What is the next trend in social media? Four to watch including a Twitter rival
What’s next in social media? Sometimes it feels very much like people can not see beyond Facebook and Twitter giving us a kind of tunnel vision. Robert Scoble gives his take on the companies that you might want to be watching out for naming Katango, Color and Path’s new app called ‘With’ as three to watch out for.
Interesting the fourth project he highlights is a possible Twitter competitor. He’s right when he says that Twitter needs a competitor, but taking on Twitter will be a tough one, but it looks like several are considering the challenge.
Writing on Quora Scoble says that we are already well into the next trend in social media. He says that is trying to build a better social graph. Here’s his companies to watch:
- Katango. This service, coming out this summer, looks at Facebook and finds interesting social circles in it. It is mind blowing. I wish I could say more, but we’ll have a video up soon on this one.
- Color. They are trying to find your social circles based on being in the same place as other people and taking some action (first one is taking photos together, like at a concert or a wedding). I know they are struggling right now, but what they are trying to do is interesting an example of this trend.
- Path’s new app called “With.” With is pretty cool. You take a photo with someone, tag them, tag where you took it, tag what you were doing. That data will be useful in future for building intimate social graphs and new kinds of experiences.
- A Twitter competitor? I also had a look at what Bill Gross [of UberMedia] is doing at IdeaLab. That’s one to watch too, he’s building the future of microblogging. Some will say it’s a Twitter competitor, but I really like his thinking and Twitter needs a competitor anyway — how many new features have we gotten in Twitter lately? Not many.
A Twitter rival is the one that will grab the headlines and there has been talk for a while about this. Reports emerged that UberMedia was working on a Twitter rival back in April after it lost out on a deal to buy TweetDeck to Twitter.
UberMedia, however, is not the only one looking to shake-up the microblogging market. Earlier this month we reported that Chinese Twitter rival Sina’s Weibo was preparing to launch its own very popular microblogging platform in the US shortly.
All Comments
Its true most brands think Twitter, Facebook and YouTube (tick!).
Check out how Habbo engages teens with brands in their social space.
http://pixelweekly.com/
Brands do seem to think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (tick!).
Check out how Habbo engages its teen audiences with brands in their social space.
Thanks!
http://pixelweekly.com/
Site: pixelweekly.com
Meh.
I think Instagram has already killed Color. With 5 million users, there’s no space for two photo micro-blogging platforms. The secret here is as much the social interaction as also delivering the ability to take stunning photos.
Simon
http://www.TwoCentsGroup.com.au
Zenergo.com is another one to take a look at. It’s based on and organized around your activities — golf, tennis, wine tasting, travel, volunteer organizations, art, family reunion; 300 activities to choose from. Segments your social life the way you do.
Juxtaposition is the next big thing. Two seemingly discordant items added to the same platform. Primarily language and video that play contrapuntally.
I’m sorry, but “With” is just a poor name for any app. Nobody wants to say “Hey, have you seen my ‘With’ page?” “What are you doing with your phone? I’m ‘Withing.’ You’re WHAT now?”
Have they not heard of http://JoinDiaspora.com then?
Good value. for my gratitude I would have to share with you this site giving away free twitter followers.
Appreciate it for sharing What is the next trend in social media? Four to watch including a Twitter rival | The Wall Blog with us keep update bro love your article about What is the next trend in social media? Four to watch including a Twitter rival | The Wall Blog .
Appreciate it for sharing What is the next trend in social media? Four to watch including a Twitter rival | The Wall Blog with us keep update bro love your article about What is the next trend in social media? Four to watch including a Twitter rival | The Wall Blog .
Regards for sharing What is the next trend in social media? Four to watch including a Twitter rival | The Wall Blog with us keep update bro love your article about What is the next trend in social media? Four to watch including a Twitter rival | The Wall Blog .
Interesting post, it seems mobile sharing will be next…is it the end of sharing from a computer?
Glad I looked back at this in my favourites folder, Gordon. The tips help we educators quite a bit. I think your community thrives on cutting-edge, latest release information. I’d also like to add my thanks for the slower adopters among your followers.
If you can keep in mind that the less IT capable among us manage to find these links well after the early adopters have moved on, these gastropod-folk will be just as grateful for your advice!
Keep at it. We’ll read in our own good time!
Cheers,
Damien.
[...] McMillan signaleert vier nieuwe trends in Social Medialand aan de hand van een antwoord op een directe vraag hierover [...]
[...] we will all see only a few a day. Show too many and then Twitter risks killing the golden goose and giving a leg up to those rivals we have been hearing about, which are waiting in the wings to take a slice of the microblogging market. Time will tell. [...]
[...] Competitors for Facebook and Twitter – is this what’s next? [...]