Fear of Facebook: Thoughts On The Meaning of Social
Things aren’t getting any better in terms of privacy related fears. My friend @mauricioswg recently asked on twitter: “Would Facebook revert to being more private with a massive movement of account cancellations?” Great question. Facebook hasn’t needed to deal with that kind of churn so far. But look how fast myspace lost its mojo. The […]
Merging Social Streams Into Multimedia Conversations
I found myself intrigued by the launch of Echo E2 during Social Media Week in San Francisco earlier this month. The new Echo service is a StreamServer and App Store that allows a company to bring together social media activity…
Big in 2011: Curation and Consultation
Over the past two months, I’ve bookmarked less than a half dozen articles as worth noting for the insights they provide. Looking back over them this past week, I’ve noticed two dominant themes that are core to the nature of collaboration and the social web. These two themes, curation and consultation, will both be key […]
When Will Facebook’s Bubble Burst?
Many have detected signs of irrational bubble economics in the news that investment bank Goldman Sachs has brokered a $500 million investment in Facebook, giving the social networking website a total value of around $50 billion. It seems that excitement about social media is reaching fever pitch, leading to enormous pre-IPO valuations for the likes […]
To Succeed with Social, You Need a Plan
Most businesses today are wondering how social media can help them be more successful. Perhaps they should be using tools such as Facebook and Twitter to interact with customers? Or maybe they ought to set up their own collaboration and…
Building Disruptive Business Structures in the Cloud
Sometimes it seems that we miss the most obvious things with all our buzzword discussions about cloud computing and social media. The essential change enabled by these technology artefacts is quite simply that we can all communicate and collaborate with…
