Digital World in Analog Terms

In these digital times it sometimes helps to explain things in analog terms. How to tell about a web 2.0 start up to people who associate business on web with selling dog food at a loss to huge number of potential (vs. buying) customers? One solution: find an analogy from the “real” world. Here’s my …

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Designing a Web 2.0 service

The “million dollar question”: What makes a good social media web site? Providing a useful service and putting in the standard social media concepts such as social graph, wisdom of crowds and UGC are the pre-requisites but hardly enough if the site doesn’t provoke people’s interest. The diminishing attention span of the Internet public calls …

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What makes social media?

Social media is one of the Web 2.0 core concepts. As such, understanding the concept thoroughly is one of the keys in developing a successful Web 2.0 web site. Basically social media denotes a site that gives its users tools for interacting with each other. Thus basically any blog or wiki or photosharing system is …

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