Category: Social Networks

  • Bonfire of the Vanities 2012

    The Tom Wolfe novel from the 1980s that’s the title of this post – along with the movie of the same name – comes to my mind when reading media reports and online commentary and punditry this morning about the…

  • Microsoft launches social search network So.cl

    Microsoft launched a “social search network” on Sunday – So.cl. Here’s how Microsoft describes it: So.cl (pronounced “social”) is an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of…

  • Share on Pinterest if you have the right

    One online property that’s been getting huge attention over the past few weeks is Pinterest, the join-by-invitation content-sharing and social networking service. Not only huge attention but also huge take-up by its users – TechCrunch reported earlier this month with…

  • Be where your customers are – it’s simple

    There’s a huge gap in expectation as Econsultancy reports on research by Zendesk that says: 62% of customers are looking for more support through social media 23% of companies actually provide it that way on Facebook Simple action: pay attention…

  • YouTube: the global TV channel

    I caught a few minutes of President Obama’s Google+ Hangout last night as it was streamed on YouTube. If you’ve done a Google+ Hangout video chat before, you’ll be familiar with the format and this was no different. Except, of…