#social (271 links)
Some interesting figures from social networking company executives here at the Web 2.0 Summit1. Cyworld and MySpace are, more than ever, heads and shoulders above the competition.
The biggest barrier in the networked world is convincing groups of people, not just individuals, simply to use (or even try!) your software.
- Unit Structures: Why They Are Leaving Myspace chimprawk.blogspot.com
SNS attrition is real, but it is hardly as alarming as the media makes it out to be? Why? Because social circles are fundamentally dynamic.
- Edgework: Tom Coates at Like It Matters brianoberkirch.com
We talk about how to design for a distributed Web, how individual sharing leads to the creation of social and business value, and also a bit about Yahoo’s Hackday and how they are trying to put social software, open APIs and microformats to work.
- The Observer | Business | Myspace or his space? Does Rupert get the problem? observer.guardian.co.uk
there is the problem of how to 'monetise' Myspace activity. Advertising is an obvious answer, but the kinds of pages that Myspace users create - complete with flashing images, conflicting colours and unreadable text - are an ad man's nightmare.
- trailfire trailfire.com
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- MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | BBC unveils radical revamp of website media.guardian.co.uk
The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com.
- Responsible Shopper: What Does Your Shopping Support? responsibleshopper.org
Discover the good, the bad and the ugly behind the products you buy everyday—from clothing to shoes to toothpaste. Investigate hundreds of companies on a range of issues, including: Sweatshops, Pollution, Ethics, Discrimination and more.
A social enterprise creative agency....As well as doing work for other people, we also generate socially useful projects of our own.
- Conversate conversate.org
Lets you create instant online discussion spaces. It's simpler, faster, more polite, and less annoying than group emails.
- PeanutButterWiki pbwiki.com
- Upcoming.org: Home upcoming.org
Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site.