Social Media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories, in scan-friendly format.
This Week:
- How Obama Won the Online War
- Web 2.0 Summit Updates: Zuckerburg and Yang
- Happy 5th Birthday Delicious!
- Health 2.0 You Say?
- How Will Twitter Make Money #1,000,123
- Following the Election on Twitter Sucked
How Barack Obama Won the Online War
We all know that the President-elect has changed the game in terms of how elections are run, embracing the youth vote through the social tools which they use to communicate and raising millions in campaign funds through omnipresent widgets. No serious electoral candidate in future will go to war without having a serious social media strategy, and without thinking seriously about how to coin it from online contributions.
In case you missed it, someone died and made the Associate Press King of How Bloggers Can Use AP Content. Or so it would seem since the AP has released its own rules about how bloggers are allowed to use content written by the AP.
Apparently, they had their fill of being generously quoted and having their content graciously linked from blogs audaciously talking about the topics covered in their original articles. It's clear that something had to be done.
TechCrunch UK has crunched the numbers on venture capital (VC) in Mediatech in Europe, identifying the biggest deals, the most prolific investors and VC trends in new media in the region. TC's report is backed up by figures released by the Library House research group.
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