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Last week (9 June 2010) I was lucky enough to listen to Telstra CFO John Stanhope addressed the annual Stockbrokers Association of Australia conference here in Melbourne. One of the points he reinforced was about the boom in social networks via mobile. Of the five million 3G mobile customers he advised that over [...] When it comes to the privacy issues with Facebook nothing displays the reasons for concern better than the Infographics at The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook… [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] I must say I was surprised when I found out who spent the greatest average time per user on such Social Networks as Twitter and Facebook. Australian’s consumed almost 7 hours per user, with the United States and the United Kingdom a close second and third. But if you are starting a social media venture you might want to launch in Brazil… [...] News just out is that Google Apps is now an Exchange-replacement and users can even keep Outlook… It appears that on Tuesday Google announced a new feature of Google Apps for its enterprise customers that allows users to sync their mail, calendar, and contacts with Microsoft Outlook. Bottom line is this enables Google [...] |
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