It's not immediately apparent how Facebook and Google are direct competitors, except perhaps in terms of reputation for "cool." But the two companies are directly competing for the most valuable asset of all today: customer time. READ»
In recent weeks, tech pundits have been deleting their Facebook accounts and encouraging others to join them. Most are signing off in response to Facebook's ongoing bait-and-switch tactics that leave them not trusting Facebook. ...READ»
Google has just released its first-quarter results and, unsurprisingly, they show that the search engine giant is still making healthy profits, despite the slight cock-up of the Nexus One launch and the China debacle. Profits were up ...READ»
Do you treat social media sites like spinning plates, afraid to let any one drop while ignoring more important aspects of your business? Then it's time to rethink your priorities.READ»
In one of the craziest proclamations I've ever read, the Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee has banned judges from "friending" lawyers on social-networking sites. The reason?READ»
You've got to credit Google for trying to be the one-stop shop for everything online: It just grabbed hold of the craze for social networking, and built it right into Google users' homepages. Will everything soon be social ...READ»
Years ago, I heard about an unusual doughnut vendor who asked people to pay what they owed, and make change for themselves, says Dov Seidman. The practice told his customers that he trusted them to be honest. Indonesia’s cashier-free “honesty cafes” do the same thing. The best way to rebuild trust is to extend trust to others.READ»
Social networks, there's a lot of them out there and you're being invited to participate in new ones every day. There's MySpace, FaceBook, LinkedIn. There's eCademy, Plaxo, Ning, Bebo, Friendster. Jaiku, Orkut, Tumblr, and moore ...READ»
Online dating is the best way to meet people across the globe. In fact, because of its anonymous nature, people get to know each other first (likes, dislikes, tastes, ideals, etc) before actually thinking of the pleasures of the flesh. READ»
Plenty of people have been wondering about which company might come along and dethrone Facebook. What if the answer is so obvious that you wouldn't notice until all the pieces came together?READ»
When Google threw a party at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last Wednesday, the question that seemed to bedevil the press and analysts gathered was, "Why is Google throwing a party at the Game Developers ...READ»
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This is the revised transcript of the Fast Company.com Call-In titled, Next Generation Interaction: Are Virtual Worlds Waiting in the Wings? that took place on November 2008. Portions of the dialogue have been re-written ...READ»
Social media has already changed business profoundly. If yours hasn’t, you are already behind the curve. If you have customers, their expectations regarding how they interact with businesses has likely already shifted dramatically.
So how will you deal with these changes in your business? They will surely impact marketing and legal, perhaps even I.T. But what else is on the horizon?READ»
We've heard the stats before -- only a quarter of those involved in computer and mathematical occupations are women. And yet, in the ever-evolving world of Web 2.0, women have often been pioneers, redefining the way we interact online. We tracked down the most influential of these. Our list wasn't chosen by star power, nor by career altitude. Rather, we feature the biggest innovators.READ»
Are you interested in sex? Would you say that publicly?
One of the things that has proven most problematic for people to experience -- and most interesting to observe -- as we collectively explore social networking online is the ...READ»
For Recruiting on the Social Web - add some innovation!
This
post has a twist. It's not so much about advise for recruiters, 'cause
I'm not a recruiter. It's about engaging in relationships with others
and letting our ...READ»
Last year, Newsweek predicted that 2007 would be "the year of the widget." This July, developers gathered in New York for Widgetcon, a conference devoted exclusively to widgets. Whether or not Widgetcon fulfilled Newsweek's prediction, it signaled that widgets were more than a passing fad on the Web.READ»
And everyone thought that Microsoft had punked Google by investing $240 million in Facebook for 1.6 of the social-networking site, when all the while Google had a plan for Orkut, that being OpenSocial -- a set of common APIs for ...READ»
When Groucho Marx famously told the Friars that he "didn't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member" he notified them via telegram.
If Groucho were on e-mail today he would be spammed by invitations from friends, ...READ»
Who would have thought that the police would use social networking sites to solve murder cases? Well, that’s exactly what happened in Mumbai, India recently. Mumbai Police used Orkut profiles to nab the alleged killer of a young ...READ»
In today's New York Times, there's a piece in the business section about the surprising international adoption and success of Google's social network service, Orkut.
The story is interesting at two levels. One, Orkut wasn't designed ...READ»
While Microsoft may have trouble innovating, the company's acquisition of Ray Ozzie's Groove Networks clearly indicates that it can buy the innovations -- and perhaps innovators -- it needs to compete.
Like Google's purchase of ...READ»
In the blog Venturpreneur, Gordon Smith takes Google to task for its IPO prospectus. His major criticism: Google doesn't tell a growth story.
With the acquisition of Blogger, the release of Orkut and Gmail, it seems that Google has ...READ»
In the April issue, Scott Kirsner looks at a new form of spam: "snam," the deluge of impersonal -- though connected -- emails brought on by social networking services such as Orkut.
This morning, FC Now reader Joseph price emailed ...READ»
