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Social Media and Revenues: Where’s the Profit?

Onur Yilmaz | 31 October 2010, 11:36 pm | tags: , , , , ,

The information economy that the Internet has facilitated has given rise to some interesting new problems for entrepreneurs and investors as well as webdesigners and creators. When your product is dislocated from material instances, how do you identify demand or a target audience? How do you market and define your service within a dense field of competing, free alternatives? How…

Social Networks and Frameworks of Activism

Onur Yilmaz | 26 September 2010, 7:25 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

For nearly ten years now, media analysts and commentators like Tim O’Reilly have sung the praises of Web 2.0 and social media. The new World Wide Web, characterised by its writerly, inclusive and connective nature, was to democratize the Internet and society around it to a degree hitherto unseen. Web 2.0 was to place to end user in the…