Archive for December, 2007

Scoble Should’ve Gone To Podcamp »

By Rob Safuto on Dec 13, 2007 in Social Media | 0 Comments

A little over a year ago I started a firestorm of controversy by blogging about a conversation taking place in the public forum for the PodCamp NYC organizer group over on Google Groups. Group organizer John Haven’s wanted opinions on whether or not they should dedicate funds to paying for Robert Scoble’s travel expenses [...]

XM Radio Podcasting »

By Rob Safuto on Dec 12, 2007 in Social Media | 0 Comments

I twittered about this earlier today. I think it’s a big deal that XM Radio has launched podcast channels. So far there are nine podcasts on the iTunes store from XM. This move into podcasting indicates two things.

XM is moving away from thinking of themselves as a satellite radio company and moving toward thinking of [...]

Some Week For The Social Web »

By Rob Safuto on Dec 8, 2007 in Analysis | 0 Comments

This has been an interesting week for the social web. There’s always lots of news to pick through but this week there were three items that I feel are quite telling as far as where we stand vis-a-vis ventures that aim to capitalize on the social web.
Facebook Is Not All Powerful
The controversy over privacy with [...]

PodShow Decline Continues »

By Rob Safuto on Dec 3, 2007 in Social Media | 0 Comments

By all accounts PodShow has always been the one to watch in the podcasting space. They started out by leveraging the audiences of some of the biggest stars in podcasting with Adam Curry and Dawn & Drew. They’ve even broken bigger shows like GeekBriefTV. Top it off with $24 million in funding, some good sized [...]

New Social Networks Don’t Need A Business Model »

By Rob Safuto on Dec 2, 2007 in Social Networks | 0 Comments

I’ve said before that I believe there will be millions of social networks on the web in the future. These networks may consist of just a few people up to thousands of people. If you think about it every family could have a social network. Every sports team could sprout a social network. Fans of [...]

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