Business Week always writes such interesting articles: Social Media Will Change Your Business Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later That month, May 2005, is when NeoPets was sold to Viacom/Nickleodeon, 70 million kids online, more stickability than Facebook….
First, user generated content is now consumer generated media. Silly me, I’ve been using out of date terms. Sheesh. All joking aside, there really is a need for an industry/unIndustry organisation to protect social media creators i.e. members of social networks. i.e. you. It’s not just Bigpond raiding social networks for marketing focus groups or…
From NMA: Internet TV service Joost has acquired $45m (£22.6m) in venture capital. Five separate parties invested in the service, which launched commercially last week. Among the investors are Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Li Ka Shing Foundation, CSB Corporation and Viacom. CBS has already contributed more than 2,000 hours of content to the service including…