Five Reasons Social Media gets Gamed

It’s not too hard to connect this, which arrived in my inbox today:

with this, which arrived in my spam box today:

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Growth of Social Networks (or Not)

New data from Nielsen confirms what you probably already know. Traffic to and time spent on social net­working sites has boomed over the last two years. As the charts below show, people across the world are spending around five-​​​​and-​​​​a-​​​​half hours per month on social net­working sites compared to just over two hours at the

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Memesurfing: iSlate and Social Media

There is a fever of anti­cip­a­tion over the imminent release of a tablet-​​​​style computer from Apple – let’s call it the iSlate [Thursday Update — actually, let’s call it the iPad — I stand by everything else in the post, though].

Nobody outside the company knows very much about how it works or its specifications,

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Wonky Rungs

Groundswell – the Forrester Research social media blog — has produced an update to its engage­ment ladder diagram:

The diagram was changed to add in users of Twitter and other ‘status-​​​​update’ applic­a­tions, most notably Facebook. Author Josh Bernoff notes that this group has a dif­ferent demo­graphic make-​​​​up to others:

Conversationalists intrigue me. They’re

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Making is… Making?

My estwhile col­league, the excel­lent David Gauntlett, has posted a new video about the work towards his next book Making is Connecting:

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links for 2010-​​01-​​18

The Predictive Web | Brian Solis Social Media becomes less about a move-​​​​and-​​​​react strategy and sets the stage for engen­dering mean­ingful inter­ac­tions as well as building more tuned business infra­struc­tures to support anti­cip­ated activity based on the intel­li­gence and insight extracted from online behavior. (tags: pre­dic­tions pre­dictive inten­tions socialweb,) Continue reading links for 2010-​​​​01-​​​​18

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