Category: Social Networks

  • The richness of being social

    Getting together for a chat over lunch – the epitome of being social whether for business or pleasure. That’s what the photo above suggests to me, a picture of a group who did just that a few days ago at…

  • The rise and rise of Sina Weibo

    If you want get an idea of which major brands are doing what in China with Sina Weibo, the front-runner in microblogging in that country,  AdAge.com has a compelling feature that highlights what Starbucks and many other consumer brands are…

  • Social trajectories and the ones that matter

    This chart showing the share of time spent online by US social networkers is interesting in that Facebook’s usage-growth trajectory is consistent over quite a long period, three years or so. The overall picture suggests that there are only two…

  • Rebooting Facebook

    As more than 100,000 others did, I sat at a computer last evening to watch the live video stream of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg deliver his keynote speech at the start of f8, Facebook’s annual developer conference in San Francisco.…

  • Universal Google+

    If you visit the Google search page today on your desktop or laptop computer, it will likely look like the screenshot you see here. A big blue hand-drawn arrow leads from the Google logo in the centre of your screen…