Great post and predictions for the way things are moving. The biggest questions I have now is WHO to choose to provide the services and tools you mentioned above. Seems like there has never been more choices or competition for any application which is great for those of us in the blogosphere and related fields. A comparison of companies would be awesome.
Adam Ostrow
· 1 year ago
stay tuned to Mashable, we'll try to keep you posted :) Actually, we've done some comparisons of the third-party commenting systems, perhaps could use some updating ...
Bloggeries
· 1 year ago
Most definitely will. I had never heard of many of the companies but was interested in all of them. I particularly like the ideas of universal profiles for the rating of content from all social media networks / forums / blogs on one platform.
Cheers,
Aaron Brazell
· 1 year ago
Great to see you again, Adam, and thanks for the Lijit mention. Outbrain, too, is a fantastic little service.
Brett
· 1 year ago
Excellent recap! Twitter has become such a powerful tool both online and off, and I wonder what the next micro-blogging tool will be. Zappos is an excellent example of listening to customer needs and how they react/respond to them. Plus, I love the direction that many cmpanies are moving towards in regards to creating their own ad networks.
Adam Zand
· 1 year ago
Umm, that's it? Guess this year was a bit more evolution, rather than revolution.
I'd love to see Scoble back up his point of "The best coverage was live Tweets and conversations on FriendFeed." That's rarely hard coverage - it's more of a "Where's Waldo" or pumping up you and your products or the useful - let's go out for drinks at the Mirage.
George Favvas, thanks for the tip about Southwest - I like the “blogospondent†video on the spot idea.
Adam Ostrow
· 1 year ago
check out the link next to that Scoble/Louis Gray dialogue ... lots of good discussion on Friendfeed (of course) about that claim. I'd agree that there wasn't anything especially revolutionary to come of it, but it was a good "state of the industry" event.
Nick Stamoulis
· 1 year ago
This looks like it was such a great event judging by everyone's recaps. Blogging definitely is not dead, it's simply changing!
Andrew Galasetti
· 1 year ago
I definitely fall in the crowd of bloggers who are turning their blogs and blog layouts into more of a media business. With my blog Lyved I fused the classic blog style that everyone is familiar with; with a magazine style layout. My categories are setup similar to here on Mashable. It just provides easier navigation for my readers and makes it more clean and professional.
I look forward to what the blogosphere will be like in the coming years.
-Andrew
Pete
· 1 year ago
Had to pop outta my feedreader to come say...awesome article! Really nice insights.
Jeff Woelker
· 1 year ago
To follow up on the success of Comcast on Twitter, I actually contacted @comcastcares and they put me in touch with their "Executive Customer Service Center" within 24 hours. A real person, yes, I said real called me and said "My name is Mrs. Gardner. How can we help you? What times are convenient for you? What can we do for you?" It was a little unsettling at first as NO company really caters to customers that way, but I soon discovered that everything was on the up and up and Comcast provided some GREAT customer service going above and beyond what I asked.
So don't just take Comcast's word for it, I lived it. Thank you Comcast and Twitter, Jeff
Adam Zand
· 1 year ago
Adam Ostrow, Thanks for sending me over to that FriendFeed discussion. I continue to think Scoble is faking it/mailing it in these days. For example is this true: "I don't get paid to go to conferences, when that starts maybe I'll start doing work at them. :-) - Robert Scoble"
Allan
· 1 year ago
I went to the first BWE last year and although it was unpolished, I had a lot of fun, met a ton of interesting people, and learned a lot. Was unfortunate I couldn't go this year. Would have loved to listen to some of the experts about this evolving space.
Lacy Kemp
· 1 year ago
Adam- The Twitter factor was pretty wild, I can vouch.. Wild in a "what's happening tonight" way, but really the best use was what was going on during the show. We were able to essentially participate in a ton of events at one time, just by following the events on Twitter. I really needed to attend certain sessions, but really wanted to attend others. I was able to get a ton of info from the feeds. I guess I'm embracing the geekiness of it all. It really did work wonders.
@George- I agree w/ your post. Zemanta was really cool, and something I plan to use and reference to others.
Cindy
· 1 year ago
Adam If that was the case on Twitter, why do you think only 40% or around that number of attendees of BWE were on twitter per our analytics?
The other trend we saw was the users attending BWE were more impressed with money making blogs than the ones that blogged for the fun of it. I for one did not think that would be obvious.
interesting ... 43% is still very impressive - very few services have that kind of penetration
Andrew Warner
· 1 year ago
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Adam Ostrow
· 1 year ago
good call on the flip cams ... not sure where that stuff is going either :-)
Scott
· 1 year ago
This was my 2nd Blogworld and I had a great time. What's next? It looks like lots and lots of comments and twitters. The web is speeding up and we want updates on everything every minute of the day. We're passing blog comments to Twitter and getting them duplicated on Facebook because of FriendFeed. We're building lists and lists of friends and followers on all the social networks and syndicating our every move online and off. If anything Blogworld gave us all a slap in the face about really how fast the internet is evolving.
Cindy
· 1 year ago
Adam Have to agree 43% is great, but its like preaching to the choir right? People who blog are more likely to be early adopters. So I would have expected a higher percentage.
Adam Ostrow
· 1 year ago
ah yes, the flip cams ... I also wonder where the heck all those videos ended up :)
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Cheers,
I'd love to see Scoble back up his point of "The best coverage was live Tweets and conversations on FriendFeed." That's rarely hard coverage - it's more of a "Where's Waldo" or pumping up you and your products or the useful - let's go out for drinks at the Mirage.
George Favvas, thanks for the tip about Southwest - I like the “blogospondent†video on the spot idea.
I look forward to what the blogosphere will be like in the coming years.
-Andrew
So don't just take Comcast's word for it, I lived it. Thank you Comcast and Twitter,
Jeff
Thanks for sending me over to that FriendFeed discussion. I continue to think Scoble is faking it/mailing it in these days. For example is this true: "I don't get paid to go to conferences, when that starts maybe I'll start doing work at them. :-) - Robert Scoble"
@George- I agree w/ your post. Zemanta was really cool, and something I plan to use and reference to others.
If that was the case on Twitter, why do you think only 40% or around that number of attendees of BWE were on twitter per our analytics?
The other trend we saw was the users attending BWE were more impressed with money making blogs than the ones that blogged for the fun of it. I for one did not think that would be obvious.
http://news.buzzgain.com/?p=51
Have to agree 43% is great, but its like preaching to the choir right? People who blog are more likely to be early adopters. So I would have expected a higher percentage.