Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams?
Top Bloggers Spend Less Time Blogging I’ve noticed a gradual change in what we know as blogs when Scoble and Shel wrote the book on Naked Conversations. Both of them are now focused on micromedia: Shel has an upcoming book on Twitterville, and Scoble spends more time promoting Friendfeed than his own blog. Secondly, I…
Report: Companies Should Organize For Social Media in a “Hub and Spoke” model
I often get asked by brands: “How should we organize our company for social media?” or “Which roles do we need”, or “Which department is in charge”. So for our latest report (clients can access all the details) answers just that, it has data and graphs about spending, brand maturity in the social space, which department…
Where Your Facebook Pictures and Friends are Featured, “Prototype Experience” Provides A Social, Contextual Video Trailer
Remember early Jib Jab cartoons where you’d manually upload your own photo and that of your friends? Now, it’s much easier with just a few clicks to Facebook Connect. Last week, I had dinner with Chris Pan (linkedin, twitter), Head of Brand Solutions at Facebook, who pointed me to a new social interactive marketing advertisement…
Three Years
I’m all smiles today, as I reflect on three years of blogging at web-strategist.com. Although I’ve been blogging about web strategy previously on Blogspot, Yahoo 360 for a few years prior, things really started to get serious when I launched this domain. Over the three years, the technorati rank of this blog has settled around…
Contextual Ads Based Off Social Network Profile: Twitter and Facebook
Things are moving very quickly now, in fact I was pleased to learn about these contextual ads from my new friend Cory O’Brien in SF yesterday. In my latest report “The Future of the Social Web” we pointed that in the near future we’ll start to see web pages dynamically created based on user profile…
Trends: Impacts Of The Era of Social Colonization –Every Webpage to be Social
One of the key findings from the very popular report The Future of the Social Web (which has been translated into over a dozen languages by the community) is that identity technologies like Facebook Connect, OpenID, as well as existing identities will soon colonize the web, making every webpage a social experience –even if they…
People on the Move in the Social Media Industry: June 15, 2009
Despite there being many layoffs in the startup space. I’ve started this post series (see archives) to recognize and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions. Please help me congratulate the following folks: John Yamasaki @jyamasaki on Twitter joned the Seesmic team as a Community Evangelist. Congratz Yama! Stepahnie Agresta joins…
Looking Behind the Curtains on the Social Media Stage: Humans Don’t Scale
I’ve been watching this space for a few years now, and I’ve started to notice that the people (often those that we think of that are at the upper echelons) are not able to scale, as a result here’s what they’re doing to compensate: Many social media bloggers don’t even manage their own accounts, they…
The Future of the Social Web: In Five Eras
The Future of the Social Web: In Five Eras [By Jeremiah Owyang] Expect the Groundswell to continue, in which people connect to each other –rather than institutions. Consumer adoption of social networks is increasing a rapid pace, brands are adopting even during a recession, so expect the space to rapidly innovate to match this trend.…
Using Google Search to find interesting Twitter Users
Posted by: Justin Parks In: Featured| Social Networking| twitter Currently: Home » Featured » Using Google Search to find interesting Twitter Users I recently wrote an article about using Google search results to find out who has made one of your tweets a favourite by a particular search string and things have developed from there.…
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