I browsed through the Reddit site, and at first, I thought it was just another interesting website where users voted on the content. However, after reading this site, which I stumbled upon while trying to understand how to use Reddit, I see that it’s a community, and that community can be a little feisty. Apparently [...]
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As we work and study social media throughout this class, I am beginning to feel that the Internet world is run by a group of powerhouse search engines and social media platforms. Up until recently, those entities only competed against their own kind: Microsoft and Yahoo compete against Google, and Twitter and LinkedIn war to [...]
I found this great picture of Twitter’s history.
This one- number five- really deserved its own post. Botanicalls This is really odd and remarkably cool. A person can buy the Botanicalls sensor and place it in the soil of the potted plant. A built in controller translates the readings to information” that can be sent over the internet through an embedded ethernet connection.” [...]
One interesting thing about Twitter, and something I certainly didn’t know, is that only 11% of the users are between 12 and 17 years old. So, teenagers are not responsible for the drastic increase in its popularity. Adults are the primary users. And the question is- for what? One I personally find Twitter to be [...]
As we have been reading about whether online news media can fill the void inevitably left by the dying industry of print news, I have concluded that one of the most important steps new media can take in doing so is to first acknowledge that a void exists. I think one of the major fallbacks [...]
Everyone knows what is causing the dilemma the newspaper industry is currently facing, especially small, local papers. Few people will pay for news that they can get for free. Makes sense to me. A lot of news sites offer, with varying degrees of value, local news. CTCentral and Topix are some that offer news of [...]
In 2005, Dave Taylor said the following about Meetup beginning to charge a fee for its service: When your business is a commodity service, how do you survive the transition from free to paid without sweetening the transaction? The answer: You don’t. And that’s sad, because Meetup.com was a fascinating little company. I joined Meetup [...]
As I finish Shirky’s book, I am intrigued by the simplicity of one of his final explanations for a workable formula for success, specifically the success of certain social networking platforms, but the formula is useful enough to be applied to multiple companies. In Chapter 11, he breaks it down into three basic elements: promise, [...]
Below is a short clip of Skirky, in a radio interview, addressing the authority and “power of one.” This video brings a different perspective to the idea of self-publishing. He points out that Wikipedia is a great example of the power of one voice, especially when that voice speaks for the value of speaking, not [...]