Category Archives: social media

Wikipedia lessons

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Simeon Simeonov

A comment on my recent post about social commerce pointed to the Wikipedia article on social commerce, which was started in September of 2007, according to the history. Which is funny because I started the first Wikipedia page on social … Continue reading →

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Do social networks care about your privacy?

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Simeon Simeonov

Following my post yesterday on Twitter having to think carefully about privacy, a friend pointed me to a study that shows how social networks leak deep personal information, allowing third parties to combine what you do with who you are. … Continue reading →

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Get in on Brizzly

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Simeon Simeonov

Now is the time to get in on the new thing from Thing Labs (makers of Plinky). It’s called Brizzly and it’s a new, cool and very simple way to experience the social Web. See a screenshot + demo.

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A look inside Twitter

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Simeon Simeonov

Interesting report by folks that mined the Twitter stream. The section on publishing tools is particularly interesting. Less than half of all tweets are made through Twitter’s web interface and I bet this includes some posts made through the API. … Continue reading →

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Amazon Funds AWS Darling Animoto

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

My friend Stevie Clifton, CTO at Animoto, pinged me early this morning with the news that Amazon has funded his company. This comes on the heels of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos using Animoto as a great example of how to leverage … Continue reading →

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Viral Dictionary

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

I met the folks at Pandemic Labs a few weeks ago at a MITX event. Great small team–a technology-leveraged agency specializing in viral and social marketing. Their new site launched over the weekend and the viral dictionary caught my attention–I … Continue reading →

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Getting Social Platforms Right

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Since I’m a platform guy by background, I’ve been very interested in how social infrastructure, i.e., social platforms such as Facebook’s F8, Bebo’s clone, Google’s OpenSocial and MySpace’s recently launched developer platform, is going to evolve. Some recent good reading on … Continue reading →

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MySpace + Google >= Facebook?

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

The much expected, joked about and pre-announced MySpace developer platform is finally here. Well, not quite: As Aber mentioned, we’re currently in a sandbox phase. Here are the important points to understand about this phase: Your application profiles are private … Continue reading →

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OpenSocial: The Lowest Common Denominator?

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Simeon Simeonov

Google’s OpenSocial is becoming the lowest common denominator for application integration in the social media space. That’s actually not that great for Google as it is rarely the case that the most successful applications run on the lowest common denominator … Continue reading →

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