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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. Google Maps. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year).

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Google+ – Yi-Tan Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Warren, Google looked at the mental model of the person who isn’t sharing online and how Google could inspire them to share with more trust and control. Google started with the asymmetric model of sharing first because it is hard for people to grasp.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

User generated content, and the hope of monetizing it through advertising, is at the core of the business model of almost all social media platforms. Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it.