As if by magic, Delicious has relaunched. I had that sinking feeling when I powered up my laptop this morning and noticed that the Delicious add-on that I use to navigate the web wasn’t loading properly. It didn’t take long to figure out that there are some fairly radical changes going on. Superficially it looks [...]
Archive | September, 2011
3 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Social Media Architecture
via mashable.com This is pretty good, from my ex-employer Fleishman Hillard. Everyone likes graphics because they (usually) make things clearer. In this one, anything big and green in the centre is good, because it’s a nice, living social media presence. Anything red is bad, because it’s dead. The FH solution is simply to delete the [...]
Facebook’s F8 changes: a slight case of oversharing? | Econsultancy
Facebook is renowned for rolling out new platform changes at a moment’s notice, but if early buzz is to be believed, this Thursday’s F8 developer conference will offer something a little bit special. Major changes are expected that could fundamentally reshape the way content is found and shared on the world’s largest social network. Will [...]
Gamers solve puzzle in 3 weeks that stumped scientists for a decade
This is only the first time that online gamers have figured out the solution to a complex scientific problem. Foldit co-creator Seth Cooper said that their spatial reasoning skills allowed gamers to succeed where powerful computers had failed before and expressed hope that their game, and others like it, would lead to many such accomplishments [...]
YouTube Founders Aim to Revamp Delicious
via nytimes.com These are your new social media pin-ups. They’re the guys who are going to save Delicious – by quite some way the most powerful, effective and yet simple way of sharing content online. It was also by quite some way the largest, but the dolts at Yahoo couldn’t figure out what to do [...]
Whither Social Mention?
Social Mention is a pretty good social media aggregator. Think Google, but for social media. When I say ‘pretty good’, I mean it’s not without its faults. It doesn’t do real phrasal searches – that is, a search for “Brendan Cooper” in quotes will give results with just “Brendan” and “Cooper” in them, which is [...]
The ROI of Social Media: 10 Case Studies – TNW Social Media
The question of whether or not social media drives ROI still plagues many marketers and brands. The issue is not always as straightforward as it seems, as there are multiple ways to measure the benefits of social media and it isn’t as simple as looking for a direct sales return at one end, with the [...]
Social spume
- BREAKING: Facebook to File for IPO Next Week [REPORT]The long-awaited tech IPO of the year — perhaps of the decade — is on. Facebook will file its paperwork for an Initial Public Offering on Wednesday, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Details are scarce, and the WSJ’s source is unnamed. But the Journal has a track record on such stories that is hard to dispute. The filing could yield $100 bi […]Chris Taylor
- MAJOR RUMOR: Facebook Filing IPO Docs WednesdayRumor has it Facebook may submitting paperwork on Wednesday to register Facebook for an initial public offer. We are updating this post in real time, so be sure to hit hard refresh for updates. Streetinsider.com tweeted the rumor, suggesting that the social network would have the ticker FBOOK and that Goldman Sachs may play a major role in the deal.Jackie Cohen
- Google Music Finally Lets You Download Your Own Tunes [VIDEO]Google Music, Google’s cloud music service, has finally introduced a feature that lets users download their music to a computer with just a click of a button. It’s been nearly a year since Google Music made it easy for users to add their music to the cloud services for easy streaming. The service didn’t make it so easy, however, to retrieve music from your o […]Zachary Sniderman
- Snaps on Maps: Google Wants to Send Photographers Inside Your BusinessGoogle wants to get all up in your business — but in a good way. The search giant just unveiled an expansion to its Business Photos program, which aims to put indoor images of businesses on Google Maps and Google Places profiles. The program now has a clear way to hook business owners up with local photographers with its “Trusted Photographers” initiative. I […]Peter Pachal
- Over 50% Of Facebook Users Worry About TimelineMore than half of Facebook users are worried about timeline, according to a poll of 4,110 people by Sophos. More specifically, of the 4,110 respondents to the Sophos poll: 51.29 percent said timeline worried them; 32.36 percent said they didn’t know why they were still on Facebook; 8.39 percent guessed they’d get used to timeline; and 7.96 percent liked time […]David Cohen
- Guest Blog Post by James McDavid - Snickers, Twitter and the problem of complianceWhen tweets from Katie Price (aka Jordan, a British glamour model) talking about the recently released Chinese GDP figures and the potential effects of large scale quantitative easing on the liquidity of the bond markets began appearing in my Twitter stream early this week I was a little surprised. Not entirely shocked (I 'accidentally' read her au […]Anthony Mullen
- Google and Bing Searches Help Us Pirate Music?Of course the public is going to pirate music when 80% of our search results for music direct us to illegal sites. That’s the claim made by a coalition of entertainment industry groups in a private document sent to the U.K. government. In the paper, the coalition says that Google and other search engines such as Bing implicitly support pirating and copyright […]Zachary Sniderman
