Nitro Digital has changed address…
Nitro Digital is pleased to announce that we moved offices over the weekend and are currently unpacking boxes in our new home! We’re now living at the bottom of London’s fashionable Soho region and can’t wait to check out the local bars and coffee shops…
Please note that our address has changed to:
13-14 Archer Street
London
W1D 7BD
You can check out the location on Google Maps.
Wikipedia Wars
The latest infographic (erm, information displayed visually) from the wonderful ‘Information is Beautiful’ looks at the most banal ongoing arguments that have been raging on between Wikipedia editors. For those of you that were under the impression that some articles are posted to a chorus of unified approval, whereas others involve some necessary lofty academic style debate over the validity of the facts may be a little surprised to see some of these edits. The debates range from the banal to the ridiculous, but one of the recurring themes hinges on U.S. and English spelling. Well, that’s one that will just run and run…. technology, no matter how social is not going to resolve that one.
You can see the original post here at ‘information is beautiful‘.
Physical Social Bookmarking
I stumbled across http://itizen.com/ the other day whilst seeking inspiration for social gaming ideas. I love the Web 2.0 feel of the website and the basic idea of it. In a nutshell it boils down to the following concept; you tag an item, object or thing, and then you tell a story about it. Over time the story should evolve as the item is passed on encountered by new people.
It’s more quaint than business opportunity at the moment as it’s a real world extension of the basic Wikipedia concept; contributing to more freely accessible information for everyone who is interested, and for, well, in this case potentially pretty much everything. But it has a more social aspect to it. At the very least I can certainly see a social games emerging from these concepts- think treasure hunt with Foursquare (location based) and Twitter (real time) maybe?
Perhaps tags should include 3-D barcodes, NFC (like Oyster) tags and in the future DNA style tagging? Part of me wants to run away at the big brother potential of all this social technology and part of my revels in it. The Itzen concept is certainly very interesting but early days, so I’m looking forward to seeing if people adopt it.
Tweeting from Soho Mountain
Urban Tick have been busy putting togther geospatial data from Twitter in fun and interesting ways. In the case above, they have created a whole new landscape based on the user data throughout London which starts at Soho Mountain – the epicentre of Twitter activity.
Other cities can be viewed on creator Fabian Neuhaus’ Flickr page
Source: Londonist.com
World cup 2010 and where to follow on social media
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past month you may have missed the world cup preparations. All over the TV here in the UK and throughout my holiday in Spain last week, the world cup made every channel, every other advert and dominated the news.
Google Stops the World From Working (…for a bit)
According to Mashable, last week’s (exceptionally) fun logo by Google, celebrating the 30th anniversay of the cult 80s videogame, ending up costing the world’s productivity $120,483,800 – or 82 million man-hours.
Rescue Time crunched the numbers, but you have to admit that this is a scary yet-exciting use of the Google brand who were effectively able to stop the world from working!
Social media news catch upHey, sorry I didn’t have chance to post the last two weeks social media news.
Thought I would run through the most news worthy social media stories and developments over the past couple of weeks.
Social media news catch up
Hootsuite update
Well if you have read my previous updates or follow me on Twitter you will know Hootsuite is my Twitter and social media management suite, well without boring you too much here are the features from the Hootsuite blog –
Social Page Evaluator – A new application to identify the current and potential value of your Facebook pageI’ve just found a really cool Facebook App to help evaluate the current and potential value of any given Facebook page that is not restricted.
It’s called the ‘Social Page Evaluator’ App and there is currently a beta version available. The App was released by Vitrue a social media management company providing technology solutions to help brands harness the vast marketing potential of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
The App that only took its developers 63 hrs to build and it’s a helpful first step to attach a real monetary value to your Facebook page. In the first instance, this will help marketers to understand how much a FB page is worth and how big its unexploited potential value is.
“Marketers are clamoring for data to determine ROI,” observed Vitrue CEO Reggie Bradford.
The evaluation is examined on the basis of a number of different factors. Amongst others the number of fans and their interaction and the post frequency are taken into account. Read the rest of this entry »
Social Media…is it just a fad?Social media has clearly become an important part of modern day life and business.
Social media
Its been a huge discussion for over a year, but this video really explains what social media is and what impact it actually has….and why it is not just a fad
Up to date news on the general election 2010I thought seeing as most people in the UK are actually talking about today’s General Election it would be a nice to tell you how to keep up to date on the voting!
On Twitter you can keep up to date with the following hashtags
#ge2010 and #UKvote
On Facebook –
Democracy UK
For the best mash up’s check out
Exit Polly
OR
The Guardian’s clever way of mash up tweets (to get involved you tweet #ukvote and your post code)
I also have you covered if you need a walk through if you do not know what to do aboutmyvote
Danny
