Is Social Advertising a Safe Haven for Marketing Budgets? (10)
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As we watch the economy do what economies do - have growing pains and adjust to challenges - it becomes ever more apparent that doing things the old way just won’t work anymore. That is true of many of the old ways, especially when it comes to how companies advertise and grow their business. It is my opinion that the return on investment (ROI) for traditional advertising will continue to shrink, even as companies using ...
MMOs and social networking (1)
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Now this could potentially be big. Turbine is working on a social networking system that will be connected to their Lord of the Rings Online MMO, where information concerning people’s avatars will be posted and where people will be able to socialize in a Facebook/MySpace kind of way. It’s supposed to be available later this year. Information from Alice and from Gamasutra. Tags: LotRO, Turbine, Facebook, social networking
Digg’s Recent Bans and the Limits of Crowdsourcing (46)
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Several weeks ago, Digg made online headlines when it banned several dozen of its users, some of which were among its most highly ranked contributors (including Reg “Zaibatsu” Saddler, who by some metrics was the #3 Digg user of all time). On Digg’s blog, the company explained that the bannings were a result of script abuse, although some observers found this explanation to be unconvincing. Shortly afterwards, Digg announced that it had raised $28.7 million ...
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Mark Dykeman said:
I was caught up in the race to Digg supremacy for a number of months this year; cracked the top 800 Diggers list based on stories promoted to front page. I've walked away from social news for the most part because I'd rather be creating content than promoting it, but I'm still a bit bothered by some of the things that Digg has done to some of its core users over the past year. One quick thought: Digg would be dead in the water without advertising....
Last.fm Brings Back Part of the Album Jacket With Song Lyrics (10)
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The Internet radio and on-demand streaming music service Last.fm is host to over 5 million songs spanning numerous independent and big-name studios and publishers. So today’s unveiling of a partnership with LyricFind to insert some 800,000 lyrics among Last.fm’s song catalog isn’t a full sweep. Yet it includes many popular artists old and new, from The Beatles to Pearl Jam to Radiohead, enough to satisfy plenty of listeners. However, a concern for listeners may be ...
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Jeffrey said:
yay! now hopefully a good lyric searching API will pop up too =]
Mozilla Launches Geode for Location Management in Firefox (6)
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Want your Firefox 3 browser to be location-savvy? Mozilla is making that possible with the release of Geode, an “experimental Firefox add-on” intended as something of a holdover until Firefox 3.1 arrives with support for the W3C Geolocation Specification. The purpose of Geode is to give current Firefox installations the option to specify location, determined through Skyhook’s Loki Wi-Fi mapping service, with varying levels of exactness, to be manually chosen by the user. If you ...
Yahoo Launches Impressive Calendar Beta (7)
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Yahoo has launched a new version of its Calendar service. To describe it briefly, it has been designed for those who like keeping things as simple as possible without having to sacrifice utility. Looks-wise, it’s safe to say Yahoo’s engineers were inspired at least in part by Apple’s iCal program. The layouts for both are quite similar. Performance, meanwhile, is pretty much on par with most any other top-tier Web-based calendaring service. You’re able to ...
Social TV (1)
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When I met Miles 'LG15' Beckett last summer, prior to the launch of Kate Modern, one part of our conversation stayed with me. Discussing the launch of the Bebo drama that was to go on and become so successful, I asked him what the plot line for the show would be like. To my bemusement he responded in the vaguest terms, as if it wasn't terribly important. I followed up with an enquiry about where ...
Interview With Xignite CEO Founder Stephane Dubois (Video) (1)
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Among the hundreds of companies and social platforms debuting at Web 2.0 Expo NY was Xignite, a new financial Web service. Xignite’s platform lets financial sites show global delayed stock data in their applications and satisfies the growing demand for reliable stock quotes from emerging countries. MP4 / Subscribe for Free Xignite uses an on-demand model to serve clients like ING, Goodyear, and McDonald’s and provide market quotes, news, corporate data, industry information, analytics, tools ...
MySpace and HP Team Up to Allow Site-Wide Photo Printing (1)
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MySpace has partnered with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to bring print-on-demand capability to the popular social network. That’s right. Those embarrassing photos of you Xeroxing your rear end at the office Christmas party aren’t just on your receptionist’s MySpace albums anymore. They’ll be printable so that even those who haven’t found the Internet yet can see them. In all seriousness, this means that MySpace, home to over 4 billion images already, may fast become a hub for ...
ITUNES TOOLBOX: 30+ Tools For iTunes (2)
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Apple launched iTunes widgets last week, allowing you to post your iTunes info to blogs and social networks. We thought it would be a good opportunity to round up all the services that let you extend and customize iTunes, as well as sharing your music with your friends. (more…) Recommended: MySpace News - MySpace Launching News Site Share This
Gartner Blames IT Managers for Failed Communities? (1)
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In a recent press release from Gartner, the headline states that “many social software projects fail due to IT managers not having a well-defined purpose to succeed”. Now that’s seems a little harsh to the IT world. Unless Gartner is just trying to be controversial or come up with an angle that will attract attention to their upcoming conference, IT managers are being unfairly blamed. I would place the blame for failed social software projects ...
