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Top : The Coming Social Media Bust: There are a lot of indicators that the social media world is going to experience a bustup on the scale of the dot.com crash of 2000. We're pulling all this together so people can see it.
Articles:5 Ways To Spot The Next Stock Bubble - And Avoid It - Investopedia.com - by Douglas RiceHow much more money would you have if you saw the tech bubble or the real estate bubble coming? If you had a crystal ball, playing market bubbles would be easy. Unfortunately, we can't know when bubbles will form or pop. So instead of trying to catch the next big thing, what if you tried to avoid the next big thing? Doing so would probably be more profitable for many people. But that's easier said than done. All bubbles look great until they pop, or do they? If a bubble is defined as when the price of an asset gets significantly above the value of the asset, then looking for overpriced assets would be the best way to spot the next bubble. Here are a few signs that something that looks really good is going to eventually look really bad. (Added: 7-Feb-2011 Hits: 96 ) Twitter Is Filled With Zombie Accounts, Says New Pew Study - by Nick Saint 6% of adults in the United States use Twitter, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. That's very impressive. But it's not nearly as impressive as the Twitter stats the company likes to quote. 6% of U.S. adults comes out to fewer than 15 million people. Twitter recently announced that it already has 175 million users, 65 million of them in the U.S. Unless 50 million American teenagers (Pew didn't count them) are on Twitter, there's a huge discrepancy there. (Added: 10-Dec-2010 Hits: 783 ) Here's How Lousy The Blog Hosting Business Is: WordPress Company Revenue Only About $10 Million A Year - by Dan Frommer WordPress is arguably the best free blogging platform on the planet, and founder Matt Mullenweg should be commended for all the open-source and for-the-greater-good initiatives that WordPress parent company Automattic has done. But wow, given the magnitude of WordPress -- and its dominance in the market -- what a small business. (Added: 10-Dec-2010 Hits: 484 ) 5 Signs That Social Media Is The Next Bubble - by Ryan C. Fuhrmann A recent investment by investment banking firm Goldman Sachs valued Facebook at $50 billion. The company was only founded in 2004, meaning the valuation went from zero to the stratosphere in just six years. A number of other leading social media firms are also being valued in the billions. These include firms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Zynga and Groupon, the last of which was rumored to be offered $6 billion from Google to fold it into its market-leading online advertising business. Each of these firms is less than 10 years old, so while the rapid increase in values has been impressive and has made early investors rich, signs are emerging that investing in social media is reaching bubble proportions (Added: 7-Feb-2011 Hits: 103 ) Beware the Facebook/Twitter/ Zynga/Pandora/HuffPo bubble! - Fortune Finance - by Duff McDonald The revelation that JPMorgan Chase is planning a dedicated fund to invest in social media companies on behalf of its wealthy clients is the loudest announcement yet that the third (fourth?) Internet bubble is in full swing. (AWESOME) (Added: 15-Feb-2011 Hits: 100 ) Is a social media bubble ready to burst? - iMediaConnection.com - by Michael Estrin Right up front I should say that I think I'm suffering from bubble fatigue. I entered the workforce just before the dotcom bubble went bust. Since then, it seems as though bubbles have dominated much of my adult life. If I'm not hearing about a bubble that just burst, I'm wondering if we're in the middle of some bubble that's about to burst. And yet for all this talk of bubbles, there seems to be no talk of a bubble for bubbles. I mention this because I was a little wary when an editor at iMedia asked me to write about the possibility of a social media bubble. In March, Umair Haque had written a blog post in the Harvard Business Review hypothesizing that we were indeed in the middle of a social media bubble. (Depending on your definition, blogs can be considered social media, but that irony wasn't mentioned in the post.) (Added: 7-Feb-2011 Hits: 100 ) The Social Media Bubble - by Jaime Woo First came the housing bubble. Then came the debt bubble. Now a social media bubble? That's what Harvard Business Review blogger Umair Haque (who caused a stir at this year's SXSW Interactive Festival) is predicting. He thinks users of social web tools are dealing in relationships that are "low-quality," "weak," and "artificial." He suggests that, like that of products in a financial bubble, the value of these relationships has been overblown, and that even the meaning of the word "relationship" has been diluted. (Added: 7-Feb-2011 Hits: 108 )
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