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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