Social Media Trends

The news is that whilst Facebook is expanding, Bebo and MySpace are contracting. Facebook is continuing it's world takeover, with more and more members each day. Also on the rise are LinkedIn and Twitter, although I believe Twitter will be a passing fad for the masses I'm sure, remaining popular only for the insecure celebrities and the geeks.

MySpace is a great place for bands to host a few songs, tour dates, and advertise themselves, but as a personal profile social networking site I never though it had any longevity. And Facebook sealed their downfall in this area I think. I would love to see MySpace evolve into an online directory for bands, artists, creatives etc.

Bebo I feel has just not provided a high enough quality of service. The site has always been behind in changes to the way it works and the support is reportedly not to a high level. I think it might just be a case of the better person winning when you compare Bebo and Facebook.

Interestingly FriendsReunited is mentioned. They made the massive mistake of making you pay, which Tagged doesn't seem to have learned from. They "entice" you to buy VIP memberships to give you extra functionality on the site. A mistake I think.

Read more with the full stats:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/11/myspace-bebo-social-networking

Everyone wants to market via social media

The stats here read that marketers are fully into using social media as a way to market their business. Read on for more and all the statistics.

http://www.marketingvox.com/marketers-top-social-media-twitter-blogs-linkedin-facebook-043787/

The reality of social media marketing

I wish all our clients, in fact everyone, had read the following article. Basically saying that social marketing is a skill and costs money. It's not just something you can get some kid at school to knock out and that budgets start at around $50,000!

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2009/tc20090218_335887.htm

Hulu news

Hulu is big. Looks good, just a shame you can't get most content in the UK.

Highlights:

...News Corp.’s (NWS) Fox is getting close to a deal to bring Disney’s (DIS) ABC into the fold.

It’s now the biggest video site that isn’t YouTube.

VideoCensus pegs the site’s February traffic at 309 million video views.

It’s not just a video site, it’s a social network

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090312/hulu-bigger-friendlier-still-missing-two-networks/

Breaking Social Media Rules

Simply an interesting article:

5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded
http://mashable.com/2009/03/10/breaking-social-media-rules/