Emerging Technologies and Trends in Social Media By: Jawad Shuaib W : http://jawadonweb.com
THERE ARE ONLY 24 HRS IN A DAY
 
 
 
 
None Of These Sites Existed  8 Years Ago
 
The mobile web is growing  8x faster  than the equivalent desktop web from 10 years ago.
The Long Tail of Startups
New Media is “ Present Media ”
HOW DID WE GET HERE? Internet vs. WWW
TCP/IP ,  Browser Wars ,  Internet Bubble  and  Search .
Web 1.0 -> Web 2.0 Limitations of Web 1.0 and the eventual transition to Web 2.0
60 billion  web pages! How big is the WWW?
28% of World Population
ACTIVE VS. PASSIVE Content is consumed in two ways:
Evolution of Media
Internet Is Not Going to Replace Television
SO WHAT’S SO SOCIAL ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA?
 
What Do These Sites Have In Common?
What Makes Website Social? Identity:  who are you? Reputation:  what do people think you stand for? Presence:  where are you? Relationships:  who are you connected with? who do you trust? Groups:  how do you organize your connections? Conversations:  what do you discuss with others?
The Consumers Of Content Are Also Its Producers
Social News & Bookmarking Blogs Blogger Wordpress Tumblr Posterous Social Bookmarking Delicious Digg/Reddit/HN Mixx
News Has Become Instantaneous
Social Networking
 
 
Social Networking Personal Twitter Ning Hi5 MySpace Facebook Professional LinkedIn Sprouter Ryze Plaxo Xing
Facebook is for  real-time communication MySpace is for  music artists  and fan groups Hi5 is for  gamers  and high-school students LinkedIn is for  business professionals  and recruiters Ning is for creating  niche social networks .
“ Facebook is like a jail; You sit around and waste time, you write on walls and get poked by people you don’t even know.”
The Social Graph “ The global mapping of everybody and how they're related.”
Social Graph Attributes Users Pages Events Movies  Likes  Photos Videos Notes Check-ins
What can you do with the Social Graph?
Facebook vs. Twitter
Twitter is as of 2010 processing more than one billion tweets per month
Facebook Real relationships Connected network Media updates On-site third party applications Twitter Open relationships Idea network Status updates Off-site third party applications Facebook vs. Twitter
 
 
Virtual Currency Virtual Goods Are Worth $1.5 billion
Social Photos and Videos Flickr/Getty Images Twitpic YouTube/Hulu
Social Collaboration Wikipedia Google Wave Google Maps Collaborative Documents/Wikis
Social Bookmarking Digg was built for less than $2000 Delicious sold for $30 million
Collaborative Buying WagJag/LivingSocial/RedFlagDeals Groupon rumoured to be sold for $5.3 billion
Location Based Services (LBS) Search today has a new dimension to it: location. Locating people on a map ( Facebook Places, Google Lat ) Recommending social events ( Meetup, Gowalla ) Finding nearby services, such as a restaurant ( Yelp, Google Places ) Turn by turn navigation to any address Mobile Commerce in terms of redeeming coupons ( Foursquare )
Facebook Places
Foursquare FourSquare used by businesses to reward their most loyal customers (Starbucks)
Micro Applications (Widgets and Mashups) Causes Mafia Wars Farmville iGoogle Apps Pip.io
Industry Leading Blogs Social Media: Mashable.com Startup News: TechCrunch.com New Media Analysis: ReadWriteWeb.com Latest Gadgets: Engadget.com Television and Media: GigaOm.com Canadian Startups: StartupNorth.ca
HOW IS CONTENT SPREAD? SEARCH VS. DISCOVERY
Content Syndication vs. Aggregation
Content Syndication Me Facebook Twitter Other Users
Open Source Content License GNU General Public License (GPL) Creative Commons MIT License
Content Aggregation Content Aggregator Blog NY Times Facebook Me
TECHNICAL TERMS AND LEXICON
Useful Concepts API Torrents/P2P Content Tags Cloud Computing Mashups and Widgets HTML 5 and Semantic Web Augmented Reality
Cloud Computing Amazon S3 Microsoft Azure Google App Engine
HTML 5 HTML 5 bridges the gap between desktop and web apps. Video without Flash Geolocation SQL Storage (for offline support) Defined markup, header, footer, aside, content, article
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES The quiet revolution
There Is An Ongoing Movement Towards  Open Data
Open Data Facebook Connect and API Twitter OAuth OpenID OpenSocial Google Connect
When Picking a Platform, Consider: Geographic location of target users Ownership of data (copyright issues) Flexibility of platform Usage limits Potential for monetization Ability to leverage the social graph
EXTENDING THE DESKTOP EXPERIENCE The Social Smart Phone
When Forecasting The Future, Look East
 
