Comments on: Twitter during a plane crash – and implications for news

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By: alex80

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By: Dave LaFontaine

Dave LaFontaine — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:38:13 +0000

What’s interesting to me is that Flickr has morphed from being a kinda brag site/web-based backup into a social media site, where photographers of all skill levels get together to yammer about whatever killer image they’re into.

The subscription model seems to be holding solid as a monetization scheme, but the temptation to start cramming context-sensitive ads onto the pages has got to be just about overwhelming right now … and there’s such rich data points to play with, all given up by the users in their behavior, friends & the subject material of the photos they’ve posted & looked at. Here’s a game: how low does Yahoo’s stock have to go before they start using APT on Flickr?

I liked your post about the “1000 Predictions for 2009.” Much better than the predictions coming on the banking & real-estate blogs, where the current mood runs somewhere between “Head for the hills! The apocalypse is here!” and “Why bother running? Just stick your head in the oven…”

Cheery bunch over there. Yah, I know, with reason.

Anyway. Here’s mine: 2009 will be the year that social media saturation becomes social media burnout, and users will start flocking to tools that will allow them to organize & make sense of their online personae & friends.

By: Dan Thornton

Dan Thornton — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:36:16 +0000

Great comment, and interesting website and resources!

I can understand your concerns about Flickr – and after all, Facebook is the largest repository or images, plus there are alternative image hosts – I think the reason I’d tend to go with Flickr for the moment is that it’s reached critical mass of users, and therefore is most likely to have the content a news site needs – the EULA is of more concern to content creators, after all – which is a different (albeit valid) concern to that of news sites!

And I can write a lot of posts (and frequently do on http://www.thewayoftheweb.net) about the music industry!

By: Dave LaFontaine

Dave LaFontaine — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:40:47 +0000

You are correct in identifying the instant crowdsourcing capabilities that are emerging as game-changers for the news business. Already, smart media companies (such as Schibsted, in Norway) are using the live video uploading functions of Nokia mobiles to compete with television in covering breaking news. The upside of moving in this direction is obvious: if web plays can start scraping off users from TV when it comes to breaking news, they can start building a more stable & predictable (read: advertiser-friendly) user base.

Not sure if I’d add Flickr to the list of “must-integrate” for news websites; I like Flickr, I’m a longtime user, but lately, the damn thing has been acting weird. Also, I am suspicious of their EULA; and for a content producer, the prospect of losing control over high-value content is not one to be taken lightly.

Just ask the music industry.