Events Market Research Social MediaI really enjoyed participating in OCE Discovery (Canada’s largest innovation conference). Some of our most exciting companies (500px, Interaxon) are in Canada. I’ve attached below the video and slide deck on Market Research for Entrepreneurs and Other Cheapskates.

Monday, 04/4/11 at 6:00pm: Innovation in Private Company Liquidity: Online M&A, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO. was honored to be asked, and we’ve now launched our organization and are accepting applications from early-stage companies seeking funding. RSVP: [link]. Daniel L.

Data analytics : As part of a larger trend of " Big Data " (see our portfolio company InfoChimps ), consumers and financial institutions alike are looking for tools to leverage every kind of available data — from real-time financials to social media — for capital cost savings and competitive advantage.

Social media or “word-of-mouth” channels like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and others get your app out to literally millions of people within months or even weeks. Originally written on 1.3.12. We also observed another common characteristic or trend in apps/services that got early, rapid traction. without damaging lash back.

A very nice ABC tv segment on Practically Green: Boston Digital media Portfolio

Boston Digital media PortfolioYesterday Clovr made two big announcements. First, the company announced a change of name to Linkable Networks and second, a strategic investment from Citi Ventures. We are thrilled to welcome Citi to the investor group alongside terrific investors, Kepha Partners and Bain Capital Ventures.

Our “instant on” media has an insatiable appetite for the scintillating story. It is reassuring to see the press take a more modulated view of the swine-flu risks, especially as it becomes clear that both deaths and incidents have been overstated in the past week. Green Uncategorized Mexico Swine Flu

Internet online video Uncategorized Venture Capital video Media New MediaI recently spoke at AlwaysOn’s OnHollywood conference on the subject of today’s extremely dynamic online/Internet video world. Things are moving so amazingly fast that its extremely hard to predict specific outcomes.

The best performing sectors were Digital Media (+8.5%), thanks to strong earnings from Adobe, and Operating Systems (+7.8%), due to continued strength at RedHat. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. Database.

There was one Internet related IPO in February, online auctioneer Liquidity Services and the only M&A deal completed was Liberty Medias acquisition of Provide Commerce. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A.

For example, it’s not hard to imagine the major media companies offering persistent search services or “channels” to consumers for their favorite actor, author, or singer. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A.

They have a number of important advantages over traditional magnetic media including dramatically faster file access times and the ability to process far more I/O operations per second. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs.

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Early stage firms start doing late stage deals, technology firms start doing media deals, Austin firms start doing Dallas deals, etc. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. Software IPOs. Software M&A. Database.

Comment : Formerly known as QXL and a serious competitor to EBAY in Eastern Europe, QXLs stock was supported by takeover rumors all year, which turned out to be true in December when South African media group Naspers announced a deal to acquire it. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll.

If its acquired by Microsoft, that will leave only two Internet media/search acquirors with the ability to easily do sub $1BN deals. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. Software IPOs. Software M&A. Database.

am the current Category Expert for Audis , Digital Media Players and NAS Drives. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. Software IPOs. Software M&A. Search This Blog. Subscribe to This Blog. RSS/ATOM Feed. Blogs.

widely discussed in the media so far: Madoff’s investment firm was not a hedge fund, it was what’s called a. Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. Software IPOs. Software M&A. Search This Blog. profits.  This

  The maker of Roxio and other branded digital media software soared in 2009 after being down -83.1% Burnhams Beat. Articles on Technology and Finance. About Bill. Archived Posts. Blog Roll. IPO/M&A Lists. By Category. By Month. Recent Posts. Internet IPOs. Internet M&A. Software IPOs. Software M&A. Search This Blog. RSS/ATOM Feed.

For example , John Hagel has argued that integration of content with distribution, in the media world, does not work very well. think the reason American Apparel works is because we are able integrate manufacturing and retail very closely." And more here from Peter Klein. Is this vertical integration

This should be the area that traditional media companies would move into, if they had any sense." - Stowe Boyd , Jan, 2, 2007 Right on. "Someone will successfully fuse social networking and online advertising. But no one has cracked the code yet, except for the mega-sites like MySpace and Yahoo. advertising

Over time, I think that we will find that online ad-based consumer insights will be more valuable than the media that we use to deliver the ad and capture the insights. This can help them reach consumers in places that are not apparent to them right now, thus opening up underdeveloped inventory. Advertising = data. data advertising

