The World Economic Forum (WEF) is using several social media tools to promote and coordinate discussion for its annual meeting in Davos-Klosters in January 2009.
WEF has launched tools on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, a wiki, as well as a photo group on Flickr. The tools invite web users to discuss key issues on the [...]
According to the Fall 2008 Ad-ology Media Influence on Consumer Choice survey, over 80% of recent camera buyers 25 to 34 years old reported some or significant influence by online user-generated content including blogs and product reviews. The survey also found that 42.8% of this age group and 45.7% of 35 to 44 year [...]
Chances are you use at least two major social networks – 49 million people, for example, visited both MySpace and Facebook in October. Power.Com wants to be the “dashboard” that we use to interface to one or more social networks.
Power.Com has aggregated over 5 million users in the last year with most of these [...]
Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff have been tracking on the development and impact of social technologies for years. In Groundswell, Li and Bernoff address the struggle that corporate executives face trying to understand how people are using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies, write their own [...]
The Apple iPhone is moving from just a cool gadget for the technorati to the mainstream. Comscore has recently come out with a report detailing the demographics of iPhone users, and the results are surprising. The report indicates that the driver behind the iPhones growth comes from users who earn less than the median household income [...]
Politics and elections have always been fodder for water cooler, barber shop and dinner table conversation. In my home growing up politics were more interesting to talk about than the Red Sox. Well that was before the Red Sox started winning World Series Championships. Politics did monopolize our dialogue and it still [...]
I had the honor last evening to participate on a panel at the Charles River Ventures Entrepreneur Exchange, held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Intercontinental Hotel. Hats off to the Charles River team for bringing out over 200 entrepreneurs and technologists to attend the event. Jon Auerbach kicked off the evening in an [...]
Most of the news about Web 2.0 has been in the consumer realm of the Internet. There is enormous potential for businesses to benefit from Social Networking as well.
