GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2021

Total funding to date for the 2-year-old company is $2.5 The company: The B2B startup builds tools for wedding planners, vendors, and couples getting married. Pandemic effect: With social distancing mandates in place for the past year, thousands of weddings were postponed as the market reached record-low numbers.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

The legal dispute dates back to 2015 when Cheryl Kater sued Big Fish’s then-parent company Churchill Downs. Several other lawsuits were filed in the wake of the federal appeals court decision, challenging the legality of social games in Washington. Founded in 2002, Big Fish has an additional office in Oakland, Calif.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Overall the themes seem to be pretty accurate, though the pace of some may have been a little off, and among other misses, the key theme of social polarization, while alluded to in ‘haves and have nots’ was not adequately on the map. What are your thoughts on how well I did at anticipating the decade just past? AUGMENTED HUMANS.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Scott Torrey stepped down as CEO of compensation data company Payscale. The company’s new CEO is Alex Hart. Founded in 2002, Payscale is majority-owned by private equity firm Francisco Partners. The company recently acquired CURO Compensation Ltd. The company is now remote-first and hiring in the Seattle region.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Here's my piece: Recent data shows Australians spend more time engaging with social media than any other nation. And yet few Australian companies have tapped the power of blogging and social media. After all, people’s expectations of companies have changed. Tags: Australia Social media.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 8, 2023

Second, Medium is a commercial company, having raised, according to CrunchBase , $163 million (so far). To my knowledge no company with such resources has started a public Mastodon instance to date. You know which ones aren’t dead from 2002? Williams also served as one of Twitter’s numerous CEOs. Gruber’s right about this.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Beyond her prolific goal-scoring career, Rapinoe is celebrated for her outspoken commitment to social justice causes including issues related to race, the LGBTQ community, equal pay for women and more. Laura Clise is founder and CEO of Intentionalist , a Seattle-based startup that promotes small companies.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 3, 2007

From the very beginning of the social networking space, with the launch of sixdegrees.com in 2000 (which gave up the ghost in January 2002), the fundamental underlying issue was whether social networks would be entirely exclusive and competitive, or whether they would in some way integrate to create a global social networking space.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

My first post on the Trends in Living Networks blog was on October 5, 2002, beginning: The emergence of the “living web”: In just the same way as the networks are coming to life, the language that we use to describe this new world is emerging and evolving. I just realized I missed my 10th anniversary of blogging.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2021

It’s a legal argument with parallels to those made by Facebook and other social networks about their own liability for content on their platforms. The move comes as a series of court rulings threaten to subject Amazon to greater liability for products sold on its platform, which could have vast financial implications for the company.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

» Lloyds TSB pilots social media Ross Dawson, February 26, 2008 7:30 PM US PT James Gardner, head of innovation at Lloyds TSB, writes consistently on his blog Bankervision , disclosing some of the key issues involved in innovating in a major bank. Some excerpts from his below show how blogging can change how corporations work.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 9, 2008

I wrote about proximity dating in my 2002 book Living Networks and on this blog in early 2003 , at the time referring to Imahima, an early player in this space in Japan. I see a parallel path to browser-based social networking. And it will help us meet new people for dating, business and friendship. Facebook dating status for a bar.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

I talked about how social media is unleashing our latent humanity, by providing us with new ways of interacting and relating. We are exploring and discovering who we become as individuals and a society through using the new tools of social media. MySpace is a specific manifestation of how young people’s attention is shifting.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 10, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application | Main | More media coverage of Enterprise 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 13, 2007

Yet social networking is not just about friends and personal networks. Applying social networks in the enterprise is a sweet spot that has massive potential value. Spoke had a unique model at the time, providing both social networking applications inside the enterprise, as well as a public version of their application.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 10, 2008

MySpace and Facebook are providing ways to open out users’ access to their data on those social networks. I wrote last year about how the dominant platform in technology is shifting to social networks , and the inexorable trend to openness in social networks. Permalink | View blog reactions Categories : Social networks , Web 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 12, 2006

I have no doubt that the analysis techniques used on this data were primarily network mapping, using software such as Netmap , which I described in an earlier article on social networks and intelligence applications. Searching for patterns in this data is a network analysis application, and the state of the art is pretty good now.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

