Murdok spoke to Victoria Ransom, founder and CEO of Wildfire Interactive, about social media and the company’s social media tool Wildfire Promotion Builder used to create a variety of campaigns on social networks.
Murdok: What gave you the idea to develop the Wildfire Promotion Builder?
LinkedIn Founder on the Future of Social Data
LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman is featured in a video from Nokia’s IdeasProject.com. He talks about new products being created from the social data that is available on the Internet.
Twitter Co-Founder Apologizes For Hasty Update
So Twitter caused a bit of controversy this week as they changed their @replies feature in a way that actually effected just 3% of their users
Wikipedia Founder Slams Wikipedia Art
Some controversy stirred up earlier this week after the Electronic Frontier Foundation stepped in on behalf of the creators of Wikipediaart.org, a site dedicated to a Wikipedia-related art project. The EFF was responding to demands by a lawyer for the Wikimedia Foundation, the parent company of Wikipedia, that the artists turn over control of the domain.
Wikipedia Founder Talks Consumer-Generated Content for Branding
Murdok recently spoke with Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia for a few minutes, and discussed the past, present, and future of user-generated content as a marketing medium, not to mention several other topics. What kinds of brands do you think work the best for marketing with consumer-generated content? Share your thoughts with us.
Twitter Co-Founder Talks Suggested Users
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has shared some insight into how Twitter selects accounts for the Suggested Users box. You know, that box that newcomers see when they sign up that Jason Calacanis is trying to buy a top spot in.
Web Founder Still Creatively Vague
The World Wide Web turned 20 years old last Friday, and its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, says its potential is hardly reached. His next vision, a vision he’s been talking about for years, is the Semantic Web, which on the surface seems as simple as herding cats. But don’t let the specifics bog down a perfectly good concept with just the right amount of vagueness to drive it forward.
Self-Proclaimed “Facebook Era” Founder Wins Google Suit
Aaron Greenspan, a man known mostly for his legal issues with Facebook, recently sued Google when his account was shut down and payment of $721 he was due from pubslishing Google Ads was halted. One day Greenspan received an email from Google saying:
OVGuide Founder Answers Video Search Questions
January marked the first operational month for video search engine OVGuide as a profit-making entity. Now it has received $5 million in funding from Baroda Ventures.
The Next Two Years Belong To Facebook, According To MySpace Founder
It appears that even the co-founder of MySpace is placing his money on Facebook to win the social networking wars–if only for the next couple of years.
Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, Brett Brewer co-founder of MySpace who sold the social site to News Corp, said: