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Tim O’Reilly: The Power of Platforms from Web 2.0 to Gov 2.0

Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, explores the notion of the Internet becoming an Operating System with subsystems and applications that deliver services and the importance of data as the foundation of the future.



Here’s his video:

The Interconnected World of Tech Companies

The “tech world” is really more of a “tech family.” Between digital giants’ appetites for acquisitions and the tendency of their ex-employees to start new companies, it’s easy to see how nearly every blip in the ecosystem is closely related. See this infographic for an insight into those interconnections.

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TEDxRheinMain – Michael Altendorf – Why Virtual Identities?

The digital world changed the way people see each other, as more and more people provide their personal social network with private information like photos, location information or status messages.

Today everybody has multiple digital and virtual “identities” on different websites, social networks or virtual worlds. What is the origin of this trend? What is the status today and what can we expect from the future?
Diplom Economist / University of Heidelberg. Co-Founder & CEO of the venture-capital funded internet startup ADTELLIGENCE GmbH. ADTELLIGENCE GmbH provides superior online ad targeting technologies and analytics platforms for social networks & agencies.

Facebook Insights: Analytics for Websites, Applications and Pages all in one place

Having good analytics is a key to successfully growing a business. To this end, we want to provide you with even better metrics for your Facebook Apps, websites, and Pages. We’re excited to announce that we recently launched an improved Insights dashboard. The new Insights dashboard provides a single view of all your Facebook analytics related to:
• Websites, including fully-integrated sites, sites that use social plugins, as well as non-integrated domains

• Apps, including canvas, mobile, device, and desktop apps

• Facebook Pages, including Pages created on Facebook.com and those that are part of the Open Graph protocol

For example, you can now view analytics about specific stories that people liked on your website, or how many people commented on your Page Posts*. This data will tell you what your audience finds most interesting so that you can capitalize on that content. In this guide, we will focus on Insights for your Page and will help you understand the analytics that Insights provide. This information can be used to fine-tune pages in order to increase engagement. If you have integrated the Open Graph protocol into your Web pages, Insights will capture engagement with Pages regardless of whether an action was taken on or off Facebook.

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GlobalSpec: Social Media Trends in the Industrial Sector

Hugo E. Martin currently worte in his blog an interesting article about the Social Media trens in the Industrial Sector.

GlobalSpec recently conducted its 2nd annual social media usage survey of engineering, technical, manufacturing and industrial professionals. Not too much has changed in a big way. Hindering a faster implementation is the fact that many companies do not allow staff to access social media sites and social networks during working hours or place restriction on it (35 %), e.g. 70 % don’t allow Facebook, 66 % don’t allow Twitter or YouTube usage.

On the other side, 59% of the industrial professionals surveyed are on Facebook (2009: 42%, 37 % on LinkedIn (2009: 32%), 15 % on Twitter (2009:12 %) … maybe time to rethink. Buyers in the B2B sector are human beings, too …

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Two sample charts
Reasons for Using Social Media Web Sites

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