Posts Tagged ‘Social Web’

Social media is like playing Crazy 8′s; you can’t really do it alone. But, what happens when a social media start-up gets a sudden massive influx of users? This is exactly what Quora’s about to find out. While this is exciting for the small company, the growth also means Quora will face some significant challenges in the coming months. Here are four issues Quora is bound to confront.

Americans so often pride themselves in being number in the world at one thing or another, but this time it’s their neighbors to the north that have topped everyone. Canadians come in at number one in terms of using social media and the internet, according to a study measurement company comScore.

Following in the footsteps of Yahoo and LinkedIn, Quora has positioned itself as one the leading Q&A websites on the web today. Instead of joining the website and clicking away until you see something interesting, here’s a beginners guide that’ll have you up and running with Quora in a flash.

Recent AOL acquisition About.me wants to take on Google as the source of finding out all that you want to know about a person. With refreshing visuals and simple interface, AOL is hoping About.me will be a winner.

On Thursday December 16th at approximately 5 p.m. eastern time, Morgan Freeman died – at least according to twitter. 24 hours later, Morgan Freeman is (thankfully) still alive, CNN is denying responsibility for the rumour, and the tweet has been removed. A breakdown of the incident reveals that, especially in the social media era, you can’t believe everything you read.

Web behavior is an emerging science that has grown in conjunction with the Internet, and looks at the way in which people behave in that realm. Spurred by the 20 year anniversary of the World Wide Web, scientists have developed the Web Behaviour Test, an experiment to identify the different ways in which people use the Internet.

500 million of us have a Facebook profile, but what if the socializing there could be expanded to the entire web? The creators of Googlin, a social web surfing application, are hoping that an immersive social web experience – from CNN’s homepage to your Google searches – is the next generation.

Hi, I’m Ellie Cachette and I’m the resident nerd who is obsessed with consumer media. You’ll find me crawling between the cracks of Facebook and covering breaking news about new company marketing campaigns and the changes within corporate customer service. My passion for Consumer Media is deeply rooted both as a consumer and entrepreneur. I [...]

It was only six months ago we reported OneRiot adding MySpace user content to its aggregated search results. Today, the search engine and advertising marketplace for the real time web announced its search API now includes Facebook data. Influenced by millions of additional users from Facebook, OneRiot search results can now reflect the pulse of [...]

Curious about how many Twitter users are signing up per second? How about money spent on Facebook gifts? Or iPhone app downloads? Gary Hayes was curious, and he created the Social Media Counts application to track just how prolific social media is – in real time. Read past the break to see the “Web 2.0 [...]