RE: Recent updatesBoth websites to be launched in the next few weeks. Growing discontent with Ebay and the holiday shopping around the corner will propell these off to a great start. Trials run on Twitter and Facebook have returned a overwelming response to other options. A huge waiting list has formed with prospective customers waiting for the second week in November when its a go. A piece of Ebay's 32.5B marketcap will make this a monster play!
The social media are receiving widespread media coverage and the events in Iran have propelled Twitter right to forefront of people's attention. Social media developments are fascinating and exciting. They show the great potential of the new communication and information tools that are becoming available thanks to the Internet, Web 2.0, email and broadband infrastructure. However, for these new social media tools to succeed, they need to be fully and totally integrated into our daily communication.
Current social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, Google and Second Life are great incubators for these new services.