“E-books have been aggressively marketed for five or six years in the United States. Yet despite rapidly acquiring market share they show no sign of displacing actual books, with which they will comfortably coexist in the digital future.”
Unlike Apple’s or Google’s raw materials—chips and touchscreens, Web pages and videos—Facebook’s main ingredient is ordinary people all over the world. And people are known to be a restive, fickle, crazy, unpredictable bunch. Is it really so wise to invest in us?
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/02/facebook_ipo_is_the_social_networking_behemoth_really_a_good_business_.html
According to this article, MyPod is online video’s “Gated Community.” With richer visuals and hand-picked content (not just anyone can post) Forbe’s Michael Humphrey picks the brain of the CEO of MyPod Jay Miletsky in an online interview.
Social media changes what privacy means and what relationships mean. There are a lot of things that are wildly intimidating about it, but that’s one of the reasons that I was attracted to this field. I think we have an opportunity and a responsibility to recognize that changes are happening: There’s a cosmic shift in the way communities, on a person-to-person level, and governments interact and communicate.
Erica Anderson, Katie Couric’s former Digital Media Strategist in a Huffington Post Interview
