In the June 1st issue of BusinessWeek, the cover story asks the question “What’s a Friend Worth?” Specifically, it looks at how “Companies are working fast to figure out how to make money from the wealth of data they’re beginning to have about our online friendships.” Two parts of the story really jumped out to me
Image by via CrunchBase On the trip to the parent’s house this weekend, I was bemoaning the fact that Twitterberry is not exactly a stellar Twitter client for the Blackberry. And I appear to be in good company since Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures complained about the same thing on Friday. So why is a smart developer not paying
The good folks over at Mashable just put together a nice post on the growth of key social media sites over the past 12 months based on Nielsen Online data. Facebook and MySpace get all the love in the space but there are some other key stats that Brand Managers need to pay attention to: “Twitter recorded 2.3 million unique
A new global study on social media use by Universall McCann shows the US is falling behind in participation rates. A couple of highlights directly from AdWeek: A little over 60 percent of Internet users in the U.S. said they read blogs, but just 26 percent had created one, compared to over 70 percent of Internet users who blog in
Lots of talk this morning about AOL buying Bebo for $850MM. My favorite post was over at Silicon Alley Insider where they made a comparison of the per user cost of Bebo versus other deals. Here is the snapsot: News Corp (NWS)/MySpace deal, July 2005: $580 million, or $21.80 for each of the network’s 27 million uniques. Hi-Media/Fotolog, August 2007:
