Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’
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 8th, 2009
Jango is basically streaming online music. It is similar to free online radio stations with the significant exceptions being; one can customise the music played and it is a true social media site in that it links users with similar tastes in music.
Enjoying customised music from Jango is as simple as setting up a station (or several stations) at http://www.jango.com and then adding artists you like. As songs are played you are able to Read the rest of this entry »
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March 24th, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald published an article titled ‘Spread the News’, it which several of the social bookmarking and sharing sites were named and discussed. Overall the article is a good introduction to a few of the bookmarking and sharing services however I have this to add;
- None of the sites mentioned are particularly good for Australian (or New Zealand) content. There is certainly an opportunity for an Australian/New Zealand specific site.
- The sentence ‘they [digg etc.] return the favor by driving large amounts of traffic back to the content provider’s site’ is ambitious. Certainly digg, reddit and the others may drive significant traffic to the content site but this is rare and is dependent on users of digg etc. clicking on the link to the content provider’s site within digg etc.
- The author of the article, Kaufman, is correct in that the prime differentiating factors are the ‘people who use them and their sources’; Digg, for example is very simple to use however there is a lot of duplicate and often self promoting content because it is so simple to submit links. Read the rest of this entry »
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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….
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February 21st, 2009
ShareThis, the social bookmarking and sharing service, is making huge headway as one of the market leaders.
New ShareThis Widget
In the past few days ShareThis has launched a more relevant and user friendly widget (in Beta only for now). The widget is clean, quick and simple to use.
I use mixx quite a bit as a sharing service and it’s frustrating with other sharing services (e.g. AddThis and tell a Friend) that one needs to click multiple tabs or have a new window open to be able to share with Mixx. The new ShareThis widget is Read the rest of this entry »