I gotta think the Cringely is a bit off in his article about the death of social networking. I think what he means to say, is the death of 95% of social websites as natural selection weeds out sites that don’t drive traffic. The big ones will turn a profit as the advertising model takes [...]
Read MoreIn Bob Cringely’s recent blog posting, “Social Networking is Just Another CB Radio,” he describes why he believes social websites are destined to crash and burn. His basic argument: there’s no business model, or at least not a very good one. If you have loads of traffic, you have a business model – advertising or [...]
Read MoreThought it was interesting to see the number of followers and followings the presidential candidates had. I’m loosely following the candidates’ use of the internet in their campaigns. In general, Obama does seem to have a much stronger online presence than any other candidate, twitter stats aside. I couldn’t find what appeared to be the [...]
Read MoreInteresting article in the Guardian. Facebook has 59 million users – and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won’t catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information – not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site.
Read MoreVia Josh Lee‘s twitter feed I was introduced to dopplr.com, a social networking site that allows to track your friends as the hop around the country. I travel quite often for work (and pleasure, when I can) so this seemed very appropriate for me. I entered my current travel schedule into my new account, and [...]
Read MoreSenior Analyst at Forrester Research Jeremiah Owyang created a flurry of activity in the Twittersphere with this blog posting. Twitter is fast becoming a important method for communicating, connecting, and finding people, news, and information. Call it social networking with an attention deficit disorder. And if you want to follow me, you can do so [...]
Read MoreWith all the social networking sites out there it’s nice to see some sort of effort to move towards standardization. Google’s OpenSocial is a set of standard APIs for social websites. The list of sites implementing it is impressive, including Orkut, LinkedIn, and MySpace.
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