Future of Media video

Your brand website is less relevant than ever before

Great post from The Viral Garden on why companies should monitor what consumers are saying about them.

The conversation (still) carries on....

I especially like the Alexa graph that shows the difference in traffic between the site where Jennifer Laycock posted about Panera Bread, and the Panera bread website:

The Zune, Widgetised

According to the New York Times, Microsoft

"is creating a social-networking site, Zune Social, to encourage the sharing of samples of songs online, even for fans who do not own a Zune player. Members of the network will also be able to use a small application on their computers to display which songs they have been listening to, and that information can be posted on certain Web sites outside the network or sent by e-mail to friends."

A bit like any number of existing web-based music applications, then.

Facebook: shifting mobile internet demographics?

From the Independent

...the rapidly growing popularity of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook is having a knock-on effect in the mobile sector. A spokesman for T-Mobile said six months ago the top 20 sites accessed on its network were predominantly news or adult pages and most of its users were males over 40. Yet today the most popular sites are social networking pages, triggering a demographic shift in its user base toward 20- to 30-year olds.

Do you Facebook from your mobile?

How should brands appear on facebook?

I've made a poll on facebook to ask that very question. Click on the image to see the poll results, and read about the background here.