Tag Archives: Web 2.0

Upending the Get Rich Quick Business Model

The title of the post should really be “Upending the Traditional Website Development Model”. This week, we launched Breaking Shopping News.com and Breaking REO News.com to prove conceptually how Twitter and the new real time micro-blogging and communication tools can be used 1) for local advertising and 2) local reporting of the bank-owned housing markets, [...]

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The Future of Twitter. Web 2.0 Expo seems Stuck on This.

As much as we love Twitter, Web 2.0 Expo seems stuck at what Twitter has wrought, and can’t seem to focus further than the next Twitter app. WSJ Digits reports that the presentation on Twitter business models was the most popular, and the best comment they could muster is “Twitter is the canary in the [...]

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The New Web 2.5 Opportunity: Create Media Hubs

The New Web 2.5 Opportunity: Create Media Hubs

TODAY’S ONLINE CONTENT FATIGUE Web 2.0 could be described as a phase in the evolution of the Internet that facilitated individuals in creating content within the constructs of social websites (blogs) and social networks (as participants). User-generated content was the New New Thing when it first appeared refreshingly on blogs (in 2002 blogs were being [...]

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Mainstream Media as News Aggregator

Mainstream Media as News Aggregator

New York Times states Mainstream Media News Outlets Start Linking to Other Sites. It’s a portal strategy to leverage their print and TV brand names, and keep them relevant as comprehensive news sources. The advent of Web 2.0 news aggregation communities like mainstay Digg and Social Median have legitimized news aggregation and sharing across a [...]

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The Big Reader Divide between Mass Media and Social Media

The Big Reader Divide between Mass Media and Social Media

We in the social media implicitly understand that the mainstream media readership are still getting their feet wet when it comes to finding, reading and subscribing to blogs (unless they look like MSM like Huffington Post, or are blogs residing within MSM like the NYT). I discovered a contrary example in a Washington Post article [...]

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