Tag: User Generated Content
The Internet Society of China has recommended to the government that bloggers be required to use their real names when they register blogs, state media said on Monday, in the latest attempt to regulate free-wheeling Web content.
The society, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Information Industry, said no decision had been made but that a 'real name system' was inevitable.
"A real name system will be an unavoidable choice if China wants to standardize and develop its blog industry," the official Xinhua news agency quoted the...
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According to Nielsen//NetRatings, MySpace Is Fastest Growing Among Top Web Brands, Google Maintains Double Digit Growth
Nielsen//NetRatings, announced this week that user-generated content sites, platforms for photo sharing, video sharing and blogging, comprised five out of the top 10 fastest growing Web brands in July 2006.
Image hosting site ImageShack ranked number four among July's fastest growing Web brands, increasing 233 percent, from a unique audience of 2.3 million to 7.7 million. Heavy.com, a video sharing site, took the...
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During his talk at the Wikimania conference this morning, Yochai Benkler criticized Weblogs Inc. founder Jason Calacanis, Yochai probably didn't know that Jason was listening in the audience. During the questions period, Jason got up and introduced himself, referring to himself as a fan of Benkler's work and noting that there really wasn't as much of a gap between them as Benkler might think. This is just a reality of today's online business world, he explained, just like there are paid firefighters and volunteer ones, yet both classes of...
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All great business models are born by understanding and fulfilling fundamental human needs. And Web 2.0 is no exception. The defining characteristics of Web 2.0 can be roughly matched with Stephen Covey's four fundamental human needs:
To live and love: Social networking
To learn: Collective intelligence
To leave legacies: User generated content (UGC)
New products from startups and entrepreneurs are advancing news aggregation beyond what Google News offers.
When Google News was launched four years ago, it did the one thing that newspapers refused to do, and that was link to other publications.
The product was a hit with the Web audience, since it offered an easy and surefire way of getting multiple angles on a story from several different publications.
This hasn't made newspapers very happy. Editors often bemoan that aggregators like Google News take traffic away from their sites...
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Another company has jumped on the user generated content bandwagon. "As part of an effort to incorporate more user-generated content in its news reports, CNN said Monday that it has created a Web site where viewers can send in video and audio clips pertaining to breaking news."
CNN Exchange ( www.cnn.com/exchange) will serve as the online center of the Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ) network's interaction with viewers and Web surfers, highlighting e-mails sent in response to news stories and providing links to blogs maintained by...
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