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Creating A Culture of Sharing @ Web2.0 - participate in the discussion

Social media has created a new “Culture of Sharing” that requires trust, transparency, individual judgment and respect among users.   More

Web 2.0 Expo - Creating A Culture of Sharing - Join Us!

Join us at Web 2.0 for a lively conversation about a topic that is increasingly important for a meaningful online experience. We will present data and discuss best-practices that will be useful for people building websites with social media components and those who contribute or reuse content online. We hope to see you there!

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Ripples from a Web 2.0 Summit

2009 was an exciting year at the Web 2.0 Summit. From the battle for real-time search between Bing and Google and platform vs. content presentations from Adobe and AOL, news broke every hour.   More

Tired: Exchange Outages | Wired: Gmail Cloud Latency

Back in the day, at least there was an IT department to harrass. Now, the company blog is the place to complain about the lack of email availability. Read more about the problem some companies are experiencing.   More

PC Start-Up Time: Age of Impatience...or Finally, after so many years.

Matt Richel and Ashlee Vance of the New York Times reported recently on an effort by leading PC manufacturers are cutting the time it takes for a PC to start up. Here's a link to their story.   More

AT&T's pricing policy for IPhone 2.0

Today's NYTimes coverage of the IPhone captured a moment in time. Not only did they cover the debut of a game-changing product, but the newspaper also presented a powerful convergence of at least three different contemporary, that is digital, spheres of business - digital publishing (hint: it's harder than ever), mobile business models in the U.S.   More

Netpop at the New Communications Forum

I had the opportunity to participate at the New Communications Forum conference and enjoyed hearing about the case studies involving the collection and analysis of social media. Went to a presentation provided by Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora. If only he knew how important Pandora is in our office. We've mashed a few stations together and it keeps everybody happy.   More

Netpop Featured in April Issue of Quirk's

Netpop is featured in the April issue of Quirk's Marketing Research Review. Our article - "The Role of the Internet in Brand Discovery" - clarifies the new shopping paradigm and how consumers uncover new purchasing options during the buying process. Download the .pdf.   More

Would you value Facebook at $15 Billion?

Microsoft and Facebook just announced a $240 million investment by Microsoft that places the value on Facebook at $15 Billion.

Evaluate what they invested in yourself by looking at year over year growth of awareness and use of Community sites in the U.S. from 2006 to 2007.

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Awareness and Use of Community Websites - U.S. 2006: More

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