Audience and user segmentation, I believe, is the key to unlocking value from community driven publishing and media models and businesses. The ability to segment, in turn, requires a discrete level of correlated user, usage, media and context data. Amazingly insightful. segmentation data advertising yahoo

This corresponds to the first phase of a new form of media: that of a new way to do old things. [M] etabrain [E] ntry [L] og : So far we've predominantly been discovering better ways of representing standard course materials on webpages. Cell phones are like landlines without cords." In the meantime, take a peek at Carmun. It's a web 2.0

YouTube for more streaming moving images media. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Feb 16, 2007. Why Carmun? Over the past five years, Ive seen an abundance of web-based innovation centered around structuring data and different data-types. iTunes and Last. fm to manipulate digital sound data.

Anystream : their "Apreso" product line allows for the capture of university-specific rich media content, and then making that content digital. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Feb 21, 2007. Top 10 innovative educational technology services. So here goes: 10. Very exciting. at 9:17 AM.

In reading the recent Piper Jaffray Internet Advertising report, I was struck by what the report lists as trend number three in the "Media World Order:" Indeed, I think the implications of this concept are greater than as relates to a strict definition of the media world. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Mar 4, 2007.

Great definition: "Open data is to media what open source is to technology. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Apr 24, 2007. What does open mean? Open data is an approach to content creation that explicitly recognizes the value of implicit user data. Seth Goldstein. at 2:52 PM. Newer Post.

Faster, cheaper bandwidth has allowed the promise of streaming media to be finally realized, which has provided numerous wonderful services to proliferate. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. May 21, 2007. POTS -- Plain Old Text (sites, services). Atif is right. Such as digitizing it. Tweet.

Media companies, as Roger Ehrenberg points out , are and have to move to this focal point. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jun 11, 2007. Half of the ad network story. My friends at Lotame processed their one billionth ad transaction this weekend and will quickly double that. at 10:26 AM.

All businesses are media businesses, because whatever else they do, all businesses rely on the managing of information for two audiences — employees and the world. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jun 22, 2007. Restructuring Education. via Mark Oehlert ). emphasis mine). at 12:05 PM.

Who Participates in Social Media. Tags: social media , web services. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jun 28, 2007. For example. Suggesting, quite naturally, that maybe the user-content shift is deeper, and wider, than had previously been thought. at 8:56 PM. Newer Post. Older Post.

Deadliest Catch Media Distribution. But in chatting about this with Robert , and in recounting the Discovery tv series, Deadliest Catch , we realized that, as with all thoughtful forms of media, that show proposes a much better method of distribution that is consistent with the decentralized nature of media platforms today.

Advertising on social media. So what about targeted ads that are designed, through their attributes, to reinforce the dynamism of social media? Ads that are delivered based on activities (and conversations, as John says) that are occurring within specific social media. Tags: advertising , social media. aweissman.com.

Personally, I think this is a much more interesting deal than Yahoos acquisition of Right Media, Microsofts purchase of aQuantive , and Googles buy of Doubleclick , because I believe advanced targeting, particularly as it relates to social media, is the biggest growth opportunity in online advertising. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Education, advertising, social media are just a few of the areas where many of these opportunities exist. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Sep 11, 2007. Its like a library, except everyone is talking. Carmun (of which I am a founder, etc.) is getting set to launch v2.0 at 3:10 PM. Tweet.

Media consumption with variable pricing based on the profile (and time of that profile) of the buyer. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 3, 2007. Amie St is the future. Ive been aware of Amie St for a while now -- heard the buzz, checked out the service a few times. Still rising. Utterly.

New York Times : "Last year, Nike spent just 33 percent of its $678 million United States advertising budget on ads with television networks and other traditional media companies. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 14, 2007. Secular Advertising Shift. at 4:36 PM. comments: Post a Comment.

When you take away the distribution problem, media reduces to a information relationship problem. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 22, 2007. Radiohead, freedom, artistry. And Radiohead , not a music label, can decide when, where and how it wants to release its next album. at 9:07 AM.

Looks like this is the fruit of the earlier Fox Interactive Media acquisition of Strategic Data Corp. This has the potential to be much more interesting than the much heralded deals involving aQuantive, Doubleclick, Right Media, etc., skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Nov 5, 2007.

Media Physics. Ian Rogers of Yahoo and elsewhere writes that that scale of the web creates media opportunity through the creation of : ". Value - and creativity - come from different places now -- from the outside of where they traditionally have in media. Tags: music , social media. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tweet.

