Archive for Web 2.0
"Imagine if you took all the forums, groups and websites where you talk about all the different things you are interested in and put them in a single system. And then you upgraded them all so they made the most of new internet technology like Ajax to make the discussion real-time (fast) and rich media (pretty with pictures and videos). Then you're starting to get an idea of what Tangler is building." It\’s already possible to embed your very own chat-room right into a blog post or website using free services such as Meebo, previously tested out and reviewed here at Master New Media. While this can be a valuable way of gathering and entering all important conversation with your …
Social Networking: A Beginner’s Guide To Facebook
Posted by: | CommentsOnline social networking services have been around for some time now, with MySpace, Bebo and Facebook leading the pack. One of these contenders, however, has just stepped the whole game up a level, effectively becoming a disruptive technology. Not so very long ago Facebook was one popular flavor of social networking service, differentiated by its user-base, design and specific features. Nevertheless, the differences between Facebook and MySpace or Bebo were less than monumental. All of that has since changed with the launch of the Facebook Platform. Facebook Platform has opened up this already hugely popular online destination to third-party developers, and the results are nothing short of breathtaking. What you now have, in addition to a solid core of social …
Online Marketing: How User-Generated Content Can Drive Web 2.0 Online Campaigns
Posted by: | CommentsUser-generated content is one of the cornerstones of Web 2.0, evident everywhere you look, from social bookmarking to video sharing, from Wikipedia to MySpace. And now user-generated content (UGC) is also transforming the way we do marketing. Here\’s how: Photo credit: Andres Rodriguez User generated marketing is creating quite a buzz, tapping into the participatory culture of the emerging web, and transforming consumers into creative partners. The process is called crowdsourcing, and it involves turning all or part of a project over to consumers, and investing in the wisdom of crowds principle. The idea is simple – a group will very often produce solutions far superior to anything a single individual might in the same circumstances. Turn this over to …
How To Record, Promote And Finance Your Music Talent: SellaBand
Posted by: | CommentsTo succeed as a recording artist or band these days it is essential to promote your music online. But breaking your way into the recording industry is far from easy. Luckily there is a service that helps you to do just that by tapping into the phenomenon of crowdsourcing. \’\'Crowdsourcing is a neologism for a business model in which a company or institution takes a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsources it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call over the Internet.\’\’ (Wikipedia, Crowdsourcing) Sellaband taps into the crowdsourcing model by turning the fans and listeners of bands into their product evangelists, asking them to invest …
Online Video Annotation Takes A Giant Leap Forward: Meet The All-New Mojiti
Posted by: | CommentsOnline video annotation has just taken a giant leap forward, giving you the opportunity to add subtitles, text, animated shapes and pointers, freehand text and drawings, images, webcam video and even RSS feeds directly into your web-hosted videos. Until now a range of online video annotation services have made it easy to take your source video and add subtitles, text bubbles and shapes, animated graphics and even voice-overs right from your browser. But none of them have combined all of these features, and added a great many more to the mix, until now. Today the latest release of Mojiti effectively gives you a simple-to-use mini-motion-graphics studio to play with, bringing to you a mixture of tools ranging from the incredibly …
At the end of 2006, Time magazine decided that its person of the year was "You". Yes, You. All the You\’s that create and rate content on heavy hitting sites such as MySpace, Wikipedia and YouTube. The reason behind this is that a shift has happened where content isn\’t generated or rated by experts anymore. Instead it\’s by everyday folk like you. Photo credit: Yuri Arcurs This is further back up by a recent Revolution survey showed that within the 16-44 age group: 48% have been to a blog site 26% have created their own blog 74% have rated or reviewed products, content or services User generated content is one of the key foundations of Web 2.0. (For those of …