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50% of top sites are social media

31st October 2007 Jon Reed

Reading Time: 3 minutes E-marketer reported this week on the most popular websites in the world, ranked by page views. Half of the most

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Facebook ban is bad for business

30th August 200729th December 2020 Jon Reed

Reading Time: 3 minutes Have you been banned from using Facebook at work? How unfair is that? More and more big companies are imposing

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the future is already here

6th August 2007 Jon Reed

Reading Time: 2 minutes Futurology fan that I am, I’m loving the work of William Gibson – the guy who invented the term ‘cyberspace’

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Second Life gets a new voice

14th June 2007 Jon Reed

Reading Time: 2 minutes I mused in a previous posting that Second Life would get more interesting once the environment became more realistic, and

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blogs, social media and identity

8th June 2007 Jon Reed

Reading Time: 3 minutes I spent a day earlier this week holed up in the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London for the second Blogs

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3rd June 2007 Jon Reed

Reading Time: 2 minutes A quick news round-up, and an update on a couple of previous postings. I mentioned Tim Guest’s book Second Lives:

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what are you doing right now?

20th May 2007 Jon Reed

Reading Time: 2 minutes How about now? Now? Now? That’s annoying, isn’t it? But one of the more recent social networking sites asks that

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Second Life – a place for reading

18th May 2007 Jon Reed

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week it was Macmillan topping the charts on YouTube. This week it’s Random House getting into Second Life. It’s

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the social media revolution

9th May 2007 Jon Reed

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Digg Revolt notwithstanding, there is a more general Internet revolution going on. It’s part of the web 2.0 thing

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why the future of search is social

8th May 200729th December 2020 Jon Reed

Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you remember when, at the start of the Internet, there was no Google? There were no search engines as

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57 academics just punched the air

19th April 2007 Jon Reed

Reading Time: 2 minutes One Marketing Director also punched the air at a London Book Fair seminar this week when, in response to the

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