Some New Devices
Review Of Popular Mobile Phones Windows 7 Mobile
Review Of Popular Mobile Phones Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
Review Of Popular Mobile Phones iPhone
Review Of Popular Mobile Phones Samsung
Review Of Popular Mobile Phones BlackBerry
Reference: http://gigaom.com
 
iTunes has sold over 1 billion songs
TABLET WARS Year 2011
Tablet Wars Apple iPad
All iPhone Applications Run On iPad
More than 300, 000 iPads sold on first day
Tablet Wars Samsung Galaxy Tab
Tablet Wars BlackBerry Playbook
Tablet Wars Dell Streak
Tablet Wars Microsoft
Canada’s Service Provider Rogers Fido, Chatr Wireless Bell Virgin Telus Koodo Wind Mobile/Mobilicity/Public Mobile
Network Types CDMA Good national coverage GSM Supports SIM 3G Fast broadband support HSPA Bell and Telus moved from 3G 4G
A Device That’s Not Connected Is Not Interesting
Popular Mobile Platforms iPhone Windows Mobile 7 Series Android BlackBerry Ovi
It’s Cheaper To Develop For iPhone
Applications Sell For More On BlackBerry $1.99 on iPhone $2.72 on Android $5.99 on BlackBerry
TYPES OF MOBILE APPLICATIONS
How To Choose Between  WAP vs. Native
WAP vs. Native WAP applications are easier to build for. It works across devices. Native applications can better leverage the device hardware (i.e. gps, compass, accelerometer).
Application Examples Angry Birds Yelp Augmented Reality/TinEye Google Translator Netflix ING Mobile Payments TomTom GPS Audible Books Yellow Pages
A Phone Is No Longer A Phone, It’s Your Alter Ego
GAMING PLATFORMS
Gaming Is A Bigger Industry Than Hollywood
“ Call of Duty” Sold 14 Million Copies In 24 Hours
Three Types Gaming Consoles Handheld Devices Web Based
Gaming Consoles Nintendo Wii Sony Playstation Microsoft Xbox
Handheld Devices Sony PSP Nintendo DS Microsoft Zune, Apple iPhone, etc
Microsoft Kinect
Flash vs. Apple
INTERNET TELEVISION
Internet Television (IPTV) Google TV Android Software Platform Make content searchable Apple TV Hardware box Stream YouTube, iTunes, Music Collection Microsoft Media Room SDK to add more depth to content
MONETIZATION OF DIGITAL MEDIA
On The Internet There Are A Few Millionaires But Hardly Any Billionaires
Monetization Models Freemium Software as a Service (SaaS) Advertising Affiliate Marketing E-Commerce Product Placement Branded Entertainment Subscription Model
Freemium The marginal cost of an additional user is almost zero Free products with pro subscriptions
Advertising Embedded YouTube Ads Google Adsense / Adbrite TextLinkAds
Affiliate Marketing Commission Junction Amazon Affiliates
E-Commerce EventBrite (Event Registration) Monster (Job Board) E-Bay (PayPal) ING Mobile Payments
Product Placement and Branded Entertainment The future of branded entertainment is social. OldSpice Commercials Seth Macfarlane LoneyGirl15 Maynards
Subscription Model Wall Street Journal Netflix/Rogers on Demand
PAID VS. ORGANIC GROWTH
Advertising Is  Not  Marketing Turn strangers into friends and friends into customers.
Paid Growth Social Ads Google Adwords (CPC/CPM/CPL) Newsletter Campaigns
Organic Growth Direct Traffic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Viral
Suggested Reading Material
Suggested Reading Material
SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING
Users Have An Attention Span Of An Orangutan
How Is Content Spread? Content That Stands Out User Gets Rewarded For Sharing It
SUCCESS METRICS What Gets Measured Gets Improved
Traffic Metrics Measure Web Traffic with Google Analytics, Crazy Egg, ChartBeat Measure Social Interactions with TweetDeck, Alerts, and Google Blog Search Measure Blog Subscriptions with Feedburner Compare traffic using Compete/Alexa Identify success using A/B testing and conversions
“ When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the  World Wide Web ... Now even my cat has it's own page.”  – Bill Clinton
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Emerging Technologies and Trends in Social Media

