Network Effects in Social Media
Amidst social networking giants such as Facebook and Twitter, in 2010 a new social media site, Pinterest, was launched and thus far has been very successful. Pinterest is a social media site that allows consumers to interact with friends and businesses through images that have been “pinned” to online bulletin boards. When a user pins […]
Search Engine Launches PageRank Killer
Recently SEO Engine, a search engine startup, released a new method of searching which dramatically shifts the way that web search queries are performed. This new technique called “The Neighborhood” allows users to influence the way that their webpages and links are scored. This new method displays results to the user using a web interface, […]
YouTube vs Vimeo
When considering network effects on new or alternative technologies one must ask, how does a new technology emerge and take over a market share? One prime example of this is the divide between Vimeo and YouTube. Vimeo began in 2004 as a way for filmmakers to share their works with the world online. YouTube began […]
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