Social Media Landscape

Mining Social Media Communities and Content

Tim Finin, 1:20pm 30 December 2008 Akshay Java defended his PhD dissertation this fall on discovering communities in social media systems and the submitted version is now available online. Akshay is now a scientist at Microsoft’s Live Labs. The citation, link and abstract are below. Akshay Java, Mining Social Media Communities and Content, Ph.D. [...]

How to use FriendFeed from Robert Scoble (Scoblizer)

Robert Scoble is said to be in the know when it comes to Social Media. He really knows the pulse of the Social Media industry in Scilicon Valley and beyond. In this video, Scobleizer shows you how to be a bigger FriendFeed Monster than Guy Kawasaki. This is what Scoble covers in the video: 1. Why friendfeed? 2. [...]

Tumblr Gets Money while Pownce Dies

Well the Social Media Landscape is ever changing, just like the skyline in Las Vegas. It seems like there’s a change every year there. Something blown up or something goes up. Such is the same with the Social Media Landscape. The beginning of December, Pownce announced they will be closing their doors. While I have an [...]

What is Social Media?

That is a question that is asked quite often. What is Social Media? It’s hard to define sometimes, but this slide show does a great job of tackling the answer. This was created by Lee White from Durham, NC, who has a consulting business specializing in implementing Social Tools in the enterprise. Social Media Is… What do you think? Did [...]

Why HR Should Care about Social Media

Published by Lord Yo December 9th, 2008 PDF Version: Why HR Should Care About Social Media Social Media are tools allowing people to share, collaborate and publish content on the internet. Over the last couple of years, the availability of such tools has grown strongly and led to a cultural shift, connecting people who hadn’t been connected [...]

Twitter friend inflation, the dynamics of influence, and why shifts in reciprocity are changing the social media landscape

Ross Dawson, December 8, 2008 2:17 PM US PT Anyone who uses Twitter will be deeply familiar with the issue of who you follow and who you follow back. As Twitter continues to gather traction, popular Twitterers are gathering followers at an increasing pace. If you’re on Twitter, by default you get an email [...]

Burger King Virgins Missing the Boat?

I’m not one to sit and watch TV but I recently had a nice stay (not really) in the hospital where it was all I could do, besides trying to get better. There’s a new add on TV from Burger King about Whopper Virgins It’s a short ad with a high budget. It’s done very well [...]

Building your personal brand on the Social Media Landscape

Gary Vaynerchuk talks about building your personal brand on the Social Media Landscape. He's the perfect one to speak of this. His vision and forethought on Social Media makes him one to listen to.

Social Networking Directory

The Social Networking Directory is a great resource. There's over 500 pages containing detailed information about over 3000 Web 2.0 sites. This should be on the virtual desk of anyone into Social Media!

Digg Experiment Results!

DIGG is a social media platform on the web in which individuals share information from other web sites. These are the results of a three day experiment done by Bob Guinto. PHOTO by mandy maarten One of the most important goals in communicating is to be able to reach the intended audience. The web provider DIGG I [...]