It was announced today that Plaxo will be acquired by Comcast – or at least they have entered into an agreement for this to happen. An important piece of the announcement that grabbed my attention: Plaxo and Comcast have been working together for the past year on a number of initiatives. Plaxo is providing the [...]
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Comcast to Acquire Plaxo
Posted by Eric Friedman on May 20, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/05/20/comcast-to-acquire-plaxo/
LinkedIn Now with Linked Companies
Posted in Social Networking, Technology
LinkedIn is now making a new move to allow companies to have their own LinkedIn Company pages. LinkedIn uses this knowledge to display recent hires, related companies, recent promotions, top locations for employees, and so-called “headliners” (people who get lots of profile views and mentions in the press). The data has also been used for [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on March 21, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/03/21/linkedin-now-with-linked-companies/
Twitter functions we wish existed
Posted in Marketing.fm, Social Networking
I was recently browsing Twitter and began thinking about the instant nature of everyone posting. As I have said before there are many conversations happening live on Twitter that may never get blogged. This got me started on this blog post about features that I wish existed. It is a culmination of my colleagues requests, [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on March 17, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/03/17/twitter-functions-we-wish-existed/
Top or Bottom 10% on Twitter
I received this email today from Twitter relaying some interesting usage data: …people who have 10 followers and are following about 10 people represent 50% of all Twitter-ers. If you have more than 80 followers and you’re following more than 70 people, then you are in the Twitter minority at about 10%. I think there [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on February 27, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/02/27/top-or-bottom-10-on-twitter/
Entertainment Social Networks
photo credit: b_d_solis I recently read that Variety was setting up a social network centered around entertainment business called The Biz. I think we will continue to see more niche social networks, something that companies like Ning specialize in. Whether focused around job searching, a niche market, or simply just a smaller group of like [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on February 27, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/02/27/entertainment-social-networks/
Where are the online ad dollars going?
photo credit: LiveU4 According to Avenue A/Razorfish they are going to search, entertainment and social networking sites. During 2007, total online ad spending through Avenue A/Razorfish was $735 million, up 36 percent from the year before, and the number of Web sites that ads were placed on doubled to more than 1,800, according to the [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on February 24, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/02/24/where-are-the-online-ad-dollars-going/
Follow Hundreds of Marketing Gurus on Twitter
Posted in Marketing.fm, Social Networking
Marketing Pilgrim recently posted a great list of marketing gurus on twitter who you may want to follow. I totally agree with Brian, that conversations and topics can sometimes come up and get discussed well before they hit the blogosphere. I was happy to learn that I made the initial 75 people on the list [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on February 21, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/02/21/follow-hundreds-of-marketing-gurus-on-twitter/
Too Late for NewsGator
Posted in RSS, Social Networking
Right now people are going crazy over the fact that NewsGator has released their products for free. I think it is too late. I understand the reasons why: 1. Attention spans have value – gain more attention (via your reader) gain value 2. Go after the Enterprise – easier sell to larger firms when the [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on January 9, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/01/09/too-late-for-newsgator/
Blink and you missed it
In case you missed it today; Scoble got booted from Facebook! Scoble got reinstated to Facebook! I believe the best outcome from these events are that people are now thinking and talking about how the social graph works, who owns the data, and who has permission to do things with it. I think it is [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on January 3, 2008
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2008/01/03/blink-and-you-missed-it/
Joyent giving free hosting for Facebook developers (AKA free advertising for Joyent)
Now this is a good idea to get customers. Joyent is giving free hosting for Facebook developers away so that they can have a place to cultivate and develop their applications. The rules to qualify are really not that hard either considering how easy it is to get people to subscribe to your application: All [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on December 2, 2007
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2007/12/02/joyent-giving-free-hosting-for-facebook-developers-aka-free-advertising-for-joyent/
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