To further the dialogue and understanding of the Social Graph, Wedbush Equity Analyst Lou Kerner hosted a call on November 30 with several experts on Social and Search, saying ”We believe Social Media and its associated technologies will change the world to a larger degree than is currently appreciated on Wall Street. The Social Graph is an increasingly important element of Social Media, yet it’s not well understood.”
Investor interest in Social business continues to intensify: Wedbush showed that funding of companies in the social space was up 100% in Q4 vs. Q3. Justin Smith noted that 45 Billion new pieces of data about people and the things they care about are being created each month, and asked the question “Who is going to challenge Facebook’s social graph?” David Kirkpatrick says Google will challenge Facebook, the question is where and how given their graph information is located in a variety of places, they don’t have the social expertise in-house and that Bing/Facebook presents a significant challenge.
