Buzzgain

“Dad , is social media similar to social studies, the subject we study at school?” quizzed my 7 year old trisha. Well social studies involves the study of the past and current human behaviour and social media or to be specific social media concepts helps in discovering and engaging with people who will help your [...]

Two good things crossed our blog reader today:

Thoughts and Highlights of the WOMMA Research Symposium and Summit 2007
WOMMA publishes influencer handbook – with help from our friend Sean O Driscoll

After nearly a year of work, 3 months in alpha and 3 more in private beta, BuzzGain is now open for Public Beta. Our first offering helps fearless “Do It Yourself-er’s” – PR agencies, companies and individuals to accelerate their PR efforts by leveraging the social web.
We have outlined a simple 5 step approach to [...]

Our advisor Louis Gray attended the Lifestreaming panel by MIT/Stanford where FriendFeed founder Brett Taylor presented in the session titled “Lifestreaming : The Real time web“.
There’s a very interesting statistic that Brett mentions in his presentation.

FriendFeed has stored over 100 million entries shared by FriendFeed users.

BuzzGain tracks about 82,353 (as of August 2008) users for [...]

Blog Relations Part 1 — Long Live the Blogroll

“Can you roll a blog for me daddy?” asked trisha quite out of the blue! I reckon she must have overheard my conversation with my colleague about the importance of blogroll! “Well Trisha, I can certainly explain to you what a blogroll is, but I cant physically [...]

Happy Wednesday. Here are the top 4 new features we have added to BuzzGain in the last 2 weeks. Based on the extensive feedback we got from our early users, we have fixed 2 of the 3 issues that were mentioned.
1. Easier to setup campaigns: Instead of just a simple text box where you entered [...]

The top 3 business publications in the US are Business Week, Fortune and Forbes.
A quick comparison of their circulation, unique visitors, online revenue and editorial staff is below. The interesting question raised by 247Wall Street is when do these publication die? Their models seem doomed if you consider cost of printing, editorial payroll costs and [...]