Friday, September 18, 2009
Viral Loop: What Are Your Facebook Friends Worth?
Feel guilty whiling away hours on Facebook? Now you can tell yourself it’s worth something–to Facebook.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Understanding Users of Social Networks
If the ongoing social networking revolution has you scratching your head and asking, “Why do people spend time on this?” and “How can my company benefit from the social network revolution?” you’ve got a lot in common with Harvard Business School professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski.
Friday, April 10, 2009
The Stream
“Controlling the stream” is not just one of the major life-challenges facing elderly gentlemen; it is the center of industrial competition on the realtime social network that we once termed “Web 2.0.”
Social Media Networks Are Music’s Curse and Salvation
In the golden age of the record album, friends would gather around the hi-fi system to share the latest music, most of them not paying a cent.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Micro Disruption Theory and the Social Effect
Relationships are so much more than the mere act of following or friending someone on Twitter or any social network for that matter. It’s the balladry of transcending online connections into real world relationships. It’s the cadence of interaction and the poetry of conversations that empower the human network and the escalation of the Social Economy.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Virtual Goods Bubble Looming?
The buying and selling of virtual goods is an extremely nascent market that seems to be heating up dramatically. Almost daily there are announcements pronouncing large virtual good revenues on the horizon and new forms of payments and rewards for the intrepid user.
Griefers Attack Muslim Virtual World Already Awash in Users
The idea for a virtual world focused on the Islamic lifestyle began five years ago, when CEO Mohamed El-Fatatry moved from Dubai to Finland in order to attend university. Raised in Dubai, El-Fatatry wanted wider horizons and a chance to see more of life.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
12 Great Tales of De-Friending
De-friending has always been awkward. Social networks offer one click “remove a friend” options, but it still doesn’t make the decision any easier.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks’ Power
In February 2007, a friend called Marc Andreessen, a founder of Netscape and a board member of Facebook, and asked if he wanted to meet with a man with an idea that sounded preposterous on its face. Always game for something new, Mr. Andreessen headed to the San Francisco airport late one night to hear the guy out.
Monday, October 13, 2008
The Bell Now Tolls for Social Networks
I blame David Hasselhoff.
Everything was going fine for the Web–the financial world had been unwinding its overleveraged excesses for nearly a year with nary a ripple into Silicon Valley–until the launch of HoffSpace, a social network revolving around the oogachaka-ing, burger-wagging actor.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Meet Ivy Bean–The World’s Oldest Facebooker, Age 102
Ivy Bean is a great-grandmother with a difference. At 102 years old she has joined the social-networking revolution and become the oldest person on Facebook.
The former mill worker, who was born in Bradford in 1905, showed an interest in the Web site after hearing care workers at her home talk about the phenomenon.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Plurk “Overlord” Loses Control of His Own Blog Hype
The best thing with which to mock a company that shouldn’t exist is a company that doesn’t actually exist. And San Francisco’s Internet hipsters won’t just snicker about your start-up behind your back; they’ll do it where your vanity Google Blog Alerts will find it. Plurk is only the latest target–a start-up that lets users post short updates to the Web, as Twitter does, but adds a timeline. Plurk’s faux nemesis: Pheltup, “the first social network that not only tells you WHO is doing WHAT; but also WHY.”
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Is Facebook on the Way Down? Depends on Who You Ask
There are plenty of folks waiting for concrete evidence that Facebook fatigue has set in. So each new data point offers up a new opportunity to prove that college kids, or grown-ups, or core users, or casual users, or whoever, have gotten bored with the social network. This year we’ve already seen drops in the site’s traffic from December through February, a move we chalked up to seasonal affective disorder.
Monday, April 28, 2008
House Set to Grill Military on “Human Terrain,” Social Network War
The House is set for hearings on one of the hottest–and most contentious–topics in Pentagon research today.
Every arm of the Pentagon’s vast research complex is scrambling to figure out how to turn social and cultural networks into military advantage. Social scientists are being embedded in combat brigades, to explore Iraq and Afghanistan’s “human terrain.” Computer labs back at home are trying to model foreign cultures like the weather and predict the next epicenter of unrest. But all of these projects are loaded with controversy. One of the biggest academic groups in social science has condemned the Human Terrain System program as unethical; prominent researchers and officers think the prediction project is pie-in-the-sky, at best.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It
Search is dead. Or at least that’s the opinion of one tuned-in venture capitalist I’ve been getting to know this year. We were recently discussing the drawn-out Microsoft-Yahoo-Google showdown and its larger implications when my fellow futurist issued his bold statement as a sort of summary dismissal of the whole multibillion-dollar battle. In his opinion, Silicon Valley’s Big Three are fighting over the scraps of the last decade of innovation while there’s a sea change taking place in the way people use the Internet–one that may leave the Web’s biggest players holding all the cards to a game nobody wants to buy into anymore.
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