Sometimes Internet startups have a business model. Sometimes they don’t – and the story typically boils down to “we’ll figure it out” or “we’ll sell.” For consumer media and information services, more often than not “figure it out” means build a large enough audience to sell advertising around it. For platforms and tools, founders aspire […]
Social networking is the fastest-growing activity on the user-centric Internet. The idea is that most anyone can join a large, loosely connected network of “friends” to share personal or professional information, establish contacts, communicate, align social activities, establish a personality or brand, and vicariously act-out life online. You pass your profile to your friends, who […]
A long time ago we helped give We Media its name, so a lot of people ask why it’s taken so long to launch a blog about it. Others ask a more relevant question: Ah, why? I was thinking about those questions and the arrogance of blogging when the old joke, told by Woody Allen […]
WeMedia.com is the new home for the We Media conference, awards and community – and for news, analysis and community-organizing around the global We Media movement. We’re seeking to build a corps of correspondents and editors to provide reports, links and analysis on innovations and current events in media and communications around the world. Correspondents […]