Facebook will remain the dominant popular social network in many markets for many years, and it won’t have to worry about being “displaced” by another social network the way that it displaced MySpace. In the near term, this lack of competition will give the company some breathing room, but a more daunting threat awaits: the waning of social network pure plays’ influence by 2017.
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Big Data in the visual age
As we all know, there’s a huge amount of data on the internet– the biggest challenge is sorting it all and finding what’s relevant for you. This is such a big challenge that there’s a whole branch of the tech industry, called Big Data, that is dedicated to finding, sorting, and doing something with all this information.
If you’re wondering how big “big data” is, Microsoft’s R&D center in Israel is focusing on finding new ways to use it.
O’Reilly Strata: Why big data matters
A presentation at the 2011 Strata conference. The leading big data conference, Strata 2012, the leading big data conference, is coming up fast! And you can save 20% with the Socialmedia.biz discount code below. Strata debuted to a sold-out crowd last year and has become the top event in the field for the people and […]