niche sites
SAY Media declares that this has been the year of the niche social network: > There was a time when the conventional wisdom said that there was no need for any social network other than Facebook; those days are long gone. Now that Facebook has become a wasteland of app
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/the-man-without-email.jpg] Nearly four years ago I liveblogged Luis Suarez [http://www.elsua.net/] talking about his nine-month old project to abandon e-mail [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2008/10/giving_up_email_for_social_sof.html] . How’s
myspace
It’s always worth bearing in mind that new developments in the social web rarely completely erase those that went before. MySpace is planning a revamp that looks like a tablet-ready Pinterest for music. [The new Myspace](http://vimeo.com/50071857) from [Myspace](http://vimeo.com/myspace) on [Vimeo](http:
Facebook’s own reasoning for dumping the HTML5 wrapper app on iOS and going native [https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-rebuilding-facebook-for-ios/10151036091753920] : > By allowing us to write once and ship across multiple platforms, HTML5 has historically allowed us to keep the Facebook mobile experience current and widely available,
Blogging
Richard Stacy on predictions that social media is failing [http://richardstacy.com/2012/08/14/social-media-is-failing-so-lets-forget-it/] (woe! woe! woe!): > Is it a failure of social media, or is it a failure of marketing to adapt itself to work within social media. In my view it is the later. As
A new audio feature for the star of Google+ - Hangouts.
Google+ may be faltering - but Hangouts and Photos are two of its best features.
data journalism
Live-blogged notes from Cork Haik's talk at news:rewired
Bradley Horowitz tells LeWeb London about where Google+ is going next…
Jamie Oliver and Kevin Systrom have become friends through Instagram. Jamie shares some forthright opinions about social media and food at LeWeb London…
infuence
So, to reach the public through social media, you target influencers, right? Wrong [http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/content-shared-close-friends-influencers/233147/] : > Our data show that online sharing, even at viral scale, takes place through many small groups, not via the single status post or tweet of a few influencers. While
social business
Yammer, which creates something akin to an internal Twitter for businesses, is raising big money [http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/yammer-announces-completion-of-big-funding-round-014693.php] : > In the four years since its inception, Yammer has been implemented by over 85% of the Fortune 500. In 2011 alone, the company tripled sales, employees