Web users rely on community-contributed-content sites such as Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers. These sites enable you to communicate directly with an engaged audience. But contribute to the conversation with care. Too much spin and you’re credibility will be shot-and your brand damaged. You’ll come away from this session knowing how these influential sites work and how to participate constructively.
Moderator: Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, Search Engine Land
Irish Pix.ie Excels At Photo Sharing
Pix.ie is a photo-sharing site that’s based in, and generally targeted at, Ireland. But if you’re not Irish, it’s still worth a look – among other advantages, the beta version of Pix.ie has a monthly upload limit that’s five times larger than what Flickr offers.
Social Networks Feed Photo Sharing
I’ve put exactly one picture on MySpace; my Facebook profile contains a whopping five or so. Yet a new Hitwise report proves that this is not the norm, and that traffic from social networks gives an extreme boost to a lot of photo-sharing sites.
comScore Examines Video-Sharing Sites
comScore Video Metrix has released a study that looks at six video sharing sites that did not make comScore’s ranking of the top 10 U.S. video properties for the month of April.
File-Sharing Could Get University Funding Cut?
So as state-funded university tuition rises faster than the inflation rate, grants are becoming nonexistent, and students are actually looking abroad to complete their education cheaper and in half the time, Congressmen cozy with the RIAA are threatening to cut their funding more if they don’t play ball with the recording labels.
FON Sharing Wi-Fi With Time Warner
A deal between Time Warner Cable (TWC) and FON will allow TWC customers to share Wi-Fi connections with other FON users.
Content Tagging & Sharing Now Really Delicious
I’m probably a typical web user. Whenever I see a website page or a blog post that has something interesting, I’ll bookmark it in Firefox (or add it to favorites in Internet Explorer).
That’s the traditional way of keeping track of content out there you want to refer to again.
TiVo and Home Movie Sharing
TiVo.com | TiVo Home Movie Sharing Today TiVo launched a cool new service called "Home Movies" in a joint venture with One True Media.
Social Photo Sharing and Stock Photography
Dan Heller’s Photography Business Blog: "In 2000, I wrote an article called, ‘The Five Truisms of the Photography Business’, and Truism #1 is ‘There are more people who have photography as a hobby than as a profession.’
Mobile Video Sharing
Orb Networks, a software development firm has announced a new service called MyCasting, which allows users to share Internet videos from their PCs to mobile phones, by text message links. User can watch videos from popular sites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Google and Yahoo.
"Demand for Internet video on the PC is insatiable with more than 100 million streams daily on YouTube alone and many of those streams are being forwarded and shared virally via email and IM," said Joe Costello, Chairman and CEO of Orb Networks.