Great Presentation from David Cushman here focusing on Traditional Advertising Models with reference to Youth Advertising in youth social networks
Why Traditional Ad Models will not work in social networks (and what will…)
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From Global Neighbourhoods TV
“GNTV: Making a Splash with Social Media Measurement”
Video:
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Latest ComsScore data shows MySpace still far ahead of Facebook.
Data here provided shows a comparison between mail and social networking sites. The OpenSocial partnership effectively opens up the potential for the email providers to extend their platform out into social networking.
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Will it work on mobile?
We asked delegates at our recent event
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Teen social network Bebo plans to offer viral marketing services to youth brands. Keen to get a slice of the API pie, Bebo is provided a new platform called Open Media, partnering up with key household brands such as BBC, C4, Last.Fm, MoS, MTV and Yahoo!
Bebo currently maintains a strong beach-head in UK & Ireleand [...] [...more]
Michael Arrington from TechCrunch writes an interesting post today about a letter he received from an 11 year old college student desperate to reinstate his (the student’s) Facebook account. The student writes:
“I’m a college student at University of Michigan and Facebook has deactivated my account. I’ve noticed, from reading your blog, you have connections to [...] [...more]
A young man gets arrested for stealing from a hotel doesn’t usually make headline news.
Theft from hotels apparently cost the business upwards of $100 million a year just in the U.S. alone.
Although there are no official figures the most common item taken is the obvious beautifully soft towels. Holiday Inn apparently loses 560,000 towels a year.
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The world of social networking services seems particularly unforgiving. As if floating on the froth of a speculative wave, any sense of downward movement has the bulls running for cover, erasing web 2.0 platitudes from their blog footprint.
But Facebook seems to be a victim of its own success. The darling of web 2.0 media has [...] [...more]
mobileYouth/Wireless World Forum event Q3 2007
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