Tag archives for API

Twitter: @Anywhere announcement

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 [...]

API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

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 [...]

Social Media: Social TV and building audience communities online

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

Salesforce Twitter: Don’t interrupt customer conversations

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 [...]

Social Actions Change the Web Challenge.

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 [...]

Social Media Monetization and Revenue

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 [...]

Ryan Air cancels 3rd party bookings

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 [...]