Who Will Rule The New Internet?
Time's Josh Quittner tags Apple, Google, and Facebook as the three most innovative companies in Silicon Valley, and forecasts that one of them will emerge as the dominant platform provider for the social web.
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media file is a repository of links to articles and research reports that shed light on the intersection between open media and global tribes, two phenomena that together are giving birth to a new kind of business: "social enterprise 2.0."
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more media file links for June 9, 2008:
YouTube puts demographic feedback to work
The Los Angeles Times reports on new initiatives by Facebook and Google-owned YouTube to provide demographic data to users who post content to their sites, giving marketers greater insight into what causes social media to go viral.
Facebook lets you vote against lame ads
VentureBeat reports on a Facebook test of a thumbs up/thumbs down rating system for advertising on the site.
MTV: how internet killed the video star
Britain's The Independent reports that MTV Europe faces trouble on two fronts: regulators unhappy with off-color programming on one side, and social networks that face no restrictions on content on the other.
Prince Issues One Takedown Too Many
Electronic Frontier Foundation reports on a tussle between rock acts Prince and Radiohead. Prince wants a YouTube video of him performing a Radiohead tune live taken down; but Radiohead, which owns the copyright, wants it to stay up.
Aspen Institute releases report of its 2007 Forum on Communications and Society
"Media and Values: Issues of Content, Community and Intellectual Property" explores concepts of community social values and intellectual property on the social web, and proposes a set of principles to govern so-called "fair use."
Should Social Networks Be Regulated?
ReadWriteWeb reports that a UK press regulatory commission released results of a study showing that 90 percent of British citizens favored rules protecting use of personal data posted on social networks.
Police Raid One of Russia's Largest Radio Groups
WARC reports that the Russian Media Group, one of that nation's largest broadcast holding companies, was raided in connection with an investigation into tax evasion--a favorite tactic in that country for stifling political opponents.
Leading Chinese video sharing web sites are having trouble staying online
VentureBeat reports that "technical problems" plaguing Chinese video sharing sites may more accurately reflect the government's evolving position on free speech and foreign ownership of media.
Can Microsoft Win the Search Wars with Charity?
ReadWriteWeb reports on Microsoft's so-far mediocre success with Search and Give, a program that pays charities when people search the web using a special Live Search page.
Text to Save Lives: Mobile Giving Takes Off
ReadWriteWeb reports on new "text to give" mobile services from Verizon, PayPal, and a new "social giving" site called mGive.
Mobile Social Web: 975 Million Users By 2012
ReadWriteWeb reports on recent predictions by InStat and IDG's Computerworld of an explosion in the mobile social network space. By 2012, InStat forecasts 30 million US mobile social network users, and Computerworld predicts 975 million users worldwide.
Free WiFi harder than expected
AlwaysOn Network blogger Chris Maresca looks at the demise of MetroFi and wonders if free, advertising-supported wifi service is a non-starter.
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