Comments on: Social media and the dream of going mainstream. http://colinwalker.me.uk/2008/04/social-media-and-the-dream-of-going-mainstream/ Social media and the web Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark Dykeman http://colinwalker.me.uk/2008/04/social-media-and-the-dream-of-going-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Mark Dykeman Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:11:19 +0000 http://colinwalker.me.uk/?p=82#comment-85 There are times that I think that someday we'll all be thanking Guy Kawasaki for creating Alltop because it will bring new eyes to blogs. That is something else that could bring all of this into the mainstream. Another valid point, of course, is that not only are some people not interested in communicating or creating, they also don't have the time. There are times that I think that someday we’ll all be thanking Guy Kawasaki for creating Alltop because it will bring new eyes to blogs. That is something else that could bring all of this into the mainstream.

Another valid point, of course, is that not only are some people not interested in communicating or creating, they also don’t have the time.

]]> By: Colin http://colinwalker.me.uk/2008/04/social-media-and-the-dream-of-going-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Colin Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:59:43 +0000 http://colinwalker.me.uk/?p=82#comment-84 The paradigm shift will be the use of social media by big business as a point of entry and then the subsequent use by their customers - it's just that people won't know it as social media. The paradigm shift will be the use of social media by big business as a point of entry and then the subsequent use by their customers – it’s just that people won’t know it as social media.

]]> By: Rob D http://colinwalker.me.uk/2008/04/social-media-and-the-dream-of-going-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Rob D Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:52:59 +0000 http://colinwalker.me.uk/?p=82#comment-83 Well, adoption can't be forced as most people will run away from that. Waiting will only get social media so far as well. I think that Yahoo Buzz will eventually turn some people onto social media. It has the Yahoo brand behind it and the Yahoo traffic. If that doesn't work, then we are looking at some sort of paradigm shift or major innovative service to really shake things up. For a while I thought Twitter (and services like it) would be the big hit, but the fact that all conversations are public makes it somewhat problematic. IM owns that space, and twitter has not innovated enough there to really change that. Last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RegularGeek/~3/278979611/">YackTrack, Tracking Distributed Conversations</a> Well, adoption can’t be forced as most people will run away from that. Waiting will only get social media so far as well. I think that Yahoo Buzz will eventually turn some people onto social media. It has the Yahoo brand behind it and the Yahoo traffic.

If that doesn’t work, then we are looking at some sort of paradigm shift or major innovative service to really shake things up. For a while I thought Twitter (and services like it) would be the big hit, but the fact that all conversations are public makes it somewhat problematic. IM owns that space, and twitter has not innovated enough there to really change that.

Last blog post..YackTrack, Tracking Distributed Conversations

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