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Putting the social back into networking
Received, Daily Mail-style wisdom has it that social networking is destroying our social skills – turning us into grunting savages hunched over our keyboards exchanging tweets with people hundreds of...
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Bye bye Bebo?
Image via Wikipedia For those that have come late to social networking, Facebook and Twitter are pretty much everything they want/need/use. But before Facebook became the giant it is today there were...
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There is no private life anymore
Image by Judge Business School / judgebusinessschool via CrunchBase I’ve previously blogged about how social media is leading people to give away a lot more of their personal details than in the past,...
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Facebook+
Image via Wikipedia Your biggest competitor is launching a new product that attacks your dominant market leader head-on. What do you do? You don’t want to look desperate but equally you can’t ignore...
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Disconnecting at LinkedIn?
LinkedIn Centipede Participants in the 2010 ING Bay to Breakers (Photo credit: smi23le) We’re clearly doing much more of our business networking online, so why isn’t LinkedIn more of a success?...
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MicroSocial?
There are a lot of people convinced that what the world needs is another social network. After all technically they’re pretty simple to set up and if half the world is on Facebook, there’s still plenty...
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Cows, herds, social media and innovation
Cows on Coe Fen (Photo credit: James Bowe) When it burst upon the scene, social media (and indeed the whole internet) was seen as a chance for individuals to get their voices heard. Whether it was...
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ARM about Face?
At the launch of Tech City in 2010 David Cameron stressed that he wanted the initiative to help encourage UK ideas and entrepreneurs and pointed to Facebook as the perfect example of the type of...
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Do you really Like that?
Be careful what you like on Facebook – that’s the warning to take from research carried out by the University of Cambridge. The project used algorithms to predict religion, politics, race and sexual...
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Be careful what you tweet (part 84)
It is tempting to devote this week’s blog to the passing of Baroness Thatcher and how it has been covered on social media. But essentially this excellent pie chart from @martinbelam sums it up - see...
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10 changes that Facebook has made in ten years
This month Facebook celebrates its tenth birthday, having come a long way from Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room in 2004. Hitting 1.23 billion active users and 2013 revenues of $7.87bn points to an...
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Generating a network effect – why WhatsApp is worth $19 billion
As I’ve said before, the technical side of creating a new social network is relatively easy – and nowadays with cloud computing you have fast, cost-effective access to the resources you need to scale...
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Will Facebook at Work work?
Last week, Facebook launched Facebook At Work, its latest attempt to bring the social network into the enterprise business mainstream. Cue lots of commentators prophesying doom for the likes of...
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Will Facebook take over the world?
Last week Facebook announced that on Monday 24th August 1 billion people logged into the social network. That’s 15% (almost one in seven) of the world’s population using Facebook in a 24 hour period....
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Is there space for Google Spaces?
Today our internet use is dominated by just a few tech giants – Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple (GAFA) in the UK and US, with the likes of Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba leading the way in China. What...
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