So, it seems obvious that we should publish a tea collection. And – trombone please – here it is!

This so called Teabook is sponsored by allmyTea, a German website that allows you to mix and order your custom tea. The first page of the Teabook shows the seven basic tea ingredients, each collectible provides a brief description.

Get your own Teabook on Facebook or MySpace. Everyone completing the Teabook by July 31th, automatically participates when allmyTea is raffling off five “Luftige Erfrischung” teablends.

So, good luck and have fun!

Martin

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The biggest financial problem is that the supposedly new media economy of blogs and YouTube videos isn’t making the content creators much money. That’s because today’s digital technology has made almost all content free, thereby undermining media’s historically successful business model of selling content to consumers. [...] The greatest losers, then, in this great cultural transformation are our traditional creative class – professional musicians, journalists, film-makers, photographers and animators — who are now struggling to monetize their talent in an advertising saturated economy where all the serious cash is being channeled to technology providers like Google, YouTube and MySpace.

Yes, people are not willing to pay for content, because the content does not provide an added value to them! In the past, information was restricted. It provided a competitive advantage or it gave you social status. In the Internet age, information is available everywhere and everytime. Thus our old business models fail and companies that relied on these old business models will fail too! That’s economy. That’s evolution. Don’t blame technology for it!

I do not agree with Andrew Keen that the creative class is suffering from these changes. The opposite is true. Never in history there have been such possibilities for creative persons to show and to monetize their work without the need of large corporations. The Internet democratizes the media distribution. Thus more people will profit, but in less quantity. It’s bad for a few, but good for many.

I agree with Andrew Keen that technology providers like Google, YouTube and MySpace profit most from the new business paradigm, but only because the existing market players are not willing to invest in new market ideas. The media companies have to overcome their fear and to reconquer their markets. They know better how to serve the consumers’ needs than a technology provider like Google. They have the content that consumers are urging for, but they have to unclose their content.

So take the risks and have a good time!

Martin

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This morning the Irish Times reported that Facebook has confirmed its plans to establish one of its international headquarters in Dublin. The headquarters will be responsible for activities taking place within the company “across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.” Last week I wrote about Facebook hiring people in India, Hong Kong, Syndney, and the U.K.

Via Facebook Puts European Headquarters in Dublin

Europe is a diverse social network market and Germany in particular is a complicated one with strong competitors. If you want to succeed in Germany you have to open a headquarter in Germany. Take MySpace for example, they have a headquarter in Berlin, a very beautiful by the way.

So Facebook come to Germany! My suggestion for your headquarter is Munich – you will like it! And have a good time!

Martin

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1. Reactivated my Twitter account.
2. Installed Twype on my Desktop PC as well as on my Notebook to update Skype via Twitter.
3. Installed Twessenger do the same for Microsoft Live Messenger.
4. Registered for Hellotxt – a service that sends status messages to my accounts at Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn.
5. Installed the Twitter-Tools WordPress plug-in on this blog to include my status updates in the sidebar (see right side).

However, I did not found any solution to update my XING status too. Do you know a solution?

PS: The solution isn’t perfect. A perfect solution would be: I could update all my messengers, social networks etc. via Twitter, because there are a plenty of useful tools for Twitter, e.g. sending tweets from a Firefox plugin without browsing to twitter.com respectively hellotxt.com. However, I did not find any public solution …

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The latest stats from Nielsen Online show a significant decline in month-over-month unique visitors to Facebook in the US. In April, traffic fell to 22.4M uniques, down from the 24.9M reported in March. Year-over-year traffic growth decelerated from 98% to a much more modest 56%. MySpace also saw a modest decline (from 60.3M to 58.7M), while LinkedIn continued its torrid growth from 7.8M uniques in March to 8.6M in April.

Read on: Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April

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Within a few months, Myspace has quietly built an application platform with over twelve hundred applications. I previously posted a graph for Facebook app categories, in which I compared the categories using the number of active users. Unlike the older Facebook platform, Myspace only provides the number of installs:

Read on: Myspace/Facebook App Platforms & Total Installs – O’Reilly Radar

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Das soziale Netzwerk Facebook hat den erhofften Katapultstart in Deutschland mit der Einführung einer deutschen Sprachversion Anfang März nicht geschafft. Für das gesamte erste Quartal weist das Marktforschungsunternehmen Nielsen Online für Facebook lediglich 1,2 Millionen Besucher und damit 26 Prozent mehr als im Vorjahreszeitraum aus, als Facebook nur mit einer englischen Version vertreten war und außerhalb der Internet-Szene noch weitgehend unbekannt war.

Read on: Netzökonom : Facebook verpatzt den Deutschland-Start

Facebook vs. StudiVZ

To summarize the author’s point of view: Facebook’s growth in Q1 2008 in comparison to Q1 2007 is too slow (+25,6%) and the visitors count is still too low (1,2 million) to be a thread for the competitors like StudiVZ (growth: +18,9%; visitors: 6,0 million). However, from a customer’s point of view, Facebook is no competitor to StudiVZ. Most students I know (and I’m still a student) have a StudiVZ account and now get a Facebook account in addition, because in Facebook they can manage their international contacts and their contacts outside their students life.

Facebook vs. MySpace

However, MySpace is a competitor to Facebook – it’s global, it’s independent of education and it’s just for fun as it is Facebook. MySpace had (in Germany) 4,7 millions visitors in Q1 2008. In comparison to Q1 2007 this is a decrease of 8,9%!

Facebook vs. OpenSocial

From our point of view there is no alternative to Facebook. Facebook is the only vital platform-as-a-service provider in the consumer-related social network market. Of course, OpenSocial is also an option with great potential, but the actual situation is that there is no success story of an OpenSocial implementation, yet. And from my point of view, Google isn’t the right driver for this market. It reminds me of Microsoft trying to be the leading Internet company during the last years. Both, Microsoft and Google haven’t the appropriate corporate culture to be the innovative driver in the social network market.

Forecast vs. Reality

Maybe the future proves me wrong – or you do! Have a good time!

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Via Create Or Die

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• Microsoft Live Mesh
  
• Google AppEngine
  
• Amazon AWS
  
• Yahoo
• Facebook
• MySpace Apps
  

I don’t know and I don’t want to guess … you?

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As some of you may know I have been building web games for different social networks with some friends for the past few months. I have noticed a downward trend in revenue with apps and wanted to highlight it here. To generate a discussion, ideas and possible solutions:

Read on: The Money Problem with Facebook / MySpace / hi5 Apps – Noah Kagan’s Okdork.com

And a reference to an interesting slide show about social networks from Asia:

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