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The web has always been all about social media. If your working for an agency that does not get this, your probably working for an agency that designs websites in Flash that are never seen by many people.

Good on you though.

You obviously have not heard of Rose and Olive. See them here http://www.theingoing.blogspot.com/ and here http://www.flickr.com/photos/tetheredto/3611333...

Makes sense. Twitter is far superior way of sharing information with people you dont know. But wathcing TV for entertainment is best when sharing it with close mates.

Very very cool. Love the details.

Ha! Well I am in Londen. Will email forthwith.

Openfire, definitely catchy that. Perhaps you should grab that domain!

Care to share with us how you went about getting the widget out to the masses?

No probs, will fix, the o

Not sure what you mean by video stitching Sean? Come back to me and I can put you in touch with people who know.

Nope, not yet. I thought at first that supplying RSS feeds is enough. But your right I need to add email as many still prefer that. Hope to do so over the next few coming days.

'I expect that the growth in web access in the “developing” world will be straight from GPRS to smartphones, leapfrogging the WAP system.'

Don't you think the cost would be prohibitive at first Michael? Then again you might have a point. The content available on the open Web is imcomparable to the mobile WAP web, and potentially of imense value in the developing world.

Perhaps we'll see a $100 smartphone all over Africa before we see Negropontes $100 laptop?

I suspect there's some users that visit both MySpace and Facebook because they are quite different in some respects. But I also suspect that you are right, together they probably have more unique users than the plethora of blogs.

'But blogs are also merging with mainstream web media, they are used a lot on newssites/papers, and to complement corporate websites, or simply used as the medium/technology on which websites are set up.'

Absolutely. Technorati actually says as much in their state of the nation report. "...as the Blogosphere grows in size and influence, the lines between what is a blog and what is a mainstream media site become less clear. Larger blogs are taking on more characteristics of mainstream sites and mainstream sites are incorporating styles and formats from the Blogosphere. In fact, 95% of the top 100 US newspapers have reporter blogs."

Advertiser's problem is mainly the question of reach. How do they get to be on thousands of blogs? There are so many competing ad networks now. Any many blogs don't have any ad code embedded at all.

Anne Mette, thanks for the very good comment.

I agree with what you say. Marketeers are not obsolete. There is too much info and we do take common sense approaches to buying decisions because we don't have the time to do all the research.

But I do think the web is changing the way marketeers approach customers.

Hype without substance is more difficult than in the past.

Maslow applied to the internet as if its a living thing smells like the work of a Californian Ideologist.

I thought this piece will help us understand why people use social networks and how Maslow can explain this.

Anyway, think of a mobile phone as a social network node, and th address book as a friend list. Seen in this way its obvious that social network will have a big impact in Africa.

Interesting post but you need to be more to the point. Have you tried blik.co.za?

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