The paradigm shifts again.. Google Wave As written in the #140conf piece, we discussed the paradigm shift that occurs in social media. Before we had written that piece I had not seen the Google Wave developer video that Google unveiled to developers. The social media paradigm shifts almost continiously. MySpace was all the rage...
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Why it is important for businesses to be involved in Social Media-Part 1
Last week Dominos Pizza got a heavy education in the power of Social Media. Two Domino’s Pizza employees in Catawba County, N.C., took it upon themselves to pull a stupid stunt and videoed themselves sticking food in bodily places and then placing it on the food that was being prepared. Then not satisfied with...
Facebook rolls back TOS
In a post here Mark Zuckerberg announces that Facebook is going to restore their old TOS for the time being. This action was taken in response to the masses of people irate about the change in the TOS where Facebook basically gave themselves perpetual license to content posted on Facebook, even if the content...
Is Mark Zuckerberg answering the right question about Facebook?
Alexander van Elsa points out a very interesting observation here. “What exactly does Facebook do with all the user data has been collected on Facebook, and how exactly does it monetize that, even after a user has deleted his or her account?” Mark’s post doesn’t even address this issue. Alexander is spot on in...
Facebook responds…..
Facebook recently announced that they were modifying their TOS, basically granting them perpetual license to your data. Mark Zuckerberg has responded to the mass posting all over the social media scene. Click here for Mark Zuckerberg explanation about the the TOS rewrite
Facebook alters term of service
Facebook has announced that it is altering it terms of service. This has generated a firestorm of publicity, mostly negative, about the TOS for facebook and inviting futhur scruinty to the other social media players. In all fairness, you are presented with the TOS before you accept your accounts, and you SHOULD read those...
Social media revisited
If you are new to social media, you might be wondering what exactly Social Media? Robert Scoble does a very good job of explaining social media here.
Yugoslavia domain to finally be retired
According to the Associated Press, CNN is reporting that the organaziation called Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is reponsible for the internet domain naming, has come up with a plan to phase out the .yu domain within the next 3 years. The country of Yugoslavia was dissolved about 4 years...
Social Bookmarking Google-style
Google has unleashed a new service called “Shared Stuff” that allows you to share or e-mail any web page with your friends. You drag a “E-mail/Share” button to your bookmark bar in your browser, which allows you click the button on any web site that you feel that is worthy of sharing with your...
What is Social Media?
To talk about Social media, we need to define what social media is: Taken from Wikipedia: Social media describes the online tools and platforms that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other. Social media can take many different forms, including text, images, audio, and video. Popular social mediums include...