“Some media is the whack” says Chuck D..was he talking about us?
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Movements or Trends?
Social Media thinks it’s a movement but most of it only translates into a trend. How much of social media is a reality and how much is hype?
“Everybody had a feeling something was going to happen but nobody knew [...]
Social networking site Facebook has seen its first drop in UK users in January, new industry data indicates.
Users fell 5% to 8.5 million in January from 8.9 million in December, according to data from Nielsen Online.
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My note: now I note that I have been booted off Facebook some time back for contravening their [...]
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.
Will it work on mobile?
We asked delegates at our recent event
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 [...]
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.
Stayers [...]
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 [...]
mobileYouth/Wireless World Forum event Q3 2007