Paul Jacobson

Category: Social Web

  • OpenSocial: Google’s social networking initiative

    Details about Google’s plans for the social networking space are emerging (at last). It is called OpenSocial (the url will apparently go live later today after the announcement) and Om Malik just published a post in which he reveals that the initiative is “a set of common APIs for building social applications on the web.…

  • … please turn out the lights …

    That’s it, the event we (well, a small percentage of “we”) have feared has come to pass and it is time to see if we (the aforesaid small percentage of “we”) have the brass ones to leave Facebook. Microsoft has bought 1.6% of Facebook for $240 million which makes Microsoft a part owner of one…

  • Why Google doesn’t need Facebook

    Facebook is a tremendous success and I am certain Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t wake up in the morning regretting his decision to drop out of college and start Facebook. He has turned down huge reported offers of $1 billion for his social network and continues to innovate and improve Facebook. There have been rumours that everyone…

  • M&G hearts Facebook

    Mail and Guardian has jumped onto the Facebook platform with a new Facebook application that serves up news headlines in your news feed. So far both Mail and Guardian and The Times have a presence on Facebook and this makes sense because so many people are using Facebook today. I do wonder how valuable a…

  • Knowledge sharing … Microsoft style

    I came across the Office 2007 channel on Revver and got a kick out of this video which illustrates knowledge sharing really well (even though it is more of an ad for Microsoft’s latest office software): Technorati Tags:sharing, knowledge sharing, video, revver, microsoft office 2007

  • Look within … your comments, that is

    There is a reference to an interview conducted with the CEO of CoComment on Everything is Miscellaneous that includes a discussion about how CoComment enables its corporate clients to delve into the comments posted to their sites to identify the experts and higher profile commentators. They can also identify the more vocal commentators who may…

  • A measure of success for social media

    The term “Bubble 2.0” comes up quite a bit lately when not too long ago it seemed we had broken the bubble-bust cycle we last saw in the late 1990s. For those who were not conscious of the bubble bursting last time around, it was a heady time when there was a Web site for…

  • Social media will be like air

    I have just been watching a video podcast episode of Marketing Voices with Jennifer Jones (part of the PodTech.net network) where Jennifer interviews Charlene Li from Forrester Research. Li believes that social media will be so commonplace in the coming years that it will be “like air”. Take a look at the video to find…