CurrentTV has a great parody of social networking services, including MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and Second Life. "You cannot escape the lure of social networking!" Thanks to Mark Glaser for the pointer.
Social networks
NY Times to test crowdsourcing its data
From my new post at the IdeaLab blog: News about a potentially big deal in the newspaper industry broke just before the holiday weekend. No, not another story about a chain swallowing another chain, or news about the formation of yet another online advertising platform that’s doomed to underperform. Instead, this was a kind of […]
Top 100 Social Media Sites: Guess who’s #1?
I’m not into bragging, but thanks to VirtualHosting for naming this blog the #1 Social Media/Web 2.0 blog in all the land. Here’s their Top 100 list. There are a few on here I hadn’t heard of and will be checking out (I often leave the marketing/PR social media angle to others). Tom Pick runs […]
At Digital Hollywood 2007
Back now from Digital Hollywood in LA. Met a lot of great folks there, like David Gale of MTV New Media, Eric Forst of Visible Technologies, Alex Nesbitt of DigitalPodcast.com, Ann Greenberg of Sceneplay, James Segil of Edgecast, Brenda Garcia-Wierzchucki of Archos and Mark Rotblat of TubeMogul, among others. And saw a lot of familiar […]
A talk with the CEO of Ning
Last week at a bloggers reception in Palo Alto, Calif., I finally had the chance to meet Gina Bianchini, CEO and co-founder of Ning, a startup that lets anyone create any kind of social network. Ning hosts it for you for free. Ning has latched on to the long tail of this burgeoning phenomenon. Over […]