by Jeffrey Mann | December 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Wikileaks organization has been in the news a great deal the past couple weeks with its large scale disclosure of internal communications from the US State Department, and promises to release reportedly explosive internal discussions from banks at a later date. I have held off commenting for awhile to see how the issue played [...]
Category: compliance Facebook privacy security social media social software Tags: Facebook, Julian Assange, Mark Zuckerberg, person of the year, TIME, wikileaks
by Jeffrey Mann | November 1, 2010 | 2 Comments
Today’s announcement that the Telegraaf Media Groep has acquired the company behind the Hyves social networking site is another troubling sign for locally-oriented media sites. Hyves has achieved quite good penetration in the Dutch market, with almost 11 million Dutch users, over half the total population. Despite its efforts, it hasn’t succeeded much in growing [...]
Category: consumerization europe Facebook Hyves social media social software Tags: consumer social networks, europe, Facebook, Holland, Hyves, Netherlands, social media, Telegraaf, TMG
by Jeffrey Mann | October 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
Last week, I had the chance to do a quick tour around Europe with Ed Thompson talking to over 300 people about social media in London, Utrecht, Zurich, Milan, and Frankfurt. I talked about developing strategy, and Ed covered social CRM. While five cities in five days is a quick pace, it’s not out of [...]
Category: collaboration compliance europe Facebook privacy social media social software Strategic Planning symposium Tags: communities, Frankfurt, London, Milan, privacy, social media, social software, symposium, Utrecht, Zurich
by Jeffrey Mann | February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
You may not have realized it, but today is the third annual Safer Internet Day, a day to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially for children and young people around the world. The awkward name, doofy logo and stiff language quickly identify this as a government initiative (with [...]
Category: Cloud collaboration consumerization Facebook privacy security social media social software technology Tags: children on the Internet, EU, Facebook, Insafe, privacy, Safer Internet Day, social networking, social software
by Jeffrey Mann | December 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
It was a hectic, but fun and informative two days at entrepreneur Loic Lemeur’s LeWeb conference for high tech startups in Paris earlier this month. I was looking for exposure to new ideas and activities, and mostly achieve that. That’s me at the lower right of the picture. For those not there, Ustream has posted [...]
Category: Cloud europe Events Facebook Google LeWeb social software startup Vendors Tags: europe, Facebook, lemeur, leweb, venture capital, youtube
by Jeffrey Mann | April 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
It’s odd to see a powerhouse like Facebook scrambling to become more like Twitter, a relative upstart with no visible means of revenue. The reported rejected acquisition bid could play a role in a “If you can’t buy them, copy them” way. But clearly, this is what is happening. First Facebook changed its user interface [...]
Category: consumerization Facebook microblogging social software Twitter Tags: business model, Facebook, openness, twitter
by Jeffrey Mann | February 18, 2009 | 7 Comments
NOTE: This is a work of fiction. When I first heard about Facebook trying to change their Terms of Service to give them perpetual rights to users’ content, even if they delete their data, I was not too fussed. I figured it was to avoid any possible legal complications rather than a sinister secret plan. [...]
Category: Facebook predictions social software Tags: Facebook, IP, patent trolls, privacy, social media, TOS
