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Spotting Trends with Social Media
One of the often overlooked aspects of social media is that it can often be seen a pointer for developing and emerging…
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Friendster Coming Back? Puh-leeze
Matt Marshall over at Venture Beat has a post up about Friendster with a “returning from the dead” kind of vibe: Matt points out that the site — which is kind of the poster boy for early social-networking success, followed by equally rapid failure — has had what he calls a “massive” 40-per-cent jump in page views in May, to 9 billion (Facebook gets about…
MySpace is Las Vegas, Facebook is IKEA
Danah Boyd, a sociologist and researcher in the U.S. who specializes in youth culture and online social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, has posted a draft version of a new paper she is writing on what might loosely be referred to as “class divisions” between the two popular social networking sites. Although she says that the differences between the two audiences are not strictly…
Fred Thompson Gets All The Media
Potential Republican Presidential candidate Fred Thompson has a website that should be a model for anyone aspiring to political office.
Google Named Top Mobile Web Destination
When rankings are published, and Google is involved, the Mountain View-based company usually wins. This time is no different, and M:Metrics has crowned Google the “top mobile web destination for smartphone users.”
Blogging, Payment, Incentives & Disclosure
Meg has opened up a discussion on the growing trend for bloggers in Australia to receive pitches from companies seeking to form relations with bloggers and use their blogs as a vehicle for product promotion.
