It’s a genuine question. No rhetoric here.
I am working on a contribution to a white paper being prepared by Hotwire PR via Drew Benvie - my particular chapter is ‘Who Uses (online) Social Networks, and How?’
I have a feeling that my first stab at the answer - ‘lots of people in all sorts of ways’ [...]
Tag Archives: social networks
Who Uses Social Networks, and How?
March 13, 2008 – 10:25 am
YASNS?*
November 26, 2007 – 8:10 pm
Whisking through my unread posts today, two items struck me as demanding a little follow-up. First of all, danah boyd and Nicole Ellison’s Social Network Sites: Definition, History and Scholarship. The nature of the paper is pretty obvious from its title, though that is not to imply that it is not well-written, intelligent and provoking. [...]
"Top of the World, Ma!"
November 9, 2007 – 8:17 pm
News Blog - Daily Brief: Official: Facebook Poised to "Take Over The World" - Portfolio.com
Among other things, it will allow businesses to set up their own Facebook pages and then reach out to real, live users — that is, potential customers — based on the interests they have described in their profiles.
If those interests [...]
Lil’ Big Man
December 8, 2006 – 8:22 pm
Heather Hopkins posts on the rise of UK rocker Lil’ Chris (the short kid in the second series of Rock School, UK TV viewers) from a search engine perspective and showing the impact of social networks. The graph really says it all:
There’s little to add to Heather’s excellent post, which I just wanted to draw [...]
Let’s Be Friends
December 6, 2006 – 10:29 am
danah boyd has published a new paper at First Monday, an online academic journal. In it, she examines the concept of Friendship on social networks, as opposed to friendship in the offline world. Briefly, Friends (capital ‘F’) are about ‘identity performance’ - they reflect who you are online and offline - and may arrive on [...]
Battle of the Bandwaves
November 25, 2006 – 5:08 pm
Fred Wilson has published Comscore data on traffic to Pandora vs Last.fm. The results are very interesting. I had assumed that the two would be pretty much level-pegging. They both do very much the same thing, after all: provide a streaming radio station of new music based on your established tastes. The London-based Last.fm is [...]
How the Legal System Works
November 18, 2006 – 1:19 pm
Step One: MySpace partners with Gracenote to identify and eliminate copyrighted music on their network. (October 30th)
Step Two: MySpace announces steps to identify and eliminate copyrighted video on their network. (Nov 17th)
Step Three: Universal Music Group sues MySpace for copyright infringement. (Nov 17th)
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Techcrunch points out [...]
A Win for Wikis
November 15, 2006 – 3:19 pm
A new report says Wikis are more important than social networks when it comes to business technology buyers. The report, from Knowledge Storm and Universal McCann, is available here - registration required. It’s also a cut-and-paste protected PDF, the devil’s own file format.
But basically, it says that, of 5300 participants:
77% of these buyers have little [...]
MySpace: The Beast of Santa Monica
November 10, 2006 – 9:23 am
The latest Hitwise Consumer Generated Media Report reveals that MySpace’s dominance over other social networks shows no signs of slowing down. MySpace has a market share of 81.92% among the social networks, with users spending over 30 minutes on the site in an average session. This is the second-longest session time in the survey, with [...]
Web 2.0 in the Guardian
November 6, 2006 – 10:18 am
The Guardian reckons Web 2.0 is ready for the mainstream with its Weekend section dominated by a 15-page feature entitled ‘A Bigger Bang’. John Lanchester’s article provides the keynote to the section, in a piece which is well-written and clever:
a new wave of innovation on the internet, an innovation focused not so much on new [...]
