Social Media Archive

• 0November 16, 2010

  How Important Have Apps Become?

  It goes without saying that as more and more people transition to smartphones, the app industry will only get hotter. Pew’s recent report on mobile apps provided us with a wealth of information on the subject, including use demographics, most popular apps, frequency of use, and cost/number of downloads. These numbers make it clear that apps are becoming an increasingly important part of our [...]

  Read More

• 0November 15, 2010

  Web 2.0 Summit: Points of Control Map

  With the Web 2.0 Summit 2010 kicking off in San Fransisco this week I thought I’d put up a link to the super cool, and super detailed, interactive Web 2.0 Summit Points of Control Map.
  “As themes for conferences go, Points of Control is one of our favorites. Our industry over the past year has been driven by increasingly direct conflicts between its major players: Apple has emerged as a major [...]

  Read More

• 0July 19, 2010

  What the F**k is Social Media NOW?

  It’s that time again! Time for another asterisk-ridden diatribe on the state of the state in social media (for those of you who prefer asterisk-free diatribes, here’s a cleaner version)!
  Except this year, we’re not merely asking “What the F**k is Social Media?” We’re asking “What the F**k is Social Media NOW?”
  In 2008, when we published the original What the F**k is Social [...]

  Read More

• 0July 07, 2010

  The Facebook Economy: Economics of The Ecosystem

  There are 550,000+ apps that are used on Facebook. Seventy percent of users engage with apps each month. There are one million app developers. Zynga, the top app developer, made $250 million in 2009. Of that amount, $80-$150 million is estimated to be profit, more net profit than Facebook itself made.
  The most popular Facebook apps are: [...]

  Read More

• 0June 17, 2010

  The New Xbox Experience: E3 Keynote

  It’s official, Project Natal has moved beyond its codename pseudonym and received its official name… Kinect. I think it’s perfect. Combining the key aspects of the Xbox 360 add-on: Being virtually connected to our consoles with the physical kinetic attribute of how we will be controlling them in games, entertainment, and more.
  One of the coolest things about the new Xbox 360 Experience [...]

  Read More

• 0May 12, 2010

  Web 3.0: The Movie

  A story about the Semantic Web by Kate Ray
  Whether you call it Web 3.0, the Semantic Web, or the Giant Global Graph… due to the massive amounts of information on the web, relational databases with linked data are inevitable. The above, roughly 15 minute, video provides a good overview of the semantic web, which is essentially a move to “extend principles of the Web [...]

  Read More

• 1May 10, 2010

  Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh)

  If Facebook was a country, it would now be the third largest country in the world. It passed the U.S. earlier this year and is now eclipsed only by China and India in terms of raw population. That mind-boggling statistic — along with a few dozen more — are showcased in the above video, demonstrating social media’s explosive growth in recent years. Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman, the video [...]

  Read More

• 0April 29, 2010

  March 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings - comScore

  comScore Releases March 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings
  YouTube Viewers Watched Average of 96 Videos per Viewer in March
  RESTON, VA, April 29, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released March 2010 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that more than 180 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. [...]

  Read More

• 0April 15, 2010

  Morgan Stanley Internet Trends: 2010

  A couple of days ago Morgan Stanley released their annual Internet Trends report. As usual it’s a great resource for the current state of the Internet, including the mobile web, providing the latest stats, trends, forecasts and more.

  Presented by Mary Meeker on April 12, 2010 [...]

  Read More

• 0January 24, 2010

  Social Technographic Profiles

  Nearly three years ago, Forrester Research released a study of Social Media where they grouped Internet users into six segments of social media usage, dubbed Social Technographic Profiles. These six profiles – Creators, Critics, Collectors, Joiners, Spectators, and Inactives, became widely used in the industry to describe the behaviors of consumers in social media, and to help inform corporate social [...]

  Read More