Social media is very much existent in China, but it’s like it’s on steroids: 298 million internet users, 105 million bloggers, 91 million members on their Bulletin Board Systems or BBS (discussion forums around different topics), and 58 million people on social networks. Much as I like Amazon, that’s not where I go to decide what to buy: but could Amazon or something like it channel prospective buyers in such vast numbers successfully? I was at a talk on how internet word of mouth (iWOM) works in China a couple of weeks ago. There were a few noteworthy

They are primarily one-to-many channel (blogger sets theme, tone and subject) and the social network sees the “finished product” - and can leave questions/comments/reviews. Like buying on Facebook from eBay or Amazon rather than logging into those sites themselves. Lastly I pointed out that widget revenue streams sit in the top left corner - consumer selling to other consumers While you are reading the presentation outline below I’d like you to think about the Twitter change today. Today Twitter turned off “see replies to those I’m not following”.

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As we have previously discussed here, most companies on the web have been silos.From Amazon to Netflix the companies have held on to the user information that they gathered, turning it into a business advantage.Open Social paves a way to a potentially new kind of web culture. Consumers are going to recognize thatif their social graph is portable and if their attention information is portable in social networks, then it should be portable at large.People are going to demand that their Amazon purchasing history and Netflix rental history is accessible via open API.If ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives R/WW Thanksgiving: Thank You Google for Open Social (Or, Why Open Social Really Matters) Written by Alex Iskold / November 22, 2007 8:39 AM / 13 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » When Google and others ganged up on

This could be anywhere from Amazon product reviews to technical discussion boards and even comments on related blogs. * Make these folks life-time "charter members" with special privileges and recognition as founders that nobody else will ever get. * Have levels and rewards for participating (but again, not money --that totally changes the motivation, or at least the perceived motivation). Think about how you feel when Fedex or UPS pulls up with that little Amazon box with the smile on the side. Creating Passionate Users About Search CPU Blog Past favorites Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain Code like a girl Ultra-fast release cycles and the new plane When only the glib win, we all lose How to be an expert Creativity on speed Micromanagement: the Zombie Function The hi-res user experience Mediocrity by "areas of improvement" Death by risk-aversion Crash course in learning theory Free Range Posts (open

Just like the networks of Amazon purchase data reveal interesting political patterns without revealing who the actual purchasers are, these "choice & search" networks reveal much about the organizations our individually unknown visitors are from. Finally, a NOT story with a happy ending. A blogger friend of mine was being stalked by someone who took great umbrage to one of the posts on the blog. How many NOTs in your network? [NOT NOT = Non-Obvious Tie] You probably can't answer that, because the connections are...

Just imagine if you could poke into the feed list of your favorite bloggers! (Something Anyone interested in social feed reading should check it out, as its the pioneer in the field. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/feedeachother.php Posted by: Udi | March 6, 2008 3:12 PM RWW SPONSORS Grab this swicki from eurekster.com RECENT JOBS POPULAR TAGS google facebook twitter iphone microsoft search mobile yahoo social media music video social networking apple myspace semantic

Rating and ranking books on Amazon does not create a community. We are getting some tight-knit blogging communities in some niche areas where there is a common goal to share information and getting together socially. For example, Jason Busch runs a great blog "spendmatters" in his area of procurement, and uses his blog to bring together his readers and other bloggers socially, in addition to being a content portal: http://www.spendmatters.com/index.cfm/2008/7/10/Now-4-Bloggers-and-Beer--Tomorrow-Night-in-Chicago Many people who are new to blogging / social media, do not realize

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Weve already seen this with blogging, one of the four major areas that contributed to the current web technology landscape as defined by Alex Iskold, with the creation of the Bloggers Code of Conduct . These two streams of information tell a great deal about who we are, so thinking about how we want companies to handle this data is important. With that in mind, four prominent bloggers and technology leaders, Joseph Smarr , Marc Canter , Robert Scoble , and Michael Arrington , on Tuesday drafted a "Bill of Rights for the Social Web." ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Digesting the Social Web Bill of Rights Written by Josh Catone / September 6, 2007 2:37 PM / 6 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » As we enter the digestion phase of the current wave of tech innovation, an important