Social Networking
Why did Blink fail?
Posted on November 5, 2008. Filed under: Learnings, Social Networking |
Blink.com started in 1999 was one of the earliest social bookmarking site founded, they were 5 years earlier than de.licio.us. They had bookmarking under folders like this:
Blink had started way ahead, had great staff, had USD 13M in funding. But failed to make the impact that delicious did much later, delicious was acquired by Yahoo [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Wikia Social Search
Posted on November 4, 2008. Filed under: Innovation, Social Networking |
Wikia, a Sanfrancisco, CA based company has done some search innovations…
When you go to Wikia.com and search for a text, the search results are retrieved from google or yahoo.
User Participation Options
Take the mouse over a search result and you see menu options like in this image:
Edit the search text
Edit option allows you to change the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )10 Tips for Successfully Managing Online Communities
Posted on August 10, 2008. Filed under: Social Networking |
Ryan Paugh has a nice post on the good practices to manage online communities:
1. Be a social media ninja.
While Twitter may be the hottest new thing among social media elite, young and old, the rest are just as important to know and understand if you want to be a great online community manager. Equip yourself [...]
Social Networks – building blocks
Posted on May 11, 2007. Filed under: Social Networking |
Gene Smith article on Social Software Building Blocks is an excellent start for anyone who is trying to understand the social network out there or develop a own social network.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Getting a perspective on Online Social Networks.
Posted on April 3, 2007. Filed under: Social Networking |
Look at social network as an basic commodity/tool like cellphone or telephone. Like telephone which the user purchases as a tool to carry out his tasks, user will build his social network as a first step. The next step which adds ‘real value’, is using this tool to carry out his [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Web 2.0 Applications – Do we need User Adaptablity?
Posted on March 20, 2007. Filed under: Case Studies, Learnings, Social Networking |
Obviously, the answer is yes. But are the products coming out really user adaptable. I will take that topic for another blog. But today I want to touch upon why we need user adaptability.
A friend of mine gave this interesting analogy. Few years ago, a software was delivered to flight control attendants to use in [...]
Next Cisco plans to acquire Tribe.net
Posted on March 3, 2007. Filed under: Collaboration Platform, Social Networking |
What is Cisco planning to do these days?
After acquiring the social networking platform provider FiveAcross for a rumoured value of USD 30 million, next they are planning to acquire Tribe.net a web based social networking site.
With FiveAcross acquisition Cisco intended to help large corporate clients especially the telecom service providers create services on their website to [...]
