Comments on: Social media's future looks bright, apply sunscreen

Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs try to predict the future of the social-media business. It looks a lot like what we have now.

[GraemeThickins]

and the conference was?

Stef, you never said :-)

great recap of it, by the way -- better than having to travel there

cheers,
Graeme
www.tech-surf-blog.com

[hussein_fazal]

Social Network Advertising

Great Post. It will be interesting to see how advertising within social networking sites evolves. I have in fact, dedicated a blog to this topic, and invite you to have a look - www.socialadblog.com

Thanks,
Hussein Fazal
Co-Founder & CEO, AdParlor

[benjaminstraight]

benjamin straight writes: This is how we will communicate more in the future.

[pwoodford]

Good post, very into this, excellent for inspiration when working on our brandstation social network platform by viewmy.tv (www.brandstation.tv)

There's more inspiration i just discovered here www.icwsm.org/2009/index.shtml , like:
* Psychological, personality-based, sociological, or ethnographic studies of social media, or the relationship between social media and mainstream media.
* Analysis of patterns and/or spreading of influence between bloggers; tools for assessing trust and reputation; social network analysis (e.g.,community identification, expertise discovery, etc), as applied to social media; and analysis of trends and time series in social media.
* Methods for ranking bloggers and/or blogs by user relevance, or ranking web pages based on blogs; and techniques for crawling, spidering and indexing social media.
* Human-computer interaction studies of tools for using social media; novel ways of applying or interacting with social media; and visualization of social media or social networks.
* Application of computational linguistics to of social media (e.g. entity or fact extraction, discourse analysis, summarization, sentiment analysis, etc); probabilistic modeling of social media; and identification of demographic information (e.g., gender, age, etc) in social media.
* Semantic web approaches to managing socially constructed knowledge or collaborative creation of structured knowledge.