‘Social Media’ Archive

It Wasn’t Working for StumbleUpon and EBay April 13, 2009 No Comments

Simply put, it just wasn’t working.  Too many corporate strings attached to allow StumbleUpon to have the creative leverage they needed to make their service compete with the social media big boys.  So today, it was announced that the original investors of the company have opted to buy their shares back from EBay.  Simply put, [...]

Social Media Horse Race: Who’s Hot and Who’s Struggling April 8, 2009 No Comments

Everyone knows Twitter is hot right now (752% growth in 2008), especially with the recent rumors surrounding an acquisition, and all of the buzz in the press about their service.  So I decided to see how hot they really were (according to Compete) compared to Facebook, MySpace (the old dinosaur), Digg (who just keeps on [...]