http://sunbulli.com Social Media Bits Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:30:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's unfortunate Adonomics (Facebook Analytics site) doesn't have stats on user session times. I'm talking about Scrabulous (http://adonomics.com/about/3052170175). I agree with Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed on the market opportunity for these type of games. The impressions served, coupled with user session times on these apps' canvas pages, is some of the ... http://sunbulli.com/2007/12/07/asynchronous-gaming/ >10 million blogs launch every year; the vast majority of them barely update quickly disintegrating into the blogosphere. In hopes of not becoming another lost blog, I post now. Facebook's "social graph" experiment is in month 2 of operation, this since opening up their API to third party developers. I wasn't moved at ... http://sunbulli.com/2007/07/11/return-of-the-blogger-and-funding-the-social-graph/ Joe Anthony, former owner of Barack Obama's unofficial Myspace page, is a disgruntled online campaign volunteer. Get used to them. In our age of decentralized political campaigns (thanks to the web) controlling and satisfying every facet of a campaign from meetups to Myspaces is simply impossible. In the now widely reported ... http://sunbulli.com/2007/05/03/myspace-or-barackspace/ Casual online games are about as fickle and non-committal as you get. From the casual standard, solitaire, to the 1000's of flash games featuring fuzzy little critters on sites like Neopets, what makes these type of games so alluring is their stupid simplicity and the advance assurance that there is ... http://sunbulli.com/2007/04/23/casual-games-spawn-casual-universes-spawn-casual-existence/ Bloggers shoot high, and they either hit. Or miss... wildly. For the last 3 hours I've been trolling the web trying to debunk or confirm whether this VA Tech alumni was indeed the now dead culprit of today's VA Tech shooting spree. Of course all those guns and the fact that his ... http://sunbulli.com/2007/04/17/the-online-hunt-for-the-va-tech-killer/ With VA Tech students huddled in their dorms as the shootings persisted, it appears some students took to forming groups in support of the early victims and their families. Fellow university students from across the nation have written in with wall posts. It's fascinating to watch this type of online activity ... http://sunbulli.com/2007/04/16/facebook-support-groups-for-va-tech-students/ Readers are undoubtedly linking to CNN and Google News right now to find out more about the details. A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech today, killing 21 people. Of course my condolences go out to all the family members of the student victims. I'm watching ... http://sunbulli.com/2007/04/16/deadliest-shooting-in-us-school-history/ This goes beyond live streaming video. That's why it's called a lifecast. Or at least that's the term dubbed by Justin Kan, a recent Yale Grad who despite the seemingly frat boy spring break nature of his idea (expose your life 24/7! Then get trashed!) has a pretty interesting project ... http://sunbulli.com/2007/04/12/lifecasting-247-brought-to-you-by-justintv/ Fascinating that the NY Times of all publications would file a front page story in its Arts Section about the YouTube Awards. Yes, you know the same Arts spread dedicated to the off and occasionally off-off Broadway play, or that killer dance company full of "gaiety and disturbing mystery." Dance Company ... http://sunbulli.com/2007/03/27/youtube-awards-picked-up-by-ny-times/ New media bloggers are out in full force today. The issue? NBC Universal and News Corps' launch of an online video sharing service. In short, the networks' competitive response to YouTube. Sure the announcement is old news. What is new are the partnerships struck with portals like AOL, ... http://sunbulli.com/2007/03/26/its-the-engineering-dummy/