Submitted by Laconica007:
With automobile expenses getting heftier, barrels of oil getting pricier and city congestion getting denser, purchasing a Prius may not be the most cost effective option in your quest to save on gas. (Read More)
Submitted by Vincent Wright:
ASMALLWORLD, while growing quickly, has gotten too big for some members' liking. Diamond Lounge has morphed into a "dating and networking site." Now, a site called Spire is entering the fray. But Spire has a slightly different business model. Rather than offering social networking, Spire calls itself a "social resource." In (Read More)
Submitted by Kenmat:
As machines learn to understand what the web means, what perspective will they understand it from? Who is teaching them? . (Read More)
: What makes the semantic web such a difficult thing to implement in a useful way is, again, a combination of the limitations in the technology, but most of all the human factor. It just isnt possible to model human behavior. There is mood, taste, circumstances, irrational behavior and all other types of complexities that we humans can deal with (barely) but machines cant.
: I think the semantic web has a long way to go. Anyone remember virtual reality video games. Sometimes the concept is great, but it will take time for it to be accessible enough for the average person to understand, let alone adopt.
Submitted by J Deragon:
Social media is one of the hottest buzzwords in tech circles. But can you actually get paid to play with Facebook at the office? Don't show your boss this Mashable article written by Ben Parr asking if social media jobs are here to stay. It only validates the lack of any hard evidence. Parr says social media roles — either (Read More)
Submitted by Techn0tic:
There is considerable talk among social media "experts" on how companies, particularly PR and marketing companies, are failing to utilise social media wisely - often getting it so wrong that they end up pissing people off. I think that we are currently seeing a change in how to communicate online which is both an evolution (Read More)
: I know in my company it is hard to convey the "social media" cadence and why its important to treat bloggers with respect/ and to treat them as experts in network building
ReadWriteWeb
The selection process for DEMOfall 08 (RWW is a media partner) is coming to a close and Chris Shipley has been blogging her thoughts about it. She's identified a number of trends in the 'class of DEMOfall 2008', one of which is this claim: the Web 2.0 cycle has come to a close. She also makes a case for an end to the 'free' (Read More)
Hit Blog
A study has indicated that 87 per cent Indians trust recommendations from others over any other kind of advertising, making 'Word-of-Mouth' advertising the most powerful tool. According to the recent global Nielsen Internet survey, India ranks fourth among the top ten countries globally which trusts recommendations from c (Read More)
Submitted by J Deragon:
A review of the listing only five pages deep reveals “advertising, ad placement and design services” are the dominant services. It appears as though the majority of the service providers think “social media” is about ad placement, click through, ad analytics and fundamentally the offerings are applying old tricks to new med (Read More)
Mashable!
Yahoo! reached an agreement with Carl Icahn: eight members of Yahoo’s current board of directors will stand for re-election; the board will be expanded to 11 members, Icahn will take one, and the other two will be chosen based on his recommendation. Yahoo! co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang said this of the agreement: “Thi (Read More)