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
This weeks top 5 social media news 23/04/10 to 30/04/10This week has been a good week for social media maybe not so great for Google, below will reveal all -
1. Facebook like button now replaces back links?
Something both Google and SEO’ers are slightly concerned about is the new Facebook like button. Facebook have made a very smart move in my opinion by creating a button which tells your friends what you like with one click, maybe something that were inspired by the Retweet back early 2009. Watch this space how it evolves and where the Like button crops up but for now its a watch this space
Internet World 2010As the title suggests Internet World 2010 is everything related to the web in a conference/expo format.
Some of the big web hosts were there, Rackspace were pushing there new no more servers and had a huge stand as you walked in, Ukfast probably had the biggest stand and most appeal with a race car right in the middle of the expo floor, obviously a big win for the amount of men and suits who attended Earls Court 2 (yesterday)
This weeks top 5 social media news 17/04/10 to 23/04/10This week there has been many stories in social media, some good news some bad news, here are my top 5 news worthy stories -
1. Facebook like button
This was a small change from Wednesday, rather than becoming a fan, you know Like it.
There have been are a few groups started which have made me giggle this week -
If you need to think about these, you probably do not get the humour
It rough
It dirty
Nice and slow
