enterprise ClearStep: A Great Place to Share Knowledge About The New Online Enterprise Sometimes social media users inside big businesses just need to talk about their feelings. More often, they need to share valuable metrics, anecdotes and insights that can help them advance the use of new collaborative tools inside their companies. Where can these conversations go on? Check out ClearStep, a powerful new online community provided… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News Amazon Announces New Payment Services and Updates to Mechanical Turk In a quick succession of announcements, Amazon released a set of hosted e-commerce payment services, as well as an update to its Mechanical Turk service. The payment service, Checkout by Amazon, will allow online retailers to use Amazon's one-click checkout system, calculate shipping costs and tax, as well as allow their customers to track… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Product Reviews SocialVibe Raises $100,000 For Charity In May, we discussed many different ways that social media could be used for social change. One company that has been using the medium for doing social good is SocialVibe. In the past, we described this company as "an online popularity contest that turns corporate advertising into money for charity." With SocialVibe, you get to choose a brand to… Social Sarah Perez View comments
Analysis Has The Web 2.0 Cycle Come to a Close? No The selection process for DEMOfall 08 (RWW is a media partner) is coming to a close and Chris Shipley has been blogging her thoughts about it. She's identified a number of trends in the 'class of DEMOfall 2008', one of which is this claim: the Web 2.0 cycle has come to a close. She also makes a case for an end to the 'free' model for web… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Study: Women Outnumber Men on Most Social Networks Online reputation company Rapleaf has released a new study of 49.3 million people, revealing gender and age data about social network users. On most of the main social networks - including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5 - women outnumber men by a considerable amount. On Facebook, the 18-24 age group is largest, with 1,685,029 women in that age… Richard MacManus View comments