Will Social Networks Kill Search?

April 30, 2008 No comments yet

A provocative headline and somewhat less provocative article in Popular Mechanics argues that social networking will kill search “as we know it.”
Here’s the relevant kernel of the article:
In fact, as we each carve out our individual niche on the Web, the logic of search may well flip inside out. Since we are essentially meta-tagging ourselves [...]

Mobile Social Networks To See Sky High Ad Revenues By 2012?

April 26, 2008 No comments yet

If you were to believe mobile social networks about their advertising predictions, they will by 2012 be raking in between $28 to $52 billion dollars in ad revenue. Given that normal online ad revenue only broke $27 billion for the first time in 2007, and with predicted drops in ad budgets due to the economic [...]

Social Circuit: Intel Embraces Blog Culture

March 21, 2008 No comments yet

If you think of the universe of technology—and for that matter-social media, Intel seems to be constantly at the center of it. The devices we use, what we see on them, the companies that provide them, almost completely depend upon Intel for the processing power needed to make it work.
I spent some time with [...]

Building a New City of Tech(Boise)

March 19, 2008 1 comment

We have an opportunity. An opportunity for people like us, an opportunity to define the future of our home – Boise.
Did you know that we have the oldest legislative body in the entire nation? Our state representatives, many senior business leaders and officials leading the education infrastructure are not tech savvy. Worse, they glaze [...]

A List of Objections, Replies and Concessions Regarding Social Media and Tools

February 7, 2008 1 comment

1. I suffer from information overload already.
Possible replies:
Information is just nice to have unless it is actionable – that is the problem with email. If you are like me then email comes in, it’s scanned for task items, categorized in some manner and filed. In social media the feed is just there – [...]

OpenSocial, a masterstroke by Google

November 5, 2007 No comments yet

Google is back with a bang would be an understatement seeing the impact its new application can create on the Internet especially on social networking sites and maybe even deciding the future of the world wide web. Is this simply the way collaborative innovation is going to be in future? Or is this a [...]


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