User Generated Content is here to stay. Report from Bear Stearns assessing the effects of the Long Tail on Entertainment Industry, especially on television. Between content producers and traditional broadcasters the new subject is the aggregator/packager
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.
In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.
The size of downloads/views are estimated to eclipse 1.1 exabytes of data by 2010, with uploads growing to more than 9.1 petabytes. 23% of the dozens of UCG sites studied currently support mobile access, with others making announcements for this support i
The Law of Open Networks: The more open a network is, the more control there is at the edges, the more the edges value the network, the more the network is worth. Der Wert einen Netzes liegt an den Rändern (den Nutzern) und in der Kontrolle oder dem fehl