In a previous post, it was seen that two college students could, in their spare time, make an unofficial brand application that attracted hundreds of thousands of users. But what about the official applications? Why is it that so often, when companies invest a great deal of time and effort into creating applications, they fail? […]
Why do Corporate Facebook Apps Often Fail?
June 28th, 2008 ·
Tags: Case Studies · Social Media
Data Portability Gets a Boost from Social Networks
May 14th, 2008 ·
There’s a certain catch-22 in social media: everyone wants to use the thing that everyone else is using. Critical mass is, well, critical. But getting to that critical mass from nothing is the tricky part. Such has been the fate of OpenID, the essence of which is the idea that people should share their login […]
Tags: Industry News · Social Media


