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Social Web: The social aspects of the World Wide Web. It includes social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook as well as the future Dataweb, which enables people and organizations...; Full Social Web Definition >>

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Daily Debrief: How long before a truly 'social' Web?: CNET News.com's Charles Cooper talks with Rafe Needleman of Webware about how trends now coming to the fore in social networking may soon change how we think about the social Web.; Tags: Social Web, Rafe Needleman, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, News, daily debrief, charlie cooper, rage needleman, twitter, social networking, web; Videos 2008-06-17
Students try to bring down Facebook: Students try to bring down FacebookHave you herd of CorporatismThis is the correct form of modern FASIM and so called “social web sights” such as Facebook are promoting this type of environment.Facebook was created for the express purpose of collecting ones date and then selling it to corporations so that...; Tags: Facebook, social Web; Discussion threads 2008-06-02
Social Web: microcosm of 'real world' social, and anti-social, behavior: Social Web: microcosm of 'real world' social, and anti-social, behaviorre:microcosmhttp://www.analogstereo.com/wp/voip_ip_based_conferencing_presence_technology_unified_messaging.htmRE: Social Web: microcosm of 'real world' social, and anti-social, behaviorhttp://www.analogstereo.com/wp/voip_ip_based_conferencing_presence_technology_unified_messaging.htm; Tags: Social Web, anti-social, real world; Discussion threads 2008-03-14
Fortune 500 target Social Web: investing millions in 'boring' Internet: Fortune 500 target Social Web: investing millions in 'boring' Internetre:forune 500http://www.analogstereo.com/wp/maximizing_performance_through_it_strategy.htmRE: Fortune 500 target Social Web: investing millions in 'boring' Internethttp://www.analogstereo.com/wp/maximizing_performance_through_it_strategy.htm; Tags: Social Web, Fortune 500, Internet; Discussion threads 2008-03-14
Is a recession good for the social web?: Is a recession good for the social web?Will Social Media Thrive in RecessionHi Steve,I think you bring up a number of good points that backup the theory about how social media could thrive during a recession. Does this mean that marketers should spend all of their time on the applications...; Tags: Channel management, social Web, Web; Discussion threads 2008-02-06

A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web: A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social WebSorry for being late...But when you come on my site and use it your rights end there. Now, if I have established a set of rules for how I will uphold your expectations of privacy then I need to follow them...; Tags: Social Web; Discussion threads 2007-10-03
A Bill of Rights for the social Web: The social Web is in its early days, like the colonies that formed on the East coast of North America, grappling with a new and uncharted land and taxation without representation. We have fledging colonies of users growing by millions per month on separate islands, and a small minority leading...; Tags: Web, User, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-06
Will MySpace show Barack Obama the money?: Digital Markets BlogÂ presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling "User Generated Politics"Barack Obama on MySpace, the REAL Barack Obama on MySpace, is closing in on 100,000 friends.(SEEÂ Â MySpace to 175 million friends: It's OUR Space, not yours!)Hillary Clinton officially has 83,715 MySpace friends; Obama bests the front runner...; Tags: User Generated Politics, Social Web, Social Networking, Presidential Race, MySpace, Barack Obama; Blog posts 2007-06-02
Google Universal Search $25,000 query in Jeopardy: Marissa Mayer's Universal SearchÂ assertions have a lot more riding on them now: $25,000!Is Google Universal Search in Jeopardy?"The best answer is still the best answer," Mayer confidently proclaimed upon unleashing Universal Search to the world just two weeks ago. While Mayer always says the right Googley things,Â she does not always...; Tags: Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content; Blog posts 2007-05-29
Technorati repositions itself away from blogs: Last night Technorati launched a significant site re-design, moving away from its routes as blog search engine, into one that places much more emphasis on the social web as a whole. Instead of making blogs the default, search results now claim to show "everything in the known universe about...", and...; Tags: Search, Technorati; Blog posts 2007-05-23
MySpace to Facebook: WE have the friends, and money: Is Facebook waging the wrong battles?Facebook: Who needs Yahoo, Craigslist, newspapers? Mark Zuckerberg and company have been floating in conjunction with touted new "game changing" Facebook services in the works.HOW ABOUT MYSPACE?Despite Zuckerberg's incredulous insistence that MySpace is not Facebook's competitive peer, MySpace does indeed reign supreme in the social...; Tags: Facebook, Metrics, MySpace, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-05-22
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 wants Photobucket? Where is Google!: News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media FIM nears deal to buy Photobucket, is the latest M & A industry chatter/rumor, courtesy of an unidentified person, this time cited by The New York Times:Photobucket allows its users to store photos and videos and then easily drop them into their pages on prominent...; Tags: YouTube, Yahoo, Web 2.0, Wall Street, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Search, Google Software Applications, Google; Blog posts 2007-05-08
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
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
Watch out Google? Yellow Pages meets Del.icio.us in YellowBot: Can Google win at Local? That is the $39 billion advertising question. Just as Google’s AdWords fueled billions can readily drive a multi-billion dollar takeover of the online display advertising market, in other words a DoubleClick buyout, Google’s spare cash can easily subsidize free local directory assistance service, in...; Tags: Social Web, Social Networking, Advertising, Yellow Pages, Web 2.0, Social Software, Social Media, Marketing, Local, Google, Culture; Blog posts 2007-04-23
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
Web 2.0 ages: Poor old media?: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction! The Rolling Stones sang it, and Rolling Stone is feeling it, from the blogosphere!Rolling Stone magazine, once a must read for all music and pop-culture nuts is going to establish a social network, via GigaOm. Initial Om Malik reaction: “If this means their...; Tags: User-Generated Content, Web 2.0, Social Web, MySpace, Marketing; Blog posts 2007-04-13
Barack Obama celebrates 'User Generated Politics' victory: Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Barack Obama raised $6.9 million online, but that is not all that Obama for America is touting as his “User Generated Politics” victory in first quarter 2007. My.Barack.Obama is social networking up a grassroots...; Tags: User Generated Politics, Barack Obama, Social Web, Presidential Race, Politics, Political Campaign, Government; Blog posts 2007-04-10
Google upstaged by Microsoft, Yahoo: Google Phone? What Google phone!Microsoft and Yahoo are announcing a few gadgets with “great pride,” however.How about a Yahoo super charged, new “portable MP3 player set to free you from the USB cable chaining you to your PC, allowing you to listen to personalized radio, download music, share music with...; Tags: TV, Television, Software, Social Web, Music, Mobile, Microsoft, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Cell Phones, Business Models, Yahoo; Blog posts 2007-04-09