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Twitter: @Anywhere announcement

Online Communities, social media, social networks, Twitter, web 3.0 14 Responses »

Mar 162010

Twitter just announced @anywhere platform – notice who is missing? Google! Dunno why, Bing is there, but there must be a war forming between Twits vs Googlers. Anyway here’s my thoughts, right after the Twitter blog/press release:

Monday, March 15, 2010

When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn’t require a relationship model like that of a social network. Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from friends, celebrities, companies, media outlets, fictional characters, and more. You could follow any account and be followed by any account. As a result, companies started interacting with customers, celebrities connected with fans, governments became more transparent, and people started discovering and sharing information in a new, participatory manner.

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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Featured, Monetization, Money, Online Communities, revenue, social media, Social Media Business, social networks 15 Responses »

Nov 032009

Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. Web 3.0 is “little bits everywhere” – don’t force customers to come to your site, let them do purchase your products on their site, where they are, and let their social network be informed. An overview of social media monetization revenues. Note: you can subscribe to video on iTunes and Continue Reading…

Social Media: Social TV and building audience communities online

Featured, Media, Online Communities, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, TV 12 Responses »

Sep 282009

Just around the corner is a whole new world of social TV. Social media meets traditional content – audiences become online community members. Social networks around TV.

Facebook: Active users in Australia

Facebook, Featured, Online Communities, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, statistics 12 Responses »

Aug 312009

Facebook has nearly 9million Australians, over 6 million log in monthly. And growing.

Salesforce Twitter: Don't interrupt customer conversations

Featured, Online Communities, social media, social networks, Twitter 17 Responses »

Mar 272009

Social networks meets market intelligence meets customer relationship management systems might just equal spam. Spam: food for thought So this is what I see happening on Twitter: GaryPHayes: @SilkCharm Watcha doin’ Silk? SilkCharm: @GaryPHayes making a cup of tea. Gonna have it with a Tim Tam ArnottsTeam @SilkCharm Oh you like TimTams? Have you seen our new “I LOVE TIM TAMS” widget, you can add it to your blog! WoolworthsTwitter: @SilkCharm We have a special offer on Tim Tams today, only. Use your voucher TwitTams for 2 for 1 offer! HeartFoundation: @SilkCharm you can have a Tim Tam but don’t Continue Reading…

Social Actions Change the Web Challenge.

Not For Profit, Online Communities, social media, social networks 3 Responses »

Mar 182009

Social Web for Social Good: Change the Web Challenge Calling all web developers! Create a web application by April 3, 2009 that draws on Social Actions’ open database of 60,000 + actions for a chance to win cash prizes: 1st place: $5,000 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 Social Actions currently aggregates opportunities to make a difference from over 40 online platforms such as VolunteerMatch, Kiva.org, DonorsChoose.org, Idealist.org, and Change.org. We’re looking for applications that will share these opportunities to take action on the websites, blogs, and social networks that people visit every day. To be eligible to win, all Continue Reading…

Social Media Monetization and Revenue

digital economy, Featured, Featured Articles, Monetization, Money, Online Communities, peer2peer, revenue, Social Media Australia, web 2.0 219 Responses »

Sep 272008

Presentation at PANPA (part) and WebDirections 2008 (full). This article is about the various social media monetization strategies and the powerpoint presentation (embedded) shows some case studies and examples, including social network size, the revenue streams, valuations and profits. Click for full size of Revenues for Social Networks diagram. REVENUE SOURCE: The X Axis (the horizontal one) is whether the money comes to you (you are the social network host or provider) from the members in the community or from external clients such as advertisers or sponsorship from companies. REVENUE FLOW: The Y Axis (vertical one) asks if the money Continue Reading…

Ryan Air cancels 3rd party bookings

Featured, Marketing, Online Communities, social networks 4 Responses »