Its Fox Interactive Media unit, which is basically MySpace, generated $233 million in sales last quarter, up 86% y/y and up 24% from the previous quarter. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Feb 7, 2008. MySpace scaling revenues. MySpace is finally making some headway selling ads. at 9:19 AM.

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Mar 14, 2007. Open Data 2007. The Open Data 2007 session yesterday at Reuters, organized in part by Seth Goldstein , was interesting, as others have reported. And, that the extent of the use of cookies in online advertising was surely not new news. To let me know?

Hope hope hope (and help help help it become a reality) that at the end of the year Topspin Media and Hypemachine are the two leading companies in the music world, because what they are doing is right, and more importantly their respective proprietors are righteous. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Dec 31, 2008. Things to Do.

By this is mean that if you are pitching a start-up for selling audio cds to someone who has never heard about them then it is not an issue to have 10 slides in ten minutes with a picture breakdown of the CD media. Allens Blog. « Commandment #6: Explain Your New Idea by Analogy To, or Contrast With, Old Ideas | Main. know, I know….sounds

perhaps less promising than these esteemed stellar approaches, we could read pundits in the media "great wasteland", attend. corporate documents, PDF for multi-media content, Comcast. Allens Blog. « Commandment #9: Be Like Goldilocks | Main. | "Managing" Your Board of Directors » April 03, 2005. There are others, as well.

The argument typically goes like this: a titanic battle over the future of the web is shaping up among the major “new media” companies: Google , Yahoo! allensblog. Thoughts from a startup sherpa. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « The Problem of the Forgotten Founder | Main. Fidelity vs. Convenience » January 22, 2006. Comments.

Recently, I’ve been considering investment opportunities in entertainment media (as part of some broader thinking about how brand advertising (as opposed to performance-based advertising) will move online). Their laptops serve as their media centers. Finally, there are other media types or experiences (e.g., Allens Blog. link].

Trading Stock for Media Exposure Expands Business without Financing and Promotes Marketplace Efficiency. www.services4stock.com) has set out to help emerging businesses succeed and grow without the need to acquire additional financing to cover the costs of media exposure and other needed services. allensblog. Archives. Profile.

MSN), in video games (Xbox and game software), media tools, the home network, mobile, etc., no good reason for msft to make specific money on IE or windows media player, or for google to charge for blogger or picasa. Allens Blog. « Clothes (Online) Make the Man | Main. May 20, 2007. Too Much of a Good Thing.? Same for Google ?

MSN), in video games (Xbox and game software), media tools, the home network, mobile, etc., no good reason for msft to make specific money on IE or windows media player, or for google to charge for blogger or picasa. allensblog. Thoughts from a startup sherpa. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Clothes (Online) Make the Man | Main.

Because of my longstanding interest in, and experience with, internet and new media companies, I was approached by a group of stockholders of the New York Times Company to see if I would agree to become a nominee, on their behalf, for the Board of Directors of the NYT - and Ive agreed. allensblog. Thoughts from a startup sherpa. Archives.

The issue is the difficulty of finding a third-party content management system (CMS) that is adequately flexible and scales with the success of the business -- in all dimensions: traffic, media file types available on the site, content distribution, etc. allensblog. Thoughts from a startup sherpa. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. Reblog (0).

story today in the FT reminded me of a conversation I'd had with a friend who is the head of a media buying agency a few weeks ago about how Facebook (and maybe Twitter) are becoming "dumb pipes" (more charitably, "platforms").   allensblog. Thoughts from a startup sherpa. Archives. Profile. Subscribe.

Media that is highly and fundamentally interactive (e.g., Facebook pages, Tweets -- and most "communications media" such as email and other messaging media (e.g.,   Hence the well-documented slide in eCPM's for (especially) display ads on social media sites.  allensblog. Thoughts from a startup sherpa.

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The main reason for this is that correctly or incorrectly, the web is still largely seen as a media vehicle and so ‘eyeballs’ are still valued very highly. While there are many examples of startup entrepreneurs selling dominant websites for a gazillion dollars. less known fact is that small, or even micro websites can be sold.

entrepreneurship Advertising business change distruption entrepreneurs marketing media public speaking startups technologyHere’s a talk I did for the Arts Australia Council Marketing Conference. I apologise for making up the word ‘decomplexify’ during the talk. My mouth was moving faster than my brain at that stage).

Jacco vanderKooij’s webinar on social media for sales points out (amongst many other things) that video makes a good sales tool: you can show videos interspersed with your presentation on your iPad. It’s becoming increasingly clear that one of the best ways to get and maintain customer engagement is through video.