Editor's Notes

  • #7 You know you need to be on a website when both your barber and your city mayor are on it!
  • #13 Difference between Internet and WWW. Any two persons can be connected through a social network by 5 degrees of separation or less.
  • #14 How does TCP/IP work? What were the Browser Wars? Why did the Internet Bubble happen? The evolution of search.
  • #15 Collective Intelligence (Wisdom of the Crowds) Dynamic Site Content pip.io Communities
  • #17 More than the population of China.
  • #19 Couch to computer chair
  • #20 Just as the television did not replace the radio, and radio did not replace the newspapers, and newspapers didn’t replace office gossip, the internet is not going to replace the television.
  • #24 My interactions define me.
  • #27 Google searches for popular terms returns 'Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Google News results' http://www.google.com/realtime
  • #32 Real-time updates: http://pip.io/ Ning – Viral Loop
  • #34 A collection of objects in the graph (people, pages, photos, etc) and the connections between them (e.g., friend relationships, shared content, and photo tags). What's the goal (Facebook): Offer Facebook social graph to websites so that they may utilize the objects and the connections between them outside of Facebook.   What's the goal (Google): Google Social Graph API takes advantage of public connections and makes them accessible to developers. Social Plugins available on nextMEDIAEvents
  • #35 Users: https://graph.facebook.com/btaylor (Bret Taylor) Pages: Movies https://graph.facebook.com/me/movies?access_token=2227470867|2.qc1Bf4z_U_ECHahAQjOQVg__.3600.1291309200-172004637|tpgZvSM85DKj1iM8AXM_E7hj5JY Likes https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes?access_token=2227470867|2.qc1Bf4z_U_ECHahAQjOQVg__.3600.1291309200-172004637|tpgZvSM85DKj1iM8AXM_E7hj5JY
  • #36 Most breakups happen 2 weeks before Christmas.
  • #38 Twitter has passed more than 10 billion tweets
  • #39 TweetDeck
  • #42 SecondLife lindens Zynga reported that direct purchases of virtual currency and goods accounted for most of its more than $100 million in revenue for 2009. Mafia Wars.
  • #43 YouTube has more than two billion views per day Hulu: Fox and NBC Universal, $100 million in revenue
  • #46 LivingSocial received $175 million in funding
  • #47 GPS/Signal Triangulation has made this possible
  • #49 Location Based Advertising (LBA)
  • #50 What’s the difference between Widgets and Mashups? Applications Built On Top Of Applications Find speed traps using Google Maps: http://www.trapster.com/
  • #52 Search vs. Discovery: Amazon recommendation engine
  • #53 User Generated Content (UGC)
  • #54 RSS Feeds Show how I use Google Reader to Syndicate Content Ping.fm
  • #55 http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
  • #56 http://nextmedia-source.com Google Buzz Show how I use Google Reader http://jawadonweb.com/projects/spy/ http://jawadonweb.com/projects/feed2blog
  • #58 API -> Facebook CUTC Competition
  • #59 Evernote Shazam
  • #60 Browser based offline outlook.
  • #63 OpenSocial vs. Facebook Markup Language
  • #68 Netbooks vs. Tablets
  • #69 Hubs and Pivots .NET Framework
  • #70 Android
  • #71 Retina Display
  • #75 Calls over Data vs. Traditional Telecom
  • #78 9 inches $549 for 16GB + Wifi No USB How will your website look in iPad: http://ipadpeek.com
  • #81 7 inches 600, 000 units sold Includes dual camera Plays Flash $650
  • #82 HTML 5 7 inches Executives (not heavy on games) Dual cameras Supports HDMI and USB
  • #83 5 inches Android based
  • #84 Microsoft Surface
  • #87 Google Goggles Shazam, search AC/DC Iron Man
  • #88 Windows XNA technology will support cross device development XNA Demonstration: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/microsoft-shows-off-xna-games-running-on-windows-phone-full-3d/
  • #90 70% to %30 Revenue Sharing Model for iPhone Applications
  • #94 Angry Birds -> Why is it so successful - Easy to learn - Utilizing features of the platform - Easy to pickup but it has depth - Graphics
  • #95 Mobile first.
  • #100 MMOs/MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Role Playing Game): World of Warcraft, Farmville FPS: Medal of Honor
  • #101 Sony PSP is also a media player Sony PSP is used for fighting games DS is usually used for adventure or educational games (casual)
  • #102 Your whole body becomes the controller. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf44bWQr3jc
  • #103 Microsoft Silverlight
  • #104 Surf the internet Run apps like Netflix, games, flash Stream content from mobile to your tv Translate content real-time
  • #105 Apple: Rent 99c shows Microsoft : Nascar races: Choose your own cockpit driver view CNN: Show polls on candidates
  • #108 FREE audible book SalesForce.com RakeSecret.com ZendCart, PayPal, Google Checkout LonelyGirl15
  • #109 Give away the cell phone, sell the monthly plan; make the videogame console cheap and sell expensive games; Free version for Flickr, charge for pro.   Zero marginal cost to distribute: music. give away for free - charge on merchandise, licensing, and concerts.
  • #111 Monetizing Facebook Applications: http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=215
  • #113 Well-executed product placement adds value to the content and no longer becomes a “cost” to the consumer at all. Brand equity will be measured by the strength of the brand community. OldSpice : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cs95FmimP0&feature=channel Seth Macfarlane : http://www.youtube.com/sethcomedy YouTube Insights: http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_insight
  • #116 Define position
  • #117 Search vs. Discovery ads CPM -> cost per 1000 impressions When someone says something like, "our CPM is $5," this means that the cost per impression is $0.005. Campaign Monitor
  • #118 How Google Social Search Works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlpTjP6h6Ms SEO: Show AlphaWolfram Something out of the ordinary, “Will it Blend” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko Wedding Dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0 FlameWhale
  • #119 Don’t interrupt. Permission Marketing.
  • #120 Search ads: 12 billion Display ads: 6 billion Search advertising is more effective because it targets intent.
  • #123 Groupon strategy for sharing content “ Sent via iPhone” makes the user appear cool Figure out how your application will make your users promote themselves, and you will have built a viral loop.
  • #125 A/B testing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yTjj9MnzRY
  • #127 #HoHoTo, CaseCamp, DemoCamp