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Social Networks are PRIVACY and not price sensative…

Yesterday I wrote an article about the Privacy debate that had be raging over Facebook’s new “Open Graph” upgrades (Click here to read the story).

The last point of my post was that Privacy (not Price like many other businesses) was the sensitivity that social networks compete on.

Well, both CNet and Forbesare reporting that [...]

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Happy Birthday YouTube

How else would the world’s biggest TV channel celebrate their 5th birthday other than a video…

But before you watch it did you also know that;

YouTube’s front page receives every day 45,000,000 hit 70 percentage of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US. Every minute of the day 24 hours of video is uploaded [...]

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Is Facebook, or its management, becoming the privacy risk?

Protecting privacy starts with the user and not the social network. But it also provides the most competitive playing field any social network can compete on [...]

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Another loss in the Freemium battle…

Ning.com is another example of where users of a web service have had the game rules changed on them just as they become reliant on the service. But when the best defence for your business is to discourage competitors by being free (because you can’t discount FREE) of course the reverse must be true – remove a free product from consumers and they will start hunting around for a new service that offers them the same pricing structure. [...]

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Investors move away from advisors to become more “social”

You can understand the strong case for using social media for investment decisions when those aged 21-39 relied on websites, friends, family and work colleagues for investment advice. [...]

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CBA gets Social…

To beat up a bank is easy – like taking a toy from a kitten – anyone and everyone does it. The hard thing is to congratulate them on a smart choice, and for this I must clear the throat and say “WELL DONE COMMONWEALTH BANK” for showing iniative in employing their first Social Marketing Manager [...]

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Poll: Would you share buy and sell details of you stock trades via a social network?

I need your input on some research I am doing so please click through to this posting. It’s all about the sharing of transaction data on Social Networks, namely if you would or would not be willing to share buys/sells in the equity market on networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. After you vote, you’ll be able to see results and analysis of how different types of professionals answered the question – and I will remind you to come back in a fortnight to check out the final results. And be sure to leave a comment if you have an opinion… [...]

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Google says “look to your friends” for results.

When I wrote about the “Live Web” being integrated with search results the excitement was that Google was now able to serve up Twitter, Facebook and News articles in real-time as part of your search results – sort the same as a stock ticker would as trades are made. This Live Web offering was captivating because you were watching other people’s opinions pop up before your eyes as they wrote them. But Social Search is far more important because the contributions are from peers or services you know and because you control who is in and out this enhancement has so many legs to it. [...]

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No Facebook please…We’re in Financial Services…

If we take the concept of “elegant organisation” and apply what the ASX stats suggest (that is, more people look to the Internet and Friends/Family then Advisers) we can see how much of an impact that Social Media could have in this niche financial industry, the problem is what ASIC are reviewing does not consider the nature nor the dynamics of Peer-to-Peer networks. [...]

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