Will Virtual Gifts Become a Billion Dollar Business? (3)
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It’s no secret that virtual goods are a big business but how big exactly, nobody has really been totally clear. Yesterday Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners released an analysis done by the company which suggested that Facebook could generate up to $43 million this year alone from virtual goods. How does Facebook generate so much money from their virtual goods? Well as Eric Eldon points out Facebook generates a lot of demand for their ...
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gregg said:
amazing how the revenue is overtstaed here but this story is getting major play. Good for our story!
Facebook Finds New Friends for Socially Challenged (2)
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The algorithms that run under the hood at facebook are pretty sophisticated. Facebook is able to interpret my social graph interactions and friends of friends connections to make effective recommendations for people that I might know (or should know). For the socially shy or people that are new to facebook this feature is pretty cool. Facebook recommends “people that I may know”. This makes it easy for people to make connections. I have found that ...
Blog Lite: Bimbl (1)
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Bimbl is a new blogging platform you can set up in 6.2 seconds (I did it in 5.7, setting a new bimbl record). Bimbl is blogging shaved to the bone. There are only 2 themes. You can post text, a link, a video, a photo, a quote– that’s it. Oh, you can post entries to the social sites. It’s somewhat Twitterish. Here’s the dashboard: So, if Wordpress makes you feel bloated, go on a blog ...
4 Questions for Every Early Adopter (36)
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The battle lines have been drawn today. You’re with us or you’re against us. You’re cool and hip or lame and square. No, I’m not talking about political lines (for once), I’m talking about the early adopters versus the mainstream, or as Robert Scoble framed it: the passionates versus the non-passionates. What, though, is a passionate (sometimes referred to as an ‘evangelist’)? What is the definition of an early-adopter? Quite simply, and perhaps obviously, it’s ...
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Mathew said:
Time sink or time failure, I reckon most of the 2.0 networking startups of late have been massive time sinks, or maybe I just need to be better organised....
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Dedalus said:
Let's say I have a manga avatar and keep the rest for myself.
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Tink *~*~* said:
I'm lame and square. I cannot figure out what business purpose Twitter or Facebook or even Friend Feed would serve in my line of work. I'm currently within an IT department inside a financial firm. The marketing folks probably use Twitter and etc. to monitor what all the early adopters are saying about the firm, and maybe partake in the conversation, but there's no application for an IT department whose clients are all internal and whose conversations should definitely continue to be internal.
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Haltse said:
i shouldn't be agreeing with this as much as I am but of late things are being remixed so much that the platforms are beginning to taste the same, I like pizza ... but every night?
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/forget-linkbait-just-copy-wikipedia/ (12)
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Most people mistakenly assume that creating linkbait means building a Top 10 list and getting it onto the front page of a popular social news website. In actual fact the best linkbait is to create a useful resource that people reference when they are writing about a particular subject. If you can create a few thousand of these resources and each one gets a couple of links per month then that equates to thousands of ...
4 Questions for Every Early Adopter (29)
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The battle lines have been drawn today. You’re with us or you’re against us. You’re cool and hip or lame and square. No, I’m not talking about political lines (for once), I’m talking about the early adopters versus the mainstream, or as Robert Scoble framed it: the passionates versus the non-passionates. What, though, is a passionate (sometimes referred to as an ‘evangelist’)? What is the definition of an early-adopter? Quite simply, and perhaps obviously, it’s ...
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Mathew said:
Time sink or time failure, I reckon most of the 2.0 networking startups of late have been massive time sinks, or maybe I just need to be better organised....
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Dedalus said:
Let's say I have a manga avatar and keep the rest for myself.
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Tink *~*~* said:
I'm lame and square. I cannot figure out what business purpose Twitter or Facebook or even Friend Feed would serve in my line of work. I'm currently within an IT department inside a financial firm. The marketing folks probably use Twitter and etc. to monitor what all the early adopters are saying about the firm, and maybe partake in the conversation, but there's no application for an IT department whose clients are all internal and whose conversations should definitely continue to be internal.
3.5 Rules - Social Selling Etiquette? (2)
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Getting out of the feed reader and commenting may cause extreme happiness and extra chest hair. Before I start let me just say ….TWITTER ROCKS!! I love when people share articles in Twitter that they are reading, but no one shares better articles than my mentor Paul Chaney (yes Paul….one day you will get tired of my plugs - he’s @PChaney btw) Paul shared Nathan McGee’s post on 3 Rules of Social Selling Etiquette which ...
Global Neighbourhoods: Social Media Global Report: Charlene Li of Altimeter (7)
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A year of milestones finds her on her own Charlene Li becomes the first person I've interviewed twice in this Global Report. I justify that because in the 54 weeks since the previous interview, a great deal has happened. She co-authored Groundswell the enterprise playbook for enterprise multimedia. She completed a nine-year tenure at Forrester Research and as I write this report, is putting the finishing touches on Altimeter, her new speaking and consulting service. ...
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Know your audience and write to their needs.
July Search Market Share Update: Everyone Dips But Google (5)
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Things move a little slower in the summer. Right? Well that’s what we’re telling ourselves anyway with our search share numbers being published a bit later in the month than we typically like to get them in your hands. Oh well better late than never. July turned out to be a return to the norm with everyone losing share to Google. With the exception of the Club Live enhanced Windows Live search numbers everyone’s market ...
Michael Phelps Officially Most Popular Person on Facebook (6)
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Last week I wrote about Michael Phelps’ rapidly increasing popularity on Facebook as the company decided to assist Phelps by promoting his fan page on the top of Facebook. The end result is that Michael Phelps’ fan page has become the most popular page on Facebook, overtaking Obama now attracting over 1.425 million fans versus Barack who has over 1.389 million fans. What does this mean for Michael Phelps? Well, first of all it means ...
Three tips for “company blogging” (35)
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This is my personal blog. I don’t run my draft posts by Google’s PR or legal team, other than maybe 2-3 times when I thought a post might have legal implications. But I have learned a few hard-won lessons. So, when someone recently asked me for tips about talking to the public, I couldn’t resist. Whether you blog for the company officially or unofficially, here are my top three rules of thumb: Don’t make hard ...
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Deeter said:
Matt's advice may seem simple but it isn't, primarily because it goes against the grain of "blogging". A blogger quickly learns that he/she has to be REAL. This means saying more than the reader expects, opening the golden doors of your inner sanctum (office) and sharing things as if they were a trusted friend. But, as Matt said, that is dangerous if your rep is linked to a corporation. In my opinion, that is one of the reasons why most "company blogs" fall flat and become, as Doug Karr once put it... "clogs".
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Joe said:
Very good advice from Matt. When I was actively blogging while at Microsoft this captures my thinking at the time.
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Young said:
Don't post when you're angry!!
10 Costly Assumptions on Web Development (11)
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I came across this article a while ago and thought that it was worth sharing with you guys. It basically covers 10 assumptions in web development that might be costing you money. The article was written with business and ecommerce websites in mind, but most points can be applied to blogs as well. The 10 assumptions are: People will know how to find your website People know what you sell Everything will go as planned ...
