While it's early days yet, a quick look at browser usage stats shows Google's Chrome browser appears to have dented Firefox market share rather than that of Internet Explorer. Industry feeling is Chrome was intended to compete with the Microsoft browser, rather than Firefox or Opera, et al. You live by the early adopters, you die by the early adopters?

So if you meet an early adopter have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste. To be an early adopter of new web applications and specifically Web 2.0 social networks and User Generated Content (UGC) based sites like Norg, Twitter, Brightkite etc means that you come in before that site or network has reached critical mass. In fact - you join up when they're still handing out single ... Read full entry

Plurk is the new Twitter. In order to become this spring's black however, Plurk needs to jump something Gordon Whitehead refers to as the "The Sticky Media Gap". Social Media brands have to understand after the initial hype, brilliant ideas have to cross "The Sticky Media Gap." A big gap that exists between social media Thought Leaders and Early Social Media Adopters... and like traditional media - it ... Read full entry