Trends

How much does Social Media rely on Traditional Media?

Posted by dwalker on May 27, 2009 at 8:44 am

***It has been a long while since I posted anything here. I posted this yesterday on the Social Media Group blog and thought I would re-post here as well***

It seems like every week we hear about another nail in the coffin of traditional media, especially newspapers. According to NewspaperDeathwatch.com, the print editions of [...]

Getting bored of Facebook

Posted by dwalker on March 2, 2008 at 10:34 am

This “We didn’t start the Fire”format is getting a bit tired, the execution is not great, but I couldn’t agree more with the message.

Just about everyone I know is spending considerably less time on Facebook these days comscore reports that the ads don’t work. So if they aren’t gaining user time and having a tough [...]

Future of Software?

Posted by dwalker on February 25, 2008 at 4:42 pm

If you are a mac twitter user, you probably know about twitterific or similar programs. I just installed it and was checking out the pricing options and came across the image you see to the left here.
I have seen various versions of this type of “nagware” licesnse before in shareware, but this was the most [...]

Sleeveface Trend

Posted by dwalker on February 14, 2008 at 9:17 am
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Was just alerted to this trend this morning. People using old album covers as masks and taking photos and upping them to flickr, facebook, etc. Great fun and gives me a reason to crack out some of my old vinyl again.
Sleeveface Flickr Pool
Sleeveface.com
I know this makes me sound old, but this makes me nostalgic [...]

Interruption Vs. Engagement

Posted by dwalker on January 14, 2008 at 1:10 pm

Interesting article in Emarketer on three hidden 2008 trends. While I wouldn’t exactly call these three trends “hidden” they are not easily supported with numbers (which is eMarketer’s raison d’etre).
1. Increased media fragmentation – important, but The Long Tail opened and closed the book on that as a trend.
2. Internet as central hub for marketing [...]