Category Archives: Social Media

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

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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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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Bad behavior in the blogosphere

Posted on March 30, 2007 by

Great piece in the SF chronicle today by Dan Fost about the recent firestorm related to vitriolic comments against Kathy Sierra (BTW she is great and I love her blog). The threats against Kathy Sierra, an author who promotes the … 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 →

Posted in Blogging, online communities, Social Media, Trust | 10 Comments

How to build a $50M online company?

Posted on March 18, 2007 by

Updated revision is also available at RWW Interesting post over the weekend by Dan Mitchell at the NYT. He took the cue from Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed, who pointed out a few weeks ago the scale a business has to … Continue reading →

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Digital Love

Posted on March 13, 2007 by

Recently, I heard this fascinating youth radio program about how MySpace is changing the way kids interact/hook up with each other. It also discusses how kids deal with like commercial characters like Jack (of Jack in the box), who have … Continue reading →

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Patent reform: Use social networking

Posted on March 5, 2007 by

First USAToday and now the US Patent office…It looks everybody is trying to leverage social networking to improve the services they deliver. In the case of US Patent office, following are the details: The Patent and Trademark Office is starting … Continue reading →

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I paid to get to Digg front page

Posted on March 1, 2007 by

Fascinating piece on the Wired web site, related to how the editors put together a nonsensical web site, and got it on the front page of Digg by paying for diggs at User/Submitter (check out our review here) site: Ten … Continue reading →

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Comments are important

Posted on February 27, 2007 by

Interesting piece on the future of communities blog (Thanks Chris for pointing it out). It talks about what bloggers can do to incentivize more and better participation in communities. “Given limited time and resources, where do you spend your time … Continue reading →

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