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Great post from Ryan Carson demonstrating the benefits of Quik or Seesmic for the instant interview
Online ad spending in Europe maturing, from survey by IABEurope on eMarketer
Latest live onlinevideo numbers, from Ustream via Readwriteweb
Mobile web stats, from Computerworld report
10 mobile social networks, from RWW
Mobile phones expose human behaviour, from BBC Online
And in case you didn’t see all the coverage Chameleon got for Sniff here’s the Telegraph’s take
…following MySpace annoucement on data portability this week, from BBC Online
Lots of social search engines getting hype this week like Flock and Yahoo Glue beta
Facebook counteracts privacy bandwagon with child safety announcement, from BBC Online
European mobile TV stats from New York Times
Couple of interesting P2P stories from Readwriteweb who says (like Skype) P2P may be the only model that could disrupt Google and stats on latest traffic from Wired via Jemima Kiss
Couldn’t post without a Twitter story, stats on microblogs, from RWW
Last another facsinating New York Times story about journalist, Michelle Slatalla, and her 10 year old daughter’s social media habits, via Danah Boyd
Myspace charges for app, from Social Times
LinkedIn ad rates, from Silicon Alley Insider
Social media challenging traditional, from Readwriteweb
Great Twitter case study on Zappos Shoes, from RWW again
“Real” Twitter numbers from TechCrunch
Podcasting ad spend stats from eMarketer
Brits addicted to social networking, from PDA writer Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Fascinating art installation from Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar combining online dating postings, touch screen technology and software to give an amazing insight into people’s online relationships. From Danah Boyd’s blog.
Web 2.0 technologies have given us the ability to communicate and collaborate on a global scale, creating new models of content creation and business as a result of largely unbridled innovation.
The problems associated with the lack of central control over User Generated Content (UGC) have also been driven by Web 2.0 technologies - copyright infringement, abuse and cyberbullying, privacy and internet bandwidth capacity - will continue to dominate (figures listed in today’s Twitter postings here) as Web issues.
But a sustained light touch for regulation is needed, so those that have created the greatest internet platforms encouraging the fastest technological, social and cultural developments in the history of the world can solve the problems – and they will.
Helen and i have just given talk to students at Leeds uni about social media. Only three bloggers in the audience but lots of interest at the end of presentation. Dont think number would be same in US uni.
Social media news
Youtube to pay out for user generated content from Jemima Kiss’s PDA
PDA round up from Jemima Kiss
Hull Daily Mail launches website written by local community from Press Gazette
New comScore stats highlight by The Register demonstrate fall in social networks popularity.
Having gone through the hype of MySpace and Facebook, it will be interesting to see where the cool kids will go next. Boredom is the big networks’ biggest threat because of our six second attention span, anyway what was I saying….?
Social journalism
Guardian’s vlogging experiment on Current TV here – with Seesmic gaining popularity and Qik (mobile vlogging websites) seems like early tech adopters are trying to get back to video blogging (but from mobiles) to generate conversation as vlog responses which was what Youtube was about originally and not just pirate content online
BBC bureau and correspondents/stringers around world map mashup from Stuart Pinfold
Mobile video reporting from Davos via Darren Waters at BBC Dot.life
Social media comment/ideas
Different take on WOM influence and reach from Guy Kawasaki
The idea of market readiness is interesting and certainly rings true for the explosion of Skype. Niklas Zennstrom often said that the reason that the internet telephony product got so big was because broadband pentration around the world had reached the right level (and speed). But in terms of PR we did concentrate on the early adopters and the half of the world that go out and seek information as opposed to the other half who are just happy to receive it.
Danah Boyd on Economist’s social networking debate
Facebook backlash continues from Neil McIntosh
Social media research
The next evaluation of social media measurement from WOMMA blog
Comscore figures show dip for Independent website from Press Gazette
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According to Experian social networks account for 1 in 5 page impressions in the UK - from BBC’s Darren Waters dot.life technology blog
Jemima Kiss’s PDA gives a great round up of this week’s stories. Also profile on YuuGuu computer screen-sharing business community here Most of the original article is based on this video posted on Youtube While the article was written to be extreme, we should know the background and motivations of the people that hold our information (if we have chosen to post it truthfully). Personally I see the handing over of our personal data as a trade off for being connected 24/7, so that if I witness something I want to publish to friends and the wider world, I can do so instantly via a blog or social media platform. Everyone is accountable. Guardian technology podcast with Bobbie Johnson reporting from Macworld Twitter mentions for US elections candidates from Mike D at 1000heads Labels: Chameleon PR, news, social media, technology
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According to Experian social networks account for 1 in 5 page impressions in the UK - from BBC’s Darren Waters dot.life technology blog
Jemima Kiss’s PDA gives a great round up of this week’s stories. Also profile on YuuGuu computer screen-sharing business community here Most of the original article is based on this video posted on Youtube While the article was written to be extreme, we should know the background and motivations of the people that hold our information (if we have chosen to post it truthfully). Personally I see the handing over of our personal data as a trade off for being connected 24/7, so that if I witness something I want to publish to friends and the wider world, I can do so instantly via a blog or social media platform. Everyone is accountable. Guardian technology podcast with Bobbie Johnson reporting from Macworld Twitter mentions for US elections candidates from Mike D at 1000heads Labels: Chameleon PR, news, social media, technology
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Social media
Wikia Search gets drumming - from Business Week’s Brian Burnsed
TechCrunch UK’s Mike Butcher’s take on using Twitter for conversation
Research
Web 2.0 threats from Quocirca’s Fran Howarth
KPMG and Economist Intelligence Unit research finds data concerns hold back Web 2.0 adoption on econsultancy
Social journalism
Guardian’s Charles Arthur - “Distribution is king, not content”
Press Gazette highlights problem of young/new journalists been worked to the bone in quest for content
Top Digg stories from 2007 from Press Gazette
Social journalism
What makes an online journalist from Kevin Anderson – Guardian/Strange Attractor
Online figures for national newspaper sites for December from Press Gazette
dot.life blog launches on BBC with Darren Waters and Rory Cellan-Jones posting – Rory is off to CES
News
Guardian’s Jemima Kiss’ PDA roundup
Bebo named top social networking site by Which for privacy and security from Guardian’s Rebecca Smithers
Wika Search planned launch 7th January 4 as possible Google search rival from VNUnet
Scoble booted off Facebook for allegedly running scripts on his page – not so open a platform then from TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher?
And the explanation why from Jack Schofield with more Plaxo PR further to up-for-sale stories
Cyber thieves target social sites from Mark Ward at BBC Online
Using social media
Future business uses for Twitter from JP Rangaswami
8 reasons to embrace WOM from WOMMA
2008 predictions
BBC Online’s Bill Thompson predictions for 2008 including Facebook location-based services
Library House social media big sale prediction
