While practically every media outlet on the planet is churning out stories about the US Presidential “showdown” we thought we’d have a quick look at what Facebook are doing. On their “stories” site they’re collating anonymous data about US voters. It’s pretty cool to watch, though it won’t give you any indication of which way […]
If you’re active on Twitter or Facebook (or both) then your streams probably fill up with a lot of talk of politics – especially when there’s an election going on.. At the moment the big one is obviously the US Presidential Election, but there’s plenty of others.. So what do you do if you’re not […]
A lot of us use social media, but maybe some of us are using the social sphere more for interactions than real life.. The infographic below, from Confused.com, goes into some of this – it’s quite amusing, but it also has a very strong ring of truth!
If you work in IT you probably have an affinity for coffee.. if you don’t, then your colleagues probably do .. So using coffee to explain social media isn’t really that surprising .. Which social network should be used for what is always one of those questions .. And now you have a coffee analogy […]
Zynga laid off a staff the same day that the tech media were distracted with Apple’s launch. Now Anonymous are coming after them – or at least this video claims that they are: [youtube]http://youtu.be/OG1ypqhWDQ0[/youtube] They’ve also made available the transcript of the video (since it’s a computer generated voice) as well as files that they’re […]
Explaining the internet is probably a lot easier using visuals, so here’s a very nice one that we got courtesy of Open Site:
Robert Scoble linked to one of our posts last week on Facebook and also retweeted a tweet about it. The impact on some of the metrics caught my eye: I’ve intentionally blanked out the number of retweets, mentions and clicks, as I was more interested in the “potential” metric. 297k! That’s big. But when I […]
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that the social media network now has 1 billion active users each month. They had hit the 500 million user mark just two years ago in July 2010 Here’s the full text of the announcement: This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. […]
UX Passion hail from Zagreb, Croatia. They’ve got a couple of interesting and cool things in the works, but their flagship product has been up and running for the last year or two – Wall of Tweets. It’s been used at a lot of tech events around Europe over the last couple of years and […]
App.net, which Conn and I have discussed a couple of times, announced last night that it was reducing its annual membership fees as well as introducing a new monthly subscription fee. According to a post on the company’s blog, the original pricing was based on them having 10 thousand users. They now have over 20 […]
