 | |
- close
- close
|
Sydney Morning Herald
7 hrs ago
Comment
Telstra's ambitious foray into social media has backfired after its Twitter account was hacked and used to spread malicious links.
Marketwire
Nov 5
Comment
JERICHO, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 11/05/09 -- Social Media Ventures, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SMVI) is pleased to announce that it has begun to develop a suite of virtual goods for members of the Company's innovative social networking site for pet owners,
TechCrunch
Nov 4
Comment
One of the biggest problems users face every day is how difficult it has become to follow news streams from many different sources without getting lost in the noise — from mainstream media, to the millions of blogs, YouTube and other social...
Cloud Computing
Nov 4
Comment
InsideView today revealed a significant
business trend in how companies are changing their approach to their
overall sales process, as it announced that hundreds of companies are
switching from legacy sales data providers to InsideView's...
TechCrunch
Nov 4
Comment
[Ireland] Social media consultants Simplyzesty started using Twitter Lists to list blogs. However, a brainwave has lead them to take Twitter Lists to their logical conclusion: creating lists of Twitter users in entire countries. They've launched a...
Cloud Computing
Nov 2
Comment
iSyndica’s latest update gives stock photographers the ability to distribute their images with custom watermarks to popular social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr. The custom watermarks can be applied to portfolios automatically, saving...
TechCrunch
Nov 1
Comment
Feedback is rolling in on our Scamville post last night. Even more people are coming forward to talk about their experiences getting ripped off by Offerpal and SuperRewards, or how they were pitched by these companies to add offers to their apps....
Red Orbit
Oct 31
Comment
Boston College researchers find real-time advocacy challenges long-standing corporate practicesThe rise of social media and real-time advocacy have re-written the community outreach rules companies followed for decades.
|
Topic
Top news source/blog that we're missing
Why do you recommend this news source?
|
||
more ▼WIKI ANALYSIS
WIKI ANALYSIS
 |
This article describes a concept which could impact a variety of companies, countries or industries. To see what companies and articles reference this concept page, click here. |
TOP CONTRIBUTORS
Social media describes websites that allow users to share content, media, etc. Common examples are the popular social networking sites like Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, etc. Social media also includes YouTube, Photobucket, Flickr, and other sites aimed at photo and video sharing. News aggregation and online reference sources, examples of which are Digg and Wikipedia, are also counted in the social media bucket.
- News Corporation (NWS) owns Myspace, the most-viewed website in the world. It also purchased Photobucket, a photo-sharing website.
- Yahoo! (YHOO) has been making moves to enter the social media segment. Its Flickr photo-sharing website and 360 social networking site are examples of this.
- Google (GOOG) purchased YouTube, a leading online video sharing website.
- Microsoft (MSFT) announced a minority $240 million investment in Facebook in late October, valuing the company at an estimated $5 to $15 billion overall.
- AOL announced on March 2008 the $850 million purchase of Bebo. At the time, Bebo was the third largest social networking site behind MySpace and Facebook in terms of page views and unique monthly visitors, both key metrics for online advertising
| ||||||
|
|