Marketing PR Reaching Goals SEO Social Media Strategy sales Social Media technologyEvery day, there seems to be some kind of new technology or app out there to help you run your business. This one will increase productivity. That one will help your customers find your business online. Yet, another one will help you save time and money.

Om Malik : “Today when I heard about Salesforce buying Buddy Media for $800 million, I tweeted that perhaps that would be the end of venture capitalists saying that it isn’t prudent to fund married couples. Michael & Kass Lazerow, co-founders of Buddy Media. courtenaybird : So you think couples are a bad investment?

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Folks in the local media business have taken a lot of criticism over the last decade for failing to modernize their businesses -- more or less for focusing on revenue and not on new business models. But here's what's a bit horrifying for technology folks -- critics at local media companies may just be correct to ignore group purchasing.

had a conversation recently about the current social media phase we are in with startups. Twitter has not graduated to mainstream usage, although every major media outlet mentions Twitter in an attempt to relate to younger audiences. Apple Facebook Hyperlocal Social Media TwitterFacebook has been a no-brainer for a long time.

As stale as Twitter may look these days, it's all over mass media and it remains the best way for average people to keep up with their favorite celebrities. Facebook Google Location Based Services Real Time Data Social Media TwitterWe're all captivated by bright, shiny new things. more or less to a single company -- Apple.

Real Time Data Social Media TwitterSorry we've been so quiet lately - have been hard at work taking a product to the marketplace. We are jumping into the big social data business feet first. You can sign up for our private beta at [link]. I encourage you to check it out. Content Data Mining Enterprise Web 2.0 Facebook Government 2.0

Amazon Apple Facebook Google Location Based Services Real Time Data Social Commerce Social Media Twitter YahooI suppose we are three years into the boom of this cycle in tech, and 2011 has finally given us a few IPOs -- Groupon, Zynga, Pandora, Angie's List, and LinkedIn. Some startups like Gowalla have hit the deadpool. Can they screw up?

Social media, location services, smartphones, tablets, local/SMB services, and other sectors are getting turned on their heads a bit -- and the uncertainty/disruption creates opportunity for investors. Amazon Apple Facebook Google Real Time Data Social Commerce Social Media TwitterIf not, you're a failure. That's easier said than done.

News media has always been an interest to me going back to my time as sports editor of my high school newspaper, The Northwestern , in 1991. So I have a professional curiousity about local media that I can't quite shake, even if it isn't the best business decision. Mashable is doing the job today in the tech/social media space.

Data Mining Facebook Real Time Data Social MediaFebruary 8th was a watershed day in the US Presidential campaign of Rick Santorum. The Pennsylvania conservative picked up a sweep of somewhat unexpected wins in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri. Romney went on the offensive, launching attacks against his Republican rival weeks after the event.

Customer Surveys To gain insights about existing customer behavior we started with a survey which asked basic questions about social media usage, location based check-ins, and technology based socialization. We were excited to get the app downloaded and tested by as many people as possible.

Can you explain product attributes in text or do you need photos or other media? by Julia Kastner For my field course project, I wanted to test a set of hypothesis around customer preferences. m launching a women’s jeans company, Kismet Denim, making better-fitting jeans for sophisticated women using Fair Trade and Organic materials.

As they evolve into a new media business, the marriage of relevant content and personal interest is the key driver for Twitter’s future growth. tech media personalization content discovery Twitter monetization social media social networks“i believe the bigger a network gets the tougher it becomes to monetize……i.e. Agree 100%.

I tried out Twitter’s newly rolled out Discovery tab to see if it could do as good a job as Knowaboutit or News.me (two social media automated curation / content discovery newsletters that I had been recently using). They will try their darnest to make it work because they see themselves as a media company. Do they even know yet?

And guess what, that same IM client is now giving you social media feeds! Twitter has decided that they are a media company and will continue down that path, and I would not be surprised if DM’s or protected twitter accounts go away in a couple of years. Social media Social network Instant messaging Twitter email

While in startups and small business we are responsible for, well everything from customer complaints, to invoicing, to media interviews. I’ve spent a significant amount of time in both small business and big business environments. And the over riding conclusion I’ve come to is this: Big Business is about the small picture.

Ideally that strategy will be equal parts word-of-mouth, social media tactics, and constant feedback. Social Media Tactics – I am a big believer of social media.  Instead, I used social media and email lists to reach out to people I personally knew to get them to join the tours.  Got dumplings? 

