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? View more documents from CIC . ..and Tags: conferences Amazon China CIC Dell Facebook Inc qq Sam Flemming social media social network 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 things that Sam Flemming , CEO and Co-Founder of CIC , said:

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Early Inequality Research Before the Web, researchers documented participation inequality in media such as Usenet newsgroups, CompuServe bulletin boards, Internet mailing lists, and internal discussion boards in big companies. Furthermore, at the time I wrote this, 167,113 of Amazon�s book reviews were contributed by just a few "top-100" reviewers ; the most prolific reviewer had written 12,423 reviews. use it.com Alertbox Oct. 2006 Participation Inequality in Social Design Jakob Nielsen sAlertbox, October 9, 2006: Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users

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). Study successful user group communities for examples (like, say, javaranch.com--3/4 million unique visitors a month ). * Teach users how to help other members by creating documents (or getting

8221; Here is a bit from the upcoming book by Etienne Wenger, John Smith and I that talks about reification. “Members of a community of practice need to interact with each other as well as produce and share artifacts such as documents, tools, and links to resources. Indeed, the theory of communities of practice views learning together as involving the interplay of two fundamental processes of meaning making: Members engage directly in activities, interactions, conversations, reflections, and other forms of personal participation in the learning of the community; members produce

business-to-customer websites, like Amazon, eBay and Etsy, all offer a range Blogs, wikis and document sharing, IM and twitters, multimedia tools, canvassing Document Sharing: Face-to-face time, it's easy for them to get their heads around sharing documents in real BLOG A Practical Guide to Implementing Implementing Web 2.0 (aka

The document outlines how companies should treat the data they collect from (and on) users of social web sites. Sites supporting these rights shall: Allow their users to syndicate their own profile data, their friends list, and the data that’s shared with them via the service, using a persistent URL or API token and open data formats; Allow their users to syndicate their own stream of activity outside the site; Allow their users to link from their profile pages to external identifiers in a public way; and Allow their users to discover who else they know is also on their site, using

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