Articles in Real-Time Web
Facebook today announced an acquisition of Friendfeed – getting an innovative, growing service (still small by Facebook standards: 1m users vs. Facebook’s 250m) and, by all accounts, an exceptional team (comprised of ex-Googlers).
The twitter …
It’s no surprise that social recommendations work – they are based on connections, shared interests, references, etc. I’ve written many times that I believe conversation – enabling it, aggregating it, filtering it and applying authority …
In less than a week, Youtube’s hit video “JK Wedding Entrance Dance” has been viewed over seven million times (and nearly 1.5m times in the last 24 hours).
So what does that look like on …
Even if a small change, it is telling that TechCrunch has added a Tweetmeme “retweet” counter to their homepage… directly beneath the comments counter (and visually more powerful). It is also telling that the reteweet …
Starbucks was named the “Most Engaged Global Brand” in Charlene Li’s ENGAGEMENTdb study. I have written about Starbucks as a leading example of Facebook marketing (“A Lesson in Facebook Marketing and Engagement“) – this …
Over a year ago, I wrote about the need for analytics for the real-time web (and the potential business model surrounding it): “Twitter and Friendfeed: Understanding Referral Traffic; Arriving at a Business Model“.
Since then, …
Yesterday TechCrunch put on the “Real-Time CrunchUp” event to discuss what has been billed as the real-time web. Alongside several product demos and company launches, the most prominent discussion topics were:
- Business models and opportunities …
Techmeme has become one my primary navigational sources for daily reading / news (others include email, Google RSS, Facebook, NYTimes, TechCrunch, etc). Twitter isn’t yet there because it is simply too noisy to be efficient. …
I have written before that data around referral traffic could be a business model for both Twitter and Friendfeed. And as Twitter’s growth accelerates, I believe this more than when I wrote the article one …
Services and brands enter mainstream pop culture when they:
1. Reach critical mass, and/or
2. Provide value in a way that makes their usage critical
Use Facebook and Twitter as examples. From print to television, both are now …
