- Social Media – #2011- Wrapping Up and Looking Forward
On this Year-End Episode of This Week in Social Media, It’s time to look back at the biggest stories of 2011! Robert is joined by Sam Osborn, the show’s producer, as they talk Social Media IPO’s, Viral Social Unrest, to include Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement, SOPA, and the emergence of real competition to Facebook. Also, Robert delivers his predictions for the most important trends of the coming year. Timecodes: 00:03- Intro 00:16 Introducing Sam 00:45 The top stories of the year 01:44 Social Media IPO’s 02:45 Linked In 3:30 Groupon, deal hunting locusts? 6:10 Zynga! Valued at 9 billion 6:55 Social media: bubble or boom? 7:48 Zynga is brutal in a good way 8:00 Facebook 8:55 Facebook’s dominace illustrated by Ben Elowitz 9:40 Is Facebook AOL part 2? 11:00 Social Media Political Landscape 11:18 Social Unrest goes Viral 11:40 Rob’s man of the Year: Julian Assange 12:16 #Egypt most tweeted of the year 14:00 Arab Spring 15:00 Speed and Scale of world events; Social Media empowers this 15:50 UK riots and Blackberry Messenger Service, and the emergence of the leaderless autonomous mob 17:00 The Occupy Movement, using social media in a collaborative fashion. The movement used Tumblr, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ among others 18:20 The Viral nature of the Occupy Movement 19:22 The heavy-handed government response to social media 20:00 Case in point: Pepper Spray Cop 22:16 Cell phone cameras are shifting the balance of power 22:50 Legalities of videotaping police at …

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