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Social media uptake is driven by an audience of early adopters. This group are primarily technology enthusiasts with a natural inclination to sharing information and insight. It is therefore perhaps unsurprising that Google, Yahoo!, Apple and Microsoft ta
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User generated content and new distribution channels: If you hadn’t noticed already, user generated content is driving the new web, whether through video sharing services, blog publishing or social network services that users spend hours tending to.
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The key question is whether the lock-in from a social network site like MySpace (where all your friends are) is more significant than the lock-in from having my media stored in a particular photo hosting or video hosting site. If MySpace has only blocked
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Introduction 1 Web2.0 and collaboration 4 Why blog? 8 Web feeds (RSS and other geeky stuff) 10 Some corporate blog examples 14 Podcasting for business 16 Twitter and Jaiku 20 Facebook 24 Second Life and 3D virtual worlds 30 Wikis 39 Blog writing
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Similarly, only two-tenths of one percent of visits to Flickr, a popular photo-editing site owned by Yahoo, are to upload new photos, the Hitwise study found. The vast majority of visitors are the internet equivalent of the television generation's couch p
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Eine Studie von Melcrum besagt, dass über 40 Prozent der Kommunikationsabteilungen soziale Medien einsetzen oder einsetzen wollen, wobei Online-Videos mit 63 Prozent am häufigsten genannt wird:
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. I say the change we’re facing is much bigger than just the obsolescence of the pageview, much more fundamental: Size doesn’t matter. Relevance, credibility, and attraction do.
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Humans cluster between 15-25 - and 150 or thereabouts. That’s why military units are organized as companies and squadrons and businesses have departments and middle level managers. No one can remember more than 150 people’s names. So the logic foll
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News Corp.'s Fox, Viacom, CBS and NBC Universal are in talks about creating a video Web site to compete with Google's YouTube, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.While a deal is still far off, the four media companies envision a jointly owned site
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Which once again shows that if you have a hammer everything looks like a nail, and if you have a media company, everything looks like media. But the digital revolution isn't a media revolution: the web is a social phenomenon, not a media phenomenon or a t
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Because old media, and even middle age media, isn’t getting the job done. Consider this fact. 90% of all email, by recent estimates, is spam, probably closer to 95%. That would explain why open rates for email have consistently been falling. Direct mail
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There’s nothing unexpected or inherently bad about this — we just need to remember how quickly “social” can become “commercial” and managing the “community” can become managing the “marketplace.”Companies charge as much as $15,000 to g
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Secondly, scale for us, and me, doesn’t really mean traffic, or for that matter, scaled revenues...it means influence. The people who cut the checks for everyone else in this industry, including any and all of the consultants writing about this industry
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The biggest argument for hyper aggregation is modern life’s biggest constraint: time. No one can argue about the value of niche content, especially for niche-ists. However, most of the population at large falls in the middle. There is a desire to get th
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It was the most profitable industry in the economy. The reason, ultimately, was simple: media was protected like almost no other sector. Some media markets, like newspapers, were natural monopolies, because of simple geography. Others, like radio and TV,
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And that’s that you quickly realize that the members of the community feel strongly that the service belongs to them, and the control that you, the corporation, think you have is actually, in large part, an illusion.it will be the people themselves who
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We don't own or create content (which we think is an essential part of being a media company) — nor do we intend to. We help people find it, organize it and share it — anytime, anywhere, on any device. At Google, we believe that content providers larg
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The Third Wave, is the merger between the notions of producer and consumer. Toffler envisioned the world we now live in where the consumer is participating in the production of customized products and services
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Social media sites and search engines need to stay on top of this new form of content creation, continually analyzing data and scrubbing out the dirt. Sites overrun with web spam quickly lose their utility and might be banned from search engines.
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All of this points to a real problem in the social media world. The only yardsticks we use to measure the trustworthiness of a source are purely based on popularity - e.g. in-bound links, votes, etc. Now often popularity and quality are closely aligned. H
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The elegance of contextually leveraging your social network of users to do deals where you take a piece of another’s business and provide a better user experience is a winning one. There is no stick in the spokes of motion to crash your ride.
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So I doubt, therefore, that social media is a good business investment for the long term. I think it will remain—indeed, I would argue that in order to be relevant it must remain—a fringe phenomenon.
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What this all boils down to is a growing and substantial market need for new ad models and platforms. Granted, there’s a good chance that the dominant players of today, like Google and Yahoo, will end up being the ones to develop the new models.
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For media companies looking at the future of video, the elephant in the room is — why should anyone pay for video distribution if virality is the new metric of success? For agencies the elephant is — how do we charge for this value when it doesn’t f
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Nico Flores erklärt 3 Schwächen: 1. Was gut für das Individuum ist muss nicht gut für die Gesellschaft/das Geschäft sein. 2. Verwirrung um Trends und Ziele. Werden Entwicklungen überbewertet? 3. Einseitigkeit: es werden bestimmte Muster bevorzugt.
