A Gowalla heat map of Austin, Texas, by Bramus on Flickr Evaluating the business potential of location-based social applications—is the tail wagging the dog? If you read any mainstream media or social media sites, you might have started to get the impression that a Foursquare, Gowalla or Loopt application is your only hope to make […]
Social media now firmly entrenched in our lives
Top 10 Sectors by Share of U.S. Internet Time RANK Category Share of Time June 2010 Share of Time June 2009 % Change in Share of Time 1 Social Networks 22.7% 15.8% 43% 2 Online Games 10.2% 9.3% 10% 3 E-mail 8.3% 11.5% -28% 4 Portals 4.4% 5.5% -19% 5 Instant Messaging 4.0% 4.7% -15% […]
Why do people still download & install applications?
Socialmedia.biz’s David Spark talks about why people still download and install applications, plus what makes applications successful.
Social media: Increasing access to public meetings
Social media increases accessibility to public meetings from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I‘m at NewComm Forum this week, probably the best gathering of minds around social media, marketing and new media anywhere. (I’ll be speaking Friday about the future of journalism.) It’s also a superlative venue for networking. Last year I met Kathleen Clark of […]
Real-time web dictates change in industries
At SxSW, Jeff Pulver talks about his 140 Conference. He says it’s not a conference about Twitter, it’s a conference about how the real-time conversations are motivating behaviors and telling industries what they can and can’t do.