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.
Management
Marc Andresseen on 17 layers of management
At the Fortune Brainstorm:Tech conference in Pasadena, Calif., on July 22, 2009, one of the lighter moments came when Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen spoke on stage about “one of the defining experiences of my career” when he spent 9 months as an intern at IBM in 1990-91 when it had 400,000 employees. He used a […]
Jumped on the bandwagon but who should steer?
So you joined the craze. You finally converted to our side and find yourself evangelizing the very networks and applications you once doubted. You go back to your desk, ready to restructure your Q2 goals in hopes of successfully capitalizing on social media. Enter panic. Who should you put in charge of your social media […]