Category Archives: Blogging

Social Media Trends

Posted on May 12, 2009 by

Check out Universal McCann report on social media…Some interesting points: 73% of all users have read a blog 184M bloggers – which means a whole lot more blogs than that…Check out our old numbers here Categorization of posts: 57.5% belong … Continue reading →

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Blog is now active

Posted on May 7, 2009 by

Back from India. I am reactivating this blog and assigning a new domain name as well. This blog will now be a whole lot more active.  Update your links….

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Hit job – web style

Posted on May 7, 2007 by

This is a familiar enough story (Via SF Gate)…And the people hit have few avenues for relief: The first postings appeared soon after Sue Scheff, who runs a Web-based referral service for parents with troubled teenagers, advised a woman from … Continue reading →

Posted in Anonymity, Blogging, Identity, online communities, Reputation

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 →

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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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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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5 ways to get more comments on your blog

Posted on March 23, 2007 by

Fascinating survey post at the Freakonomics blog (Thanks Indus for pointing it out) asking users why do or why don’t they comment. (I love these guys not just because of the book or because they write intelligent/insightful stuff but also … Continue reading →

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A-List Bloggers Vs Blue Collor Blogger

Posted on March 17, 2007 by

There an interesting argument going on in the blogosphere. Its captured nicely in the exchange between Tony Huang (deep Jive Interest) and Jason Calacanis: Blogging is damn hard work, and harder still when you have kids to feed and are … Continue reading →

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Improving Online Communities

Posted on March 9, 2007 by

An online community, or for that matter any community, is built upon shared experiences of its participants. In the real world, people in a community typically interact with each other by gathering at same physical location, at the same time. … Continue reading →

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And What About Privacy?

Posted on February 17, 2007 by

Very interesting article in the NYT today about how people are blogging about their finances. When a woman who calls herself Tricia discovered last week that she owed $22,302 on her credit cards, she could not wait to spread the … Continue reading →

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