Monthly Archives: April 2007

Who participates in social media?

Posted on April 28, 2007 by

An interesting post from Bruce Nussbaum at his blog on BusinessWeek. I am summarzing the main data points below (the data is based on a study by Bill Tancer, an analyst with Hitwise, which measures Web 2.0 audiences): Only a … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Social Media | 1 Comment

Who benefits from open source?

Posted on April 25, 2007 by

Fascinating piece from Nick Carr where he refers to a study by Dirk Riehle, a researcher with SAP, on the subject on open source software. Besides the obvious conflict of interest, the piece raises some interesting questions. A new article … Continue reading →

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OpenID at Web 2.0

Posted on April 19, 2007 by

I was at the Web 2.0 expo  yesterday…I published the following post at the RWW  from there…Its a bit geeky but check it  out here.

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Comscore cookie study

Posted on April 17, 2007 by

Interesting study from Comscore about the behavior of users with regards to managing cookies on their computers. The data is presented in a somewhat convoluted manner, so let me highlight the key points: On average a user clear cookies about … Continue reading →

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Human Herd

Posted on April 15, 2007 by

Fascinating article in the NYT today (I am again quoting NYT…It seems they have really gotten their act together of late in the high-tech/network world space). The article talks about the theory of “Cumulative Advantage” or the “rich get richer” … Continue reading →

Posted in Digg, online communities, Social Media, technology | 2 Comments

State of Blogosphere

Posted on April 13, 2007 by

The new state of the blogosphere report (its called Live Web now – interesting repositioning by Technorati) is out now…Some of the interesting takeaways from the report are: 1. The total number of blogs is increasing (we already were counting … Continue reading →

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Web Attack – What to do?

Posted on April 10, 2007 by

Great article in BusinessWeek how Internet and Social media (despite the occasional nastiness) is making business become more accountable: Home Depot’s (HD ) CEO goes into an emergency huddle with his crisis management team after 14,000 bilious customers storm an … Continue reading →

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Compete.com: first Attention based metric

Posted on April 8, 2007 by

You are all probably familiar with my previous posts (New audience metric, AttentionTrust) about the need for better metric to measure the engagement level of users at a particular web-site. The issue with the current metric of page-views can be … Continue reading →

Posted in Attention, Identity, technology | 1 Comment

I’ll die for you!!

Posted on April 6, 2007 by

Some silly Friday fun: Via http://blog.leetsoft.com/2007/3/28/i-heel-you

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Buying customers – can it work?

Posted on April 4, 2007 by

Interesting post in NYT this week (It seems NYT is focusing more on Technology of late…Anybody else noticed that?) about how Microsoft is trying to get customers for search by creating direct financial incentives: (Picture from NYT) SIX months ago, … Continue reading →

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