It’s all about perspective: Facebook has only 200 million users WORLDWIDE.  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? There is so much talk about Facebook, Twitter and the like that sometimes we forget there are much more wide-reaching platforms - in a different part of the world. 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

Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. Embeddable media is critical for spreadability and distribution – YouTube is a clear example of content that is watched 30% or more of the time “off site”… through an embed on Facebook, blogs and so on. Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Web 3.0

Rage Against the Machine on Facebook They got it thanks to an extraordinary underground Facebook campaign, beating X-Factor winner Joe McElderry. Whatever your opinions of Rage Against the Machine, Simon Cowell, Facebook or Joe Mcelderry, this has been a great show of social media might. But this year Jon Morter ( @Jon_Magic ), a HiFi Technician from Essex,  Rage Against the Machine (RATM) have just had their first UK Number 1. The successful single, Killing in the Name , was released over 15 years ago.

About Contact Sharing at Work Subscribe by RSS Subscribe by email Setting up an internal Facebook might just solve your company’s communications and engagement problems By Daniel J. Let’s imagine I download and install  fbOpen , the open source version of the Facebook software. Pritchett on March 20th, 2009 I got pretty excited and tweeted about this throughout the day. Who knew I was looking for diversity? T his morning I had the privilege of participating

The study gives each of these Top 100 brands a score based on their engagement across more than ten social media channels, including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, wikis, and discussion forums. Amazon (88) Tags: Matt Rhodes Social Media altimeter group Brand Business charline li co-creation customer communities EBay facebook freshminds FreshNetworks Google Microsoft online communities online Image by communista_unicorn via Flickr There are some great examples of brands using social media that we use a lot at FreshNetworks .

Whammy one: Microsoft has inked deals with both Facebook and Twitter, allowing status updates to be integrated into the Bing Search engine. Amazon is also confounding the recession , with a Q3 profit surge of 68% year on year. Founder Jeff Bezos lays the laurels at the feet of Kindle, which is now at the heart of Amazon’s strategy. Welcome to eModeration's digest of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media. This week we have capitulated to popular demand: we will now be posting bite-size morsels of nourishing news not once, but

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

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 Social Graph: Concepts and Issues Written by Alex Iskold / September 12, 2007 2:05 AM / 13 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » Brad Fitzpatrick recentlywrote an elegant and important post about the Social Graph , a term

Facebook, for a long time, didn’t remove it completely, they reset the default to private . Well, it put in your newsfeed when you bought something at eBay or Amazon or whatever. Superb if you did a great deal on a Louis Vuitton classic handbag on eBay, less good if you are buying “Herpes and You” on Amazon or porn at Blockbuster Video. I always thought Beacon would work, it was just a bit too soon for some of the older bloggers, who kicked up a stink that Beacon couldn’t be turned off and the default option was “on”.  Anyway, what

We tweet a YouTube video that we found on a blog linked to on Facebook. Timing 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 an getting a clip of the sale, or business to consumer sales with a clip going to the consumer (blogger or Facebooker or whatever).  While you are reading the presentation outline below I’d like you to think about the Twitter change today. Today Twitter turned off “see