February 2012
61 posts
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What's the Coolest or Most Useful Piece of Branded...
Post a response, leave a comment, let me know!
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If Google Would Ditch Plus...
…and focus on integrating Hangouts with other networks, all might be better.
Nobody Gives A Damn About Google+ →
parislemon:
Ouch.
A quote from that site I refuse to link to:
Visitors using personal computers spent an average of about three minutes a month on Google+ between last September and January, versus six to seven hours on Facebook each month over the same period, according to comScore, which didn’t have data on mobile usage.
3 minutes versus seven hours. I mean, 3 minutes!
The sad thing is:...
“You shouldn’t get attached to a feature set. You should get attached to a...”
– Caterina Fake (via entrepreneurwisdom)
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Flickr Becoming Pintrest, Esquire's Animals Escape...
Why Esquire created a trailer for the animal escape story (MediaShift)
NYT writer defends Forbes reporter accused of ‘stealing’ his work (Romenesko)
5 key components of a successful interest graph (Mashable)
Countdown to Timeline for pages, profiles (All Facebook)
Is Twitter a newspaper or the phone company? (GigaOm)
Don’t shoot the messenger over user content, courts...
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“I took a great piece by an excellent reporter and created a version of it that...”
– Kashmir Hill (no relation), to Jim Romenesko. I’m all for curation, but is this really where journalism is headed?
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“As much there isn’t a lot of buzz about Google+, there’s no buzz about Flickr.”
– Mark Evans, writing on the sysomos blog. Flickr is rolling out some changes over the next few weeks, according to Mashable.
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Freeing the Cloud, G+ is Unnatural and Creativity...
Up close and personal with Adobe’s digital publishing suite (E&P)
How the digital blob feasts on our intimate data (CNN)
How setting the cloud free could change the Internet forever (Mashable)
Gamification: shall we play a game? (Soshable)
Stitcher first with Facebook Timeline radio news integration (CNET)
The New Haven Independent reboots its comment engine (Nieman)
Google...
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“According to a study by TBG Digital, Facebook’s new Sponsored Stories ad units...”
– Mashable, “9 Hot Tips for Marketing Small Business on Facebook”
Thoughts on Google Plus: It's Unnatural →
shortformblog:
parislemon:
Sarah Lacy talking about Google+ on PandoDaily:
We simply don’t need another social network, no matter how great your circles are or how badly Larry Page wants to have one.
Agreed. The problem, which Google really, truly does not seem to understand is that at the end of the day, they’re solving a problem which has already been solved. They may think it hasn’t,...
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Pintrest -> Instagram
Already: Instagram -> Tumblr -> Twitter.
And Pintrest -> Facebook.
If Pintrest -> Instagram, my life would be complete.
“Interest-based social networks have a markedly different focus and approach than...”
– Beyond Facebook: The Rise Of Interest-Based Social Networks | TechCrunch (via ideasatrandom)
“If you’re not doing something different, you’re not doing anything at all.”
– BBC News - Data scientist carves out new life as sculptor (via greglinch)
Datassette: Music For Programming →
ccastillo:
These mixes are perfect. If you’re a developer/programmer: DOWNLOAD!
Best of the Visualization Web →
lifeandcode:
Great, big list of data visualizations, many from news organizations, great to browse around on on a Saturday morning:
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I’ve come across during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter andGoogle+ you will see many of these items shared...
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“Not all of the ‘tools’ in my toolbox are in the form of an app or program. One...”
– Sheena Medina, community manager at Fast Company, to Mashable.
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ShortFormBlog: To give you an idea of Tumblr's... →
shortformblog:
500 million page views go through Tumblr every single day
40k requests added each second at Tumblr’s peak usage hours; and it’s growing, too
50GB of posts added each day; follower list updates are roughly another 2.7 terabytes daily
1M number of writes made through the dashboard…
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Mozilla in 2012, Vulgarity in Newsweek and Lots of...
The Washington Post’s digital future (Romenesko)
Instead of marketing, businesses should use social media for customer support (Business Insider)
Learn the basics of using Pintrest (PC World)
How to fine tune your Facebook news feed like a boss (Mashable)
Five ways brands can leverage Pintrest (TechCrunch)
Gamification grows up (TechCrunch)
Social media as community - room for debate...
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“The beauty of Twitter is that, like Soylent Green, it’s made of people. The best...”
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This comes from an overview in The Guardian about changes Sky News and the BBC made about how their reporters interact on social media sites.
In short, it’s a regression. Both organizations want their reporters to submit copy to the desk before breaking the core of the story on...
“The number of ™ and © marks that appear in a product’s description tends to be...”
– Dustin Curtis (via chartier)
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The Value of Like, 140-Character Humor and...
When did the New York Times first get…? (Poynter)
Patch’s plan to reduce staff, change editorial focus (Romenesko)
‘There are no layoffs planned’: Patch (Romenesko)
KCET announces new spring shows (Current)
Why you should stop marketing and fascinate your customers instead (Mashable)
Facebook usage may rise with job market rebound (All Facebook)
Marketers who share...
“Moving fast enables us to build more things and learn faster. However, as most...”
– Mark Zuckerberg (via david)
“My 10-year-old, who likes to make little videos on his laptop, wanted some music...”
– Philip Glass’s Life as an East Village Voice - Village Voice (via thisistheverge)
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The Final Super Bowl Numbers, Twitter Records and...
In the final three minutes of the Super Bowl, there were 10,000 Tweets per second (Techcrunch)
Brands scored 2x the likes by posting about the Super Bowl (Techcrunch)
Brands scored on Facebook during the Super Bowl; engagement soared 60% (AllFacebook)
Most Super Bowl Tweets were not about the game (Mashable)
Brand or celeb? Social media shows who Super Bowl ads helped most (Mashable)
The top...
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“As tech entrepreneur Elad Gil insightfully explained in an article on his blog...”
– Mashable’s Pete Cashmore writing about Pintrest on CNN.com. Read Gil’s blog post here.
“Before I became a social media editor, I got to be in on news meetings and...”
– Mandy Jenkins leaves ‘young person’s job’ of social media editor | Poynter. (via bui)
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The Super Bowl Social Media Scoreboard, Good News...
The upside-down world of public radio funding (Mark Ramsey)
Mandy Jenkins leaves “young person’s job” of social media editor (Poynter)
Twitter and Facebook 8 mentions each, Google+ gets 0 (Marketing Land)
How brands listen (or don’t) in the digital age (Soshable)
The day you’ll know social TV has arrived (Lost Remote)
There’s good news in numbers at PBS...
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“It feels good to be on Facebook. It might even feel better than life off...”
– Facebook study: people like you more than you like them, via SiliconValley.com.
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“It’s something that people who aren’t in social media don’t understand. You’re...”
– Mandy Jenkins describes life as a social media editor to Poynter.
Digital Marketing via @kkoolook: Millennials Look... →
digital-marketing-engineer:
In a few short years, millennials—consumers currently ages 18 to 34—will account for a sizeable portion of US purchase decision-makers.
Compared to their older counterparts, baby boomers, millennial internet users showed a greater reliance on anonymous recommendations and reviews when making…
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Things I Like More Than Super Bowl XLVI, Nos. 3-5
A team that didn’t win a championship…
…a team that probably won’t win a championship…
…and a team that probably will win a championship.
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Things I Like More Than Super Bowl XLVI, No. 2
Animals Talking In All Caps