Ben Israel on all things conversational
I was invited to contribute a few throughts for an article by ZDNet Asia on what businesses can expect from the upcoming Google+ corporate profiles. The article by Ellyne Phneah is available here, and...
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Yesterday, Ganesh Kumar Bangah, CEO of MOL (which acquired Friendster and recently signed a partnership with Facebook to become a payment provider for Facebook Credits), paid a visit to the OffGamers Facebook community page...
If you're unfamiliar with this slideshow series, view the rest here. Facts that stuck: 500 BILLION minutes spent on Facebook per month. 25 BILLION web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc. shared on Facebook each month 2 BILLION YouTube videos viewed per day 4 BILLION images hosted on Flickr - 13 times more than the U.S. Library of Congress ONE-THIRD of women aged 18-34 check Facebook when they first wake up - even before going to the bathroom (!!) 1 in 6 marriages last year occurred between...
Each week, I'm sharing interesting or important articles and content that I've read/seen. Hope you find these useful. Do drop me a comment below if you have other articles to share. What Role Should...
These are some of the best articles /news stories I found over the week that I thought you shouldn't miss: Experiments in delinkification by Nicholas Carr Steve Jobs at D8: Post-PC era is nigh by CNET The Future of Facebook Privacy, Politics and Advertising Revenue by Inside Facebook AP Stylebook Adds 42 New Guidelines for Social Media by Mashable Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos by Robert Scoble / Techcrunch Survey: Up To Half Of All Media Sites Plan To Support The iPad And HTML5 Video by...
Click here to download: SocialMediaGuidance_04072010.pdf (83 KB) (download) Click here to download: SocialMediaGuidance_04072010.pdf (83 KB) The Obama administration's push toward open government, including the use of web-based and social media is truly inspiring. The latest initiative from Capital Hill is a memorandum, titled: Social Media, Web-Based Interactive Technologies, and the Paperwork Reduction Act, that...
John Piper has this to say about why and how he tweets: I see two kinds of response to social Internet media like blogging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and others. One says: These media tend to shorten attention spans, weaken discursive reasoning, lure people away from Scripture and prayer, disembody relationships, feed the fires of narcissism, cater to the craving for attention, fill the world with drivel, shrink the soul’s capacity for greatness, and make us second-handers who comment on life when we ought...
... it was just 3.9 million users at the end of 2009. via: http://www.insidefacebook.com