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June 4th, 2009
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 functionality expansion in the industry over the next few years. As an example, there are so many Social Bookmarking sites with very few distinguishing features (product differentiation). Think of Delicious, Mister Wong and Backflip; what advantages does one really Read the rest of this entry »
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April 29th, 2009
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, Twitter, YouTube and the like are full of Swine Flu related content published by individuals. The Bookmarking and Sharing sites are Read the rest of this entry »
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March 25th, 2009
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 length than viewers would like. Along comes a site currently in beta called 12seconds.
12seconds is basically video microblogging (vicroBlogging). Just as Twitter provides the outlet for quick and short blogging (microblogging), so 12seconds allows users to submit, share and view video clips up to 12 seconds in length. Video may be submitted via email, MMS or via the website making submission from mobile devices quick and painless.
12seconds is still in its early days but is going to be very popular!
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March 24th, 2009
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 popular that the originating website cannot handle the traffic sent from digg.
Certainly one of the criticisms of the rise of sharing sites such as digg has been that posts (articles) from blogs which are controversial or sensationalist tend to gain more votes (and visits) than sites which are objective. Some sharing sites such as Mixx have managed to avoid encouraging sensationalism to some degree by making posting more demanding by encouraging tagging and multiple category selection (it is very quick, for example, to submit a link to digg as opposed to Mixx).
Blogs rely on visits. fushnchups.co.nz seem to have received their fair share!
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February 26th, 2009
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 Airport in Amsterdam yesterday, Twitter broke the news first. As the Telegraph put it ‘news of the plane crash involving Turkish Airlines flight 1951 near Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam broke first on Twitter, before being picked up by the mainstream media’. As we’ve said before….Mainstream media is being left behind….