture, Blogs, Social Web, Brands, Social Networking, Social Media, IBM, Social Capital, Web
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
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- Girls are as smart as boys, but tests are getting dumber
- New research published in the journal Science confirms what all of us teachers have known for a long time: girls are just as smart as boys. I hope none of our tax dollars went into that one. A quick quote from the article before I get into the...
- Tags: Test, Teacher, Hyde, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users
- Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...
- Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook Connect
- At this week's F8 08 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains how changes in the social-networking company's platform will benefit developers, as well as users.
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Benefits, Human Resources
- Videos 2008-07-25
- Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts
- A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...
- Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...
- Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Google + Digg = ?
- There's a persistent rumor that crops up every few months about social news site Digg being acquired by ____ insert company here. The latest, citing "multiple sources inside and outside Google", says that Google will buy Digg for $200M. This is similar to a rumor in March that Digg was...
- Tags: Google Inc., Digg, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Facebook gets serious about app quality
- Facebook gets serious about app qualityBetter Late Than Never!!I agreed with with you that these moves are coming late. Third-party applications have become all the rage on the social networking scene and this is something they should have sorted long since. But anyway, it's better late that never and i...
- Tags: Social networking, app quality, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Gallery: New user interface for Xbox 360
- At the E3 game conference Microsoft unveiled a new look for it's Xbox 360 interface to make features easier to use and buy, and improve the social experience. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andy Smith, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox
- Image galleries 2008-07-24
- Facebook gets serious about app quality
- Facebook at its F8 developer powwow had a bevy of announcements that garnered interest, but among the most notable were its efforts to improve the quality of applications on the social networking site. First, the brief recap of Facebook's news (statement, Steve O'Hear's takeaways, Webware and Techmeme...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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