However, over a quarter felt the site’s picture-based sharing style is something truly different and new, while another 15 percent felt the company hasn’t created anything innovative or new. The takeaway… Read more »
Facebook, with its network-effect-driven scale, dominates the social media landscape. LinkedIn and Twitter follow at a distant second and third. This market will continue to be defined by these dynamics for… Read more »
I’m with Om, Path is no Instagram. I’m a fan of niche social networks, but Path feels like it’s going to stay niche. In real life, users belong to different circles… Read more »
Half of the respondents to GigaOM Research’s 2012 reader survey on Pinterest said the company should experiment but not at the expense of the user experience. Another 34 percent said it… Read more »
The majority of respondents to a GigaOM Research survey (65 percent) felt Pinterest would start to see a greater share of men in the future, but that overall the site will… Read more »
Tagged, which claims to have 10 million active users for its social network that’s aimed at meeting new people rather than connecting with existing friends, announced it was acquiring another social… Read more »
I’m a fan of niche social networks, and I concede that Facebook apps can often benefit from having their own site. But I still think the newly launched neighborhood social network,… Read more »
It has been a magical few months for Instagram, a mobile photo-sharing startup. It has grown from nothing to more than 3.2 million users, and raised $7 million in funding. In… Read more »
Some saw Facebook’s upgrade to its Comments service as the next big extension of its network platform outside its own site, akin to Likes or Connect. That’s certainly what Facebook is… Read more »