I just found this here in Geralds blog
Check this out, very funny:
one example:
Archive for March 31, 2008
QQ.com the real No1 in social networks?!
As I already wrote in my thesis last year qq.com will increase importance in the asia web scene.
Not only No1 in social networks with 300m users but also one of the strongest e-money currencies. The so called QQ coin (by tencent) is forbidden by the chinese government but due to its “digitality” it is impossible for the government to control the circulation. QQ is not only a social network but also a famous instant messenger in asia.
After the discussion going around with second life and legal regulations of the virtual economy there could also start a new discussion soon when other social networks start own currencies inside there networks. Or more likely OpenSocial starts with a own micro-currency for the trade of informations and widgets between social networks.
The sun is shining but if you are able to read german you could read more about virtual currencies here..
http://de.geocities.com/michaelaltendorf80/Diplomarbeit_MA.pdf
The topic came up because of this blog entry on asian social networks.
Update: you also could get a bad formatted version here http://michaelaltendorf.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/internet-taxation-and-virtual-worlds/
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Social aggregation pages and Adobe Photoshop Express
After most of us heard of http://friendfeed.com/ in the last weeks there are also some more pages where we could find the art of aggregation to beware of information overload.
one of the coolest is definitely www.alltop.com where also none geek individuals could get an overview what’s going on in the internet today. For example could you find a mixture of famous and none famous but interesting bloggers here http://egos.alltop.com/ Also a twitter aggregation pages is here http://twitter.alltop.com/ and social media here http://socialmedia.alltop.com/
The whole thing was “inspired by” http://popurls.com/ - popular URLs. This is more about aggregation of pages which include recommended articles. All the top is more a aggregation of user generated content where the individual himself is already recommended whatever he writes now.
What is missing on both pages (ok this also make sense when they want to start with advertisment on the page) that there is no rss stream for the whole collection to include this in my reader (i love netvibes but with 30tabs and 500blogs it is a bit overloaded now)
One of the cool things of these pages is that you get the newest rumors in real time like the now famous https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html
Another blogger pages is the http://www.web20workgroup.com/ similiar to http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/ or http://www.socialmediatoday.com/. You could call it the next generation of a traditional club which evanglize online not to mix up with the new “group culture” in social networks (“we drink beer only on the day end with y but wednesday” ok that makes no sense in english and enough for today
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Sony BMG, one of the 3 (should we still count EMI too?) major labels plans music flatrate
according to some newspapers and blogs like this
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/3/sony_bmg_planning_subscription_service_aapl_
Sony plans a musicflatrate. The advantage of a single major label compared to napster is zero. Also a lot of other memers of the channel like Nokia try to offer flaterates for music. One advantage of the major is the bigger supplier power but one big disadvantage is the smaller product portfolio. The major already tried to offer music online stores years ago. But when the user do not know which artist is at which label this will not work. Only a holistic approach of all big vendors together could work. But a lot of players like Amazon or iTunes will compete against each others. Perhaps this announcement is only going to put pressure on iTunes because Sony threaten to go forward with other vendors but without Apple if Apple not support what the music labels want. I will still become a exciting year for the music industry. They are going to attack each other not only on horizontal but also on vertical battlefields. The advantage has the consumer in the end. If the younger generation pay money for music in future is exciting because he never paid before. There will definitely a battle between the flaterate and the advertisment model in the end and some niches in between – nobody could know this in these days when all players change their strategy and play around with every possibility
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Facebook claims social network lead
allfacebook blog claims that facebook takes over the lead in social networks. Regarding to a comscore page view statistics the daily visits of faceook is 2,6 mio pages views (25,2mio on Facebook vs. 22.6mio on MySpace) higher than the myspace visits
read it here
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