Aug 102008

eBay makes more money from it’s APIs than it does from onsite auctions. So does SaaS Salesforce. So does Amazon. Apparently RyanAir is choosing not to do that: Ryanair blocks ‘illegal’ bookings Ryanair is to cancel thousands of its own customers’ bookings after they were made through internet travel agents whose activities it says are illegal. The airline is targeting price comparison websites on which you can buy Ryanair flights without having to go directly to the Irish firm’s site. Ryanair says this is against its terms and conditions, and the technology used slows down its site for other users. Continue Reading…

Profiles: Identity fraud in social networks

Featured, Online Communities, social networks 13 Responses »

May 072008

I contend that the safest place for your personal information is online, in a social network, and let me tell you why… oh wait, let me set the scene first *moves some chairs around* I’ve been asked my a million people lately for my opinion on scams online and people having their identity in real life taken because they revealed too much on Facebook or whatevs. I have to say, I tend to fob off the questions. Not because they can’t be answered and, not because securing one’s real life identity from ID theft is not important, but because usually Continue Reading…

Google Gmail Contact List and dataportability

Online Communities, social networks No Responses »

Mar 062008

I avoid TechMeme as much as possible but this stuff swam in front of my eyes: 3. 2. 1. Contact. The API has landed — Have you ever been on a web-site that asked you for your Google username and password so that it can import your Gmail contact list? Did you think twice before giving out that information, hoping the web-site would not use it to access … Link Search: Ask, Technorati, Sphere, Google, and IceRocket + Discussion: ProgrammableWeb, The Real McCrea, techno.blog, Google Code Blog and Feld Thoughts – Discussion: John Musser / ProgrammableWeb: Google Releases Contacts API Continue Reading…

My Social Identities: ClaimID

Online Communities, social networks 3 Responses »

Nov 262007

I found OpenId very hard to set up and manage. I think it’s because there aren’t many uses for it, if you aren’t a developer, and it’s simply not used on sites enough. Plus I didn’t want to read pages of text – a graphic walkthrough suitable for a 3 year old suits me just fine, fanks. But ClaimID implementation is a different matter. Over the last few months there’s been a lot of discussions around our identity on the ‘net. For me – and I don’t think, in spite of what Lynne Spender said, that I’m that eccentric – Continue Reading…

New Community Management System

blogs, Online Communities, social networks, Wiki 8 Responses »

Dec 112006

Social Platform: I had a nice chat with Eric Schlissel, CEO, of Social Platform last week. They have a new CMS out – he called it a ‘community’ management system rather than a ‘content’ management system. Now that’s speaking my language! All-in-all, it looks pretty groovy. Here’s the list from the features page: Build Community The platform enables businesses to develop deep ties across its user base through social networking features including ratings and rewards. * Member Groups* Profiles* Search* Reporting* Events calendar, RSVP* Tagging, RSS Feeds* Points system* Contest Management* Banner Tracking* Membership Levels Communicate & Collaborate The platform Continue Reading…

Health and social networks

blogs, Citizen Journalism, Online Communities, peer2peer, Social Media Australia, web 2.0, Wiki No Responses »

Oct 112006

Hello my darlins’ I’m working hard at the moment on a couple of projects including this month’s two courses – citizen journalism and a social networks marketing course – at the Uni of Sydney. Come sign up! Anyway, on with the show! Phil Windley’s Technometria had this: Online Communities and Health Care Last week I put up a show from the Zend PHP conference that featured Adam Bosworth talking about “content” and the fact that it’s still King. Adam is thought provoking and entertaining. This talk is no different. Interestingly, Adam talks about content in the context of community (no Continue Reading…

WebDirections evening, 29 june

Event, Online Communities, web 2.0 No Responses »

Jun 072006

Howdy folks, I just got back from outta state.Maxine Sherrin from WebDirections sent me this. BTW I’ll be there. Web Directions Event: Lars Rasmussen of Google Maps and Dean Jackson of the W3C. While Web 2.0 is a term that has been done to death, it’s also clear something new and exciting is in fact happening on the web. Ajax, web applications and APIs are giving rise to a new breed of solution. One of the major players in this revolution is Google, and among their stellar applications is Google Maps. Web Directions brings you the opportunity to hear from Continue Reading…

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