Der Erste sein, der eine Millionenstadt kartografiert (1)
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Für die Millionenstadt Ouagadougou in Westafrika existieren wie für viele afrikanische Städte keine Straßenkarten, die diesen Namen verdienen. Das Geografische Institut Burkina Faso (IGB) produziert noch den besten Plan, auf dem aber 95% aller Straßennamen nicht verzeichnet sind, und der der Realität auch Jahre hinterherhinkt. Digital liegen überhaupt nur solche Skizzen vor. Das wird sich sehr bald ändern - mit Openstreetmap. Wir von Laafi haben heute beschlossen, alles daran zu setzen, diese schöne Stadt möglichst ...
Wieviel Zeit benötigt man für Web 2.0? (2)
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Wenn sich eine Nonprofit-Organisation für den Einsatz von Web 2.0-Instrumenten entschlossen hat, wie viel Stunden pro Woche muss sie dann für ihre Online-Aktivitäten einkalkulieren? Die Antwort: sehr viele. Wer sich im Mitmach-Internet engagieren möchte, muss bereit sein, dafür viel Zeit zur Verfügung zu stellen. Um die Installation der Tools geht es hier nicht. Die Technik ist, was den Zeitaufwand angeht, vollkommen nachrangig. Was Zeit kostet, sind die Beziehungen, die man über Web 2.0 aufbaut, die ...
Openstreetmap am BarCamp Wien (1)
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Am BarCamp Wien dieses Wochende habe ich gemeinsam mit Christian Spanring Openstreetmap vorgestellt. Aus der Abteilung “How to recognise the future when it lands on you”. (Falls es noch Zweifel gibt: Dieses Projekt wird Umfang und Impact in der Größenordung der Wikipedia einnehmen. Kein Scheiß jetzt.) Hier die Slides: Herzlichen Dank an Peter Eich, von dem ein großer Teil dieser Slides stammt! Update: Luca hat mitgefilmt - ist allerdings sehr leise, nur mit voll aufgedrehten ...
Facebook för företaget. På riktigt! (1)
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Många letar efter Facebook för företaget idag. För den som verkligen vill, så är Clearspace från Jive det som gäller. Gia Lyons beskriver hur Clearspace löser det i posten “Making Clearspace act and look a little like Facebook” SiXX rekommenderar även Företagsbläckfisken Facebook vs Wordpress Förändring görs när man ser värde i det? Ut med interna nojor och in med mod Intranät 2.0 Vägen till Enterprise 2.0 - Social Produktivitet Enterprise 2.0 på riktigt Använd ...
More Real Time TV Comes to Livestation (4)
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Yesterday we put questions to you concerning news media and the way in which its video services are being consumed on the Web. Most respondents to a poll told us it was friends who pointed them in the direction of content. Social networking to stay informed, in other words. That’s good to hear! Still, there was the question of live video on sites like YouTube that didn’t quite get the response I was expecting. The ...
Prototype for distributed / decentralised microblogging using semantics at Cloudlands (2)
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Download the paper and get the code. Try out our anonymous client and server demos for SMOB. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch wrote an interesting blog post on Monday about a “decentralised Twitter”, which was picked up by Dave Winer, Marc Canter and Chris Saad amongst others. I’m happy to say that we have recently described and shown how this can work. Alex has been the driving force behind a paper that we (Alexandre Passant, Tuukka ...
Fring Delivers the Most Impressive VoIP and IM Client for iPhone so Far (12)
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If an all-in-one VoIP and IM client on your iPhone is what you’ve been yearning for since the multi-touch device first arrived on the scene, and particular since the popular App Store officially arrived, news from Fring this week is bound to please. Yes, as of Friday, Fring has made available its first iPhone- and iPod touch-compatible application for the App Store [iTunes URL]. It joins two other consumer-focused applications, Truphone [iTunes] and PennyTel [iTunes], ...
Fring Delivers the Most Impressive VoIP and IM Client for iPhone so Far (3)
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If an all-in-one VoIP and IM client on your iPhone is what you’ve been yearning for since the multi-touch device first arrived on the scene, and particular since the popular App Store officially arrived, news from Fring this week is bound to please. Yes, as of Friday, Fring has made available its first iPhone- and iPod touch-compatible application for the App Store [iTunes URL]. It joins two other consumer-focused applications, Truphone [iTunes] and PennyTel [iTunes], ...
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Patrick said:
Anyone else used this? What did ya think?
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Nick O'Neil of AllFacebook.com recently posted a blog entry entitled The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead where he wrote As a joke I created the Bush Countdown Clock when the platform launched and amazingly I attracted close to 50,000 users. While the application was nothing more than a simple flash badge, it helped a lot of people express themselves. Expression is not Facebook’s purpose though, sharing is. Widgets or badges that help users express ...Shared by Javed (155)Contribute comment
