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[Profy.Com] Breaking Through The Web to Real World Barrier: In the face of big budgets and huge marketing departments, how can companies and people online use Web 2.0 to bridge the gap between the online and offline world, without a big ad budget, and without resorting to spam and other black hat tactics that are half the reason off line users don't even check their email anymore in the first place? The answer is to take a cue from internet personality Gary Vaynerchuk.
[901am] Niches to drive social networks in 2008: According to a report by research firm Experian entitled “The Impact of Social Networking in the UK”, this year marks the rise of the so-called Web 2.0 clique communities or social networks focused on a particular market segment.
[Interactions - Creative Strategies for Business] Social media and the arts in Ireland: Good to see the Sunday Times Culture section taking an interest in the wider cultural implications of social media. Kathy Foley’s piece in today’s paper Clique Here (for which I was interviewed) touched on the usual stories (Facebook is .
[GeekMommy's Weblog] Here’s Your Sign”¦: I gotcher back, although if we’re proven wrong I’ll happily have my plate of crow & eat it with gusto.
[Blog] What’s the big deal with privacy online?: The major issue is, as a user, I have to trust that all my different social site credentials aren’t going to leak into the hands of someone that could potentially do harm with them. Some people use different passwords on every site for this reason.
[Zhenhiro's Weblog] Ten digital marketing trends to watch in 2008, By Evan Milton: Kids: They are already online in droves with virtual playgrounds like ClubPenguin (costs just over US$5 per month and last year was more than five times more visited than Second Life) and Webkinz (6 million unique visitors recorded in November 2007, up more than 300% from 2006), and playing games on websites created as part of kid-targeted products like toys (think Lego), films (think “Transformers”, “Tinkerbell”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”) and TV series (think “Sesame Street” and our own SABC’s “Hectic Nine 9”). And, of course, many of the young ones are on Facebook and MySpace - American research company eMarketer reckons there are over 8 million kids registered as users of some kind of virtual world today, and estimates 20 million by 2011.
[Stop No Future] Friendship Beta (you Do look better on mice pace): Such searches would generate results from Adult Friendfinder to Social Networking Sites that give the perception that no one could ever be alone. A few years ago, there were often times, that I bought into such beliefs.
[Spotplex Blog] Fast Times at Web 2.0 High: With Web 2.0 spreading like wildfire, and the Internet in-crowd getting louder and louder, is the Internet destined to forever exclude? I don't think so, but right now most of the Web 2.0 sites and services really only resonate with the like-minded peers of those producing the content, and are not as relevant to those not entrenched in the Web 2.0 world.
[Stop No Future] Friendship Beta (you Do look better on mice pace): A friend of mine wrote me an email last week that personifies the sentiment perfectly, (Secret Kudos, I was going to use that pen name you told me about but I’m not certain of what it is)the most popular page on the whole guardian website is ”˜whats cool on youtube this week: sporting clips’.
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