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The wise magazine will enable its community to speak among themselves. And it will also find ways to extract and share the wisdom of its crowd. This is true not just of magazines but of other, similar brands in other media
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he challenge for media companies is to find the right balance between participation and control, outsourcing and editorial guidance, openness and order. The walls between content creation and commerce are also falling away, as we’ve seen with everyth
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They're not scared of the UGC as much as they are of losing control. This line -- we want our brand in the marketplace presented in a certain way -- is the very heart of what's under assault in the Media 2.0 space.
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In the past, we built business cases based on ROI. Now we build it and build the business afterwards. In the past, "everything is forbidden unless it’s permitted." Now everything is permitted unless forbidden. Scarcity is about paternalism, a decision t
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if these grassroots efforts are generating value (and in fact, wealth) and their creative power is being tapped by major corporations, at what point should they start receiving a share of revenue for their work?
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One of the tricks to understanding the social value of the web is understanding the antisocial value of the web - how much value it delivers by helping us avoid unwanted, intrusive interactions that merely increase psychological transaction costs.
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Medienmarken können Zusatzgeschäfte tragen. Aber die Zusatzgeschäfte können kein absterbendes Stammgeschäft kompensieren. Irgendwann stirbt auch die Medienmarke. Der Mehrwert der gebotenen Information muss demnach unmittelbar erkennbar sein. Wie dies
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But the next deal, probably for Facebook, is going to come in at a higher cost -- probably at an unsustainable cost. There are just to many people desperate not to miss the social networking train before it leaves the station.
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Social networks are estimated to attract $280 million in ad dollars this year, according to eMarketer. Online video-sharing sites are estimated to attract about $385 million. EMarketer estimates that $15.9 billion will be spent in online advertisements in
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The Internet is changing the economics of creative work - or, to put it more broadly, the economics of culture - and it's doing it in a way that may well restrict rather than expand our choices.
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The right answer is to GO WIDE. It's time to get horizontal. Let me say that again. It's the ability to both run programs inside the browser window AND allow for applications to pass information to each other that allows media on the Web to organize into
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Yup, Media is about controlling pipes and Technology is (now) about horizontal layers, and on the Web, with all those packets whizzing around like bumper cars, there are no natural end to end pipes to be found. So, can you construct a virtual pipe and act
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Media brands are increasingly defined by communities, and now anyone – from individuals to software companies – can create a media brand. What’s changed is not the importance or the role of media brands, but rather what defines a media brand and wha
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Welche Krise der unkende Politiker ausgemacht haben will, blieb aber unklar. Denn mit Vehemenz erklärte Holtzbrinck-Geschäftsführer Prof. Michael Grabner: „Die Zeitungen sind überhaupt nicht in der Krise.“
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As tweens become teens, socializing online becomes more important than activities such as game playing. There are sharp increases in the use of instant messaging, text messaging, blogging, social networking and more.”
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At Facebook, MySpace and NBC are users “in control,” or are users being controlled by multi-million dollar corporate brand messages? Far from being in control, YouTubers were required to create content about NBC, for NBC and promoting NBC.
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Media companies are mostly vertical. They produce shows (or control the independant companies that do), market them, deliver them, sell ads, everything that touches their pipe, soup to nuts, they do.valuable virtual pipes - virtual media
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Control the pipe and you've got an economic engine to run ads against your content, charge subscriptions, sell voice calls and charge per minute - the world is your oyster. No pipes, no moguls, no media?
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Vermittlung der gesellschaftlichen Kommunikationen anderer Akteure: Der Kommunikationsprozess ist hier ein Many-to-Many-Prozess. Massenmedien sind hier (technische) Vermittler. „Beobachter zweiter Ordnung“: Beobachtung, Synthetisierung der gesellscha
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Social networks, which are rapidly becoming the portals of the next generation, must place high strategic priority on their communications functionality if they wish to continue their pace of traffic growth, usage, and retention.
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nstead of simply being associated with a file, a deep tag is associated with a clip from the file. Click on the tag and jump right to that part of the clip.
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Web 2.0 works great as an ideology, but maybe not so great as the basis for a media economy. Less control = less profit.Why did Google buy YouTube? Because they have to own it to control it, and they need to control it in order to monetize it.
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The new generation doesn’t sit down to watch prime time tv together. It’s on YouTube, which provides the asynchronicity of experience, personaliz-ability of tags, uploading, favorites lists, channels, and a play duration much better suited to consumpt
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Stop giving away the news and charging for the archives. Start featuring archived stuff on the paper's website. Link outside the paper. Start following, and linking to, local bloggers and even competing papers (such as the local arts weeklies).
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Definition von Social Media über die Participation, Offenheit, Konversation, Community und die Verbindungen zwischen den Punkten. Außerdem Darstellung der wichtigsten Phänomene wie Blogs uws.