. — Amazon is poised to transform a major swath of this city, much as the company reshaped Seattle during the past 15 years. Before the company opened its first office here, Amazon representatives met with City Council members to ask how the company could help. Amazon supports numerous causes and groups in Bellevue.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In my 2002 book Living Networks , the final chapter was on the future of a networked world. The full text of my 2002 prediction on transparency from Living Networks is here, with the full book chapter embedded at the bottom of the post. If they want, companies can now usually get a very good idea of their suppliers’ profitability.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Value is increasingly seen as shifting to social networks. Media – as in the flow of information – is increasingly between people rather than in a hub and spoke arrangement, which makes social networking platforms central to value creation. Social networking platforms have figured out what works. Microsoft, Yahoo!,

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 22, 2006

This squarely puts Microsoft into a space – enterprise social network software – that has previously been populated by Spoke , Visible Path , Contact Networks , and Tacit. Many organizations seem to think the enterprise social network software will provide an immediate solution, and many have stumbled already in applying these tools.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2005

However social network analysis has been applied by intelligence agencies and law enforcement for decades. Interestingly, two Australian software companies are world leaders in applying social network analysis in these domains. This is a field set for massive growth.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 21, 2006

Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. The fundamental problem is in the way Australian mobile companies set up charges for data downloads compared with the US where most plans are based on on unlimited data downloads. "The

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 28, 2007

It’s another issue to uncover which are the most relevant social networks for your professional life, and to use these effectively. As such, it often makes sense to belong to specialist social networks. There is no doubt that more, and more effective, social networks for specific groups are going to flourish.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Many companies will take advantage of the downturn to use technology in innovative ways. Social change tends to be faster in a downturn. Our attitudes to what is acceptable behavior by the government and companies will rapidly evolve. Companies become social. More major media companies could fall in 2009.

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GeekWire

JULY 22, 2020

He previously led youth-sports platform Sports Illustrated Play, which was acquired by Comcast/NBC, and was an exec at social gaming pioneer Zynga. She was most recently an associate partner at McKinsey and Company. She is the former CEO of Safeco Insurance and energy services companies AGL Resources and Duke Energy.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Slashdot is a social news website that originally billed itself as “News for Nerds. TechCrunch. The State of Security.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Slashdot is a social news website that originally billed itself as “News for Nerds. TechCrunch. The State of Security.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2007

Permalink | View blog reactions | Comments (2) Categories : Social trends Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook 2 Comments Keith De La Rue said: Interesting read. And of course, please don’t take this too seriously :-). Glad to see that you recognise the global importance of Philip K.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 22, 2008

Free download of entire book Ross Dawson, April 22, 2008 4:42 AM US PT Living Networks has just been relaunched in an Anniversary Edition, to mark five years since its original publication by Financial Times/ Prentice Hall in November 2002. The first words of Living Networks were about how companies were using blogs.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 22, 2008

The opening words of Living Networks were “Macromedia, the company best known for Flash software, is blogging.” In 2002 companies were already using blogs to communicate more effectively with their customers. Today the soaring growth of social networks means these kinds of encounters are happening far more frequently.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 31, 2007

companies and applications are mapped out across two major dimensions: Content Sharing to Recommendations/ Filtering ; and Web Application to Social Network. Recently commented on The Future of Sales is Social (the rise of social CRM) (3) Brian Vellmure (@CRMStrategies) wrote:Ross,Good stuff as always.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 13, 2010

What we knew as media has exploded far beyond its traditional boundaries to encompass most social activity, how organizations function, and indeed the creation of almost all economic value. Every business and social activity is a form of media. Our social lives are manifestations of media. Social News Curation.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 28, 2008

Moreover, the educational and social structures required to support them are dramatically different to those that support the creation of an industrial and manufacturing powerhouse. Among other activities, it actively encourages interactive media companies, gaming ventures, and content development.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 1, 2020

Let’s start the story when I began working at my first proper job, for NCR, at the time one of the world’s largest computer companies. I’ve always been a social animal, and initially I invited people over. So a bit of a business model there, but it was just this beginning of the shift of social life.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Slashdot is a social news website that originally billed itself as “News for Nerds. TechCrunch. The State of Security.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 7, 2008

It is becoming essential for companies to work closely with their customers, suppliers, and partners, however this involves very real risks. The example I used of Corporate Executive Board as a listed company that creates value from and for its network of corporate members still stands out today.

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