Gary Eckstein Social Media 0 backflip, blog, blogger, blogging, blogs, bookmarking, competitive advantage, delicious, facebook, gaia, Internet, linkedin, mister wong, myspace, myyearbook, Nielsen, product differentiation, sharing, slashkey, social bookmarking, social bookmarking sites, Social Media, social networking, social networking site, social networking sites, tagged, twitter, web
Nielsen this week released comparisons showing the enormous growth in the amount of time spent on the most visited Social Media sites from April 2008 to April 2009. The numbers are truly astounding. The Social Media / Social Bookmarking / Sharing industry is still in its infancy. We’ll definitely be seeing consolidation and / or [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 2 bookmarking, cdc, flu info, google, Internet, it, pandemic, search, sharing, swine flu, swine influenza, technorati, twitter, web, website, widgets, WordPress, world health organization, youtube
Swine influenza is the first pandemic since the widespread sharing of information via the Internet. The last pandemic was the 1969 Hong Kong pandemic at which time the Internet did not exist. The amount of information relating to swine flu which is available on the Internet is huge (but unfortunately not all entirely accurate). WordPress, [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 0 blogs, sharing, streaming, twitter, youtube
YouTube is extremely popular. YouTube (and other streaming video sites such as Flickr, Dailymotion etc.) provides a sharing platform for all sorts of video whether that be video blogging, TV clips, movie previews or any other video. A common criticism of YouTube and other video sharing sites is that the videos can be longer in [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 0 blog, bookmarking, digg, mixx, sharing
A blog, fushnchups.co.nz, has received the equivalent of the digg Effect. Various newspaper and online articles have named the controversial content of the blog in the past few days. This has led to fushnchups.co.nz being unavailable (at the time of this articles writing). The ‘digg Effect’ is a reference to articles in digg becoming so [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 2 cnn, mainstream media, sharing, Social Media, twitter, web, web 2.0
And yet again Twitter is showing that it is at the forefront of world news. As CNN made it’s name during the Kuwaiti war in 1991, so Twitter showed during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that it is the new ‘media’ force to be reckoned with. With the awful Turkish Airlines plane crash near Schiphol [...]
