Category Archives: trends

How Might Friedman’s Flat World Affect The Public Relations Industry?

August 14, 2008 – 11:51 pm

How might Thomas Friedman’s affect the public relations industry? How can we become untouchable, and which parts of our industry might be outsourced?

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Newspapers: A Growth Business?

July 27, 2008 – 3:15 pm

According to the World Association of Newspapers, newspaper circulations world-wide rose 2.57% in 2007 and 9.39% over the last five years.

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Early Adopters

June 22, 2008 – 12:55 am

A useful reminder from Sylvain Grand’maison’s presentation at Podcasters Across Borders - right now, we’re all early social media adopters.

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Did Facebook Traffic Outgrow MySpace Last Year?

June 21, 2008 – 1:27 pm

The web has been buzzing over the last few days about Facebook passing MySpace in worldwide traffic recently after the release of new Comscore figures, but did Facebook pass MySpace a while ago?

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FriendFeed Isn’t The Next Google - It’s Just The Next… FriendFeed

June 19, 2008 – 10:07 am

Steve Rubel says FriendFeed could be the next Google. I think he might want to step outside his bubble and reconsider.
Wait - what’s FriendFeed?
  That question, right there, my friends, is why I think Mr. Rubel is wrong. First, though, a little on FriendFeed in case you don’t know much about it.
FriendFeed is a “lifestreaming” [...]

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in social media, social networks | Tagged , | Comments (8)

Reality Check On Twitter

March 11, 2008 – 11:07 pm

It’s time to stand up and call "bullshit" on people who say Twitter is replacing blogs.
Don’t get me wrong - I love Twitter. I use it more than any other social media tool, I have a lot of connections on there and I get a lot out of it. But it’s not replacing blogs (not [...]

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Ten things that will change your future… And The Trends Within

January 7, 2008 – 8:18 pm

As I twittered a few days back, the Sydney Morning Herald recently published an article titled "Ten things that will change your future," looking at "what you need to know to survive the next decade."
The list

The Chumby (http://www.chumby.com)
Microblogging (http://www.pownce.com; http://www.jaiku.com; http://twitter.com)
Everyblock (http://www.chicagocrime.org; http://www.everyblock.com)
23AndMe (http://www.23andme.com)
Peer-To-Peer Lending (http://www.kiva.org)
Mob Rules (http://www.rheingold.com)
Guerilla Wi-Fi (http://www.meraki.com)
World Community Grid (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org)
Loopt (http://www.loopt.com)
One [...]

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