Saw this New Media Family List on Amy Webb’s MyDigiMedia blog and thought it was pretty cool. Highlights from her post, where you can download a bigger PDF file and take a closer look:
In the six months since I first created the chart, there are a handful of notable updates:
AOL’s list has grown tremendously, while Google, News Corp and IAC have remained relatively unchanged. AOL is heading strong into behavioral targeting and various ad network options. Yahoo’s buy early and large strategy toned down considerably in Q3 and Q4 of 2007. Google’s last acquisition was Postini early last fall. Though I’m not tracking this on the chart, News Corp has also been selling lots of assets - namely local television stations.
Here’s the new Who Owns What page at mydigimedia. Download the new chart (PDF) here. And if you want to read my original post and learn more about why I started tracking all this to begin with, have a look here.
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Alberobello, il paese dei trulli!, originally uploaded by mery mellivora.
In this picture I found on Flickr’s photo feed by Mery Mellivora you can see how the old round, coned Trulli houses blend with modern homes in Alberbello. There is a historic strip of Trulli lined with excellent restaurants.
I rang in the new year 2008 at Martin Franca. For great wood-oven baked pizza, check out Al Dolce Morso at via Giannone 3 in Centro Storico (the walled historic part of the city lined with white stoned streets).  If you go, check out the killer antique furnature store Bruni Arte.
Lots of talk about Microsoft’s $44.6 Billion bid for Yahoo! Most of it focuses on search and online advertising. But I bet we’ll start hearing more about the social computing value of Yahoo! and how its people have been excerising their brains and buying plug and play social media assets for many years now. Flickr, Upcoming and del.icio.us are a few names in teh Yahoo! family of aquisitions. These tools help people interconnect their online activities form photo sharing to bookmarking articles to managing their calendar of fun community activities.
In a Forrester Research blog post by Jeremiah Owyang on this subject, I really liked this pearl of wisdom about the future of media companies:
A new definition of media. My colleague Charlene Li has written before about the transformation media companies are undertaking due to the rise of social computing. As syndication replaces aggregation, a media company becomes one which assembles an audience, not necessarily a firm which creates content (think Facebook v. CNN). In light of this acquisition, I’d add one more dimension to this observation. With Yahoo gone, the two remaining online media powerhouses: Google and Microsoft are both technology companies. These are firms who specialize in creating tools and innovations to facilitate the user experience of the Web and marketer access to customer data. I think this acquisition signals for both marketers and media firms that the trend of Left Brain Marketing – a data-driven approach to marketing – is irrevocably changing who we call a media firm. Tomorrow’s media companies are technology innovators who can connect audiences with marketing messages, not content creators.
Here’s Charlene Li’s Growndswell take on the bid.
This is a cool, trippy, Orwellian or Brazil-like music video from Bjork I saw on Cindy B’s Pownce site. I first heard Bjork in my musical depths of college at Chico, where I loved Bob Marley, Bauhaus, Sister’s of Mercy, U2, Cure, Mazzy Star, Clash, Circle Jerks, This Mortal Coil, Pixies, NWA, Public Enemy, P-Funk, Digital Underground, PIL… and yes, even The Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd.
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A Twitter king gets interviewed by Shel Israel. That’s the gracious, observant Shashi Bellamkonda.
The very fact that Network Solutions realized that they need a social media person is a positive step toward joining the conversation. We got over the first milestone–getting people inside the company to understand the challenges and the power of social media presence. I have been part of discussions to open new ways for customer communication (blogs, forums).
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I saw this posted in Facebook from Social Media measurement guru Katie Paine. This will.i.am music video is a great example of an artist being inspired to create, share and connect with his friends to mash media, skills and passion together into an expression of the times. Here’s how the video is described by drsmarty08.
According to will.i.am, founding member and frontman of Black Eyed Peas, the “Yes We Can Song” was inspired by Senator Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and especially the speech Obama gave following the New Hampshire primary. He states, “It made me reflect on the freedoms I have, going to school where I went to school, and the people that came before Obama like Martin Luther King, presidents like Abraham Lincoln that paved the way for me. . . .” Dylan says, “The speech was inspiring about making change in America and I believe what it says and I hope everybody votes.”
The music video includes excerpts from Obama’s speech and appearances from several celebrities: Scarlett Johansson, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Kate Walsh, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Adam Rodriquez, Kelly Hu, Adam Rodriquez, Amber Valetta, and Nick Cannon. “I’m blown away by how many people wanted to come and be a part of it in a short amount of time. It was all out of love and hope for change and really representing America and looking at the world,” will.i.am said.
We have been using Communispace as a social media tool for a few years and now we’re taking steps in mainstream social media.
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