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Google Search Is Getting More Social

by Steffan Antonas on January 30, 2010

You knew this was coming. Google about to start surfacing public web content from your friends and online contacts.

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Shifting To A “People Driven” Economy

by Steffan Antonas on January 13, 2010

Erik Qualman has produced a few good videos like this in tandem with the release of his book Socialnomics. This one focuses on interesting facts and figures that show how human behavior on the web is shifting (which is the whole point, right?). I particularly appreciated (A.) the insight that: “Successful companies in social media [...]

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The Future Of Magazines?

by Steffan Antonas on December 17, 2009

I came across this video demo of a digital magazine prototype on Popular Science and was ultra impressed. Hat tip to the developers in Bonnier’s R&D group and BERG Design for their work on this. This year we’ve seen escalating hype around ebook readers like Amazon’s Kindle, as well as a lot of speculation about [...]

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The Critical Shift

by Steffan Antonas on December 11, 2009

Five years ago, if someone from your marketing department said “Let’s market to our existing customers!” they would have risked losing their job. Why would any organization spend time or effort on customers who’ve already bought the product? Backwards you say? Not anymore. This is a winning strategy on the social web.
Social media changes the [...]

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Trends That Are Influencing The Future Of Work

by Steffan Antonas on October 28, 2009

Now that we’ve got the technology to connect in real time, 24/7 to anyone with an internet connection, more and more organizations are reaching out across the globe to find the very best people they can to get things done. Likewise, people with talent are collaborating with teams remotely and seeking meaningful work across the [...]

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Hitwise Data Shows That We’re All Twittered Out

by Steffan Antonas on October 19, 2009

Some fresh Hitwise data posted by Bill Tancer just a few weeks ago indicates that Twitter might have hit a wall and is now on the decline. Just as Twitter secured an additional $100 million in financing, which would place the company’s valuation in the $1 billion range, Bill dug into the data to take [...]

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Facebook Maps Their Growth To 250 Million

by Steffan Antonas on September 15, 2009

The Facebook team put this visualization together with their internal data and posted it today. Watch how Facebook has grown to 250 million users around the world starting starting in Boston, MA. If you’re read “Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook – A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal”, the visualization of the growth [...]

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An In-Depth Look at the Most Active Users on Twitter

by Steffan Antonas on August 7, 2009

When Sysomos published its initial “Inside Twitter” report last month that looked at the people on Twitter and how it was being used, we discovered that 5% of users accounted for 75% of all activity. This finding was based on indexing 11.5 million accounts, and then looking at the top 5% users who accounted for [...]

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How Different Groups Of Americans Spend Their Day

by Steffan Antonas on August 6, 2009

Ever wonder what the average American day is actually like? The New York Times published an interactive visualization this week based on data gathered in the American Time Use Survey in 2008 that shows how different groups in the US spend their day. Below are some of the key insights from the survey on the [...]

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Interactive World Map Of Social Network Dominance

by Steffan Antonas on August 4, 2009

[tweetmeme]Vincenzo Cosenza has mapped the most popular social networks by country, according to traffic data gathered on Alexa & Google Trends (June 2009). While Facebook’s growing dominance over MySpace in the US and other countries comes as no surprise, it is interesting to see the few smaller networks that most of us have probably never [...]

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5 Unmissable TED Talks On The Future Of Technology And The Web

by Steffan Antonas on July 30, 2009

#1 Tim Berners-Lee On The Next Web of Open, Linked Data
[tweetmeme]20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: Unlock our data and reframe the way we use it [...]

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Trendspotting At Web 2.0 Expo

by Steffan Antonas on April 17, 2009

I recently spent a week at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, CA. I had a ball. There’s something (dare I say Worldchanging?) about the O’Reilly events this year. There’s a sense of community, shared responsibility and agency in the air. It’s one thing to be social in the blogosphere and participate in online [...]

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