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Excerpt from an Om Malik big-picture snapshot
Earlier this month, web measurement and analytics company, comScore reported that Pinterest, a tiny little company based in Silicon Valley is now the 10th largest social platform with billions of page views.
It propelled itself into a group that included Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Amazing isn’t it — considering that the service is still at an invite-only stage.
But it shouldn’t be surprising. Remember, with every passing year, the metabolism of the technology industry has increased. It took Yahoo more than a decade to blow past 500 million users. Facebook will hit the… Continue reading: Apple, Internet & the constant New Normal [GigaOM]
The full second chapter of Grouped, which remains on my recommended-reading list, is available here
We talk to survive
The desire to communicate is hard-wired into all of us. It was an effective survival mechanism for our ancestors, who shared information about food supplies, dangerous animals, and weather patterns, and it continues to help us understand our world, including what behavior is appropriate and how to act in certain situations. People talk because sharing information makes life easier.
How and why we communicate with others » THINK OUTSIDE IN
Continue reading: How and why we communicate with others » THINK OUTSIDE IN
Not a Currents fan…
You could also call it the sterilization of the social web. Just like today’s new Twitter redesign makes things nice and pretty for non-technical users – Google Currents is infinitely friendlier and more accessible than any RSS reader – even Google’s own Reader. Unfortunately, in the current application that ease of use comes at a great cost: Google Currents does away with many of the best parts of the social web. It sings a catchy tune, but there’s far less life inside the experience. It’s not just a bummer, either – it’s a threat to what’s great about blogging.
Google Currents is to Social Media as Justin Bieber is to the… Continue reading: Google Currents is to Social Media as Justin Bieber is to the Beatles [ReadWriteWeb]
Along with a bunch of other excellent data, a recent report from TELUS and Rotman suggests that firms that explicitly block social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, etc.) are more likely than firms that don’t block to experience a breach.
Why?
Well, we don’t know for sure, but we can guess. The hypothesis suggested in the report is that blocking of these sites creates a perverse incentive for employees to violate security policy in a way that increases the likelihood of breaches in other ways. For example, by encouraging them to install software from untrusted sources to… Continue reading: Information wants to be free (or else)
Short answer: probably not Yahoo; check the article link below for more details
Facebook, right? It’s always Facebook! And, to a certain extent, this is true. When you look at the war for talent currently being waged in Silicon Valley, Facebook is one of the winners. Google, LinkedIn and Apple, however, are doing pretty well, too. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft and Yahoo! are at the other end of the spectrum.
Which Social Media Company Has the Smartest People? – SocialTimes.com
Continue reading: Which Social Media Company Has the Smartest People? – SocialTimes.com
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