We at NextView have been thinking about and looking for investments in seed-stage startups which leverage the megatrend of transitioning computing away from a standard fixed-web PC world.  Of course that includes “mobile-first” applications and companies which ride the adoption of tablet devices (more on those in upcoming posts).  Inherently social.

Social media and constituency communications are obviously important and speak to the future of more collaborative, transparent, and inclusive government. tech government social media digital divide US government cloud Internet access

Part 2 of this article will look at Social Media and Marketing applications. The Alien Entrepreneur. Im addicted to entrepreneurship, currently participating in multiple startups. love public speaking, flying, electronic music, restoring a 71 MGB, and all things related to technology. CTO at ProspectStream , ScopiaRx , and SaaS Capital.

Also, to those that thought I am part of some media conspiracy hell bent on destroying hacker culture, I applaud you for your keen insight and astute observation.  Nor would many hackers, and the community has striven hard to overcome much of the negative reporting in the media over the past couple of decades. 

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There are several good reasons for the announcements and taken altogether make the effort worthwhile and valuable for startups: Free Press – There are few times that startups get much earned media.  startups funding investors media press funding announcementsThat is the gist of many opinions on the topic of funding announcements. 

Social media connected us to a massive network of trusted opinions and information.  advertising branding marketing messaging product reviews social media tech transparency trusted opinions viral Business Search engine optimizationOn Monday, I was at New York Entrepreneur Week speaking on a panel about the Future of Tech. 

No longer are the tech media putdowns that enterprise tech is boring warranted. Another important step however is to connect that burgeoning community to like-minded investors, mentors, companies, and media to help support early stage enterprise tech startups, particularly in places like NYC and DC. Well guess what?

The staggering pace of growth in social media shows how essential it is to learn all through life. This was just so brilliant I had to re-post it here in its entirety. The 12 most powerful words in business from Ragans PR daily. Many powerful words for business have nary a thing to do, directly, with industry. People like proof. Reflect.

entrepreneurship Advertising communications entrepreneurs media startups technology TVI came across this terrific piece of film where the founder of Advertising Agency Wieden+Kennedy – Dan Wieden spoke on the future of TV. He has a smart point of view on “The New TV Landscape” and the opportunities it presents in business.

Most startups are started by business-centric founders, the ages of entrepreneurs are older than would appear from what is bandied about in the media, and there are simply a lot more women founded companies.  However, outside of a few zingers, there are no huge surprises.  These findings map pretty closely to what I have been seeing in NYC. 

Are you writing Website landing pages, e-mails, search engine optimization (SEO) tags, blogs, social media entries, and more on a daily basis? If so, you may be experiencing one or more of the following symptoms: Difficulty turning on the computer to start writing. Endlessly staring at a blank page waiting for inspiration to hit you. [.].

lot easier to create something in the social media space like that than to build smartphone and tablet hardware and the ecosystem it needs to go with it. dwellman : “Facebook was scared shitless and knew that for first time in its life it arguably had a competitor that could not only eat its lunch, but also destroy its future prospects.

social media social networks startups UncategorizedThe social Internet is fundamentally a game changer. Unlike the web-link driven Internet, the social Internet connects people directly to one another and the resulting social graph essentially provides for a brand new, highly scalable distribution mechanism.

The social media is giving a new boost to this old business model by enabling the entrepreneurial hosts to invite friends and friends of friends, and gather offline to socialize and transact, using online tools such as Facebook and Twitter. The Rediscovery of Direct Selling Businesses. The Overcapacity Marketplaces.

We believed that Alex and Joe, the two cofounders, would be able to repeat the success they had in founding Azoogle (now part of Epic Media Group) and that the repeat purchase behavior inherent in petfood would generate loyal repeat customers and high lifetime value, despite the high shipping costs inherent in petfood. Ecommerce petflow

Doing time on that social media chain gang…. social media Internet working humorWorking hard or hardly working?

Here is what I think of employers that want to snoop into the private online social media lives of job candidates and employees: Come hire me bro! The topic of online privacy and employer invasions into personal social media accounts has been getting plenty of attention.  Hilarity ensues. Is this a widespread practice however? 

The strangest thing about the evolution in business, communication and media is that we are acting as though the social element is some kind of anomaly. entrepreneurship business community entrepreneurs interaction internet social media startupsAs though it is a new form of human behaviour. Click here to read it.