Even accounting for duplicate and inactive account logins, collectively, there are 750,000,000+ registered potential users (that’s 750 million for those of you that got dazed by the zero’s) that are spending time online frittering away their lives looking at what other people do and commenting about questions or circumstances that affect each of us. Or [...]
What a fascinating (and logical) way to gain higher volume traffic to your newly designed website – Electronic Arts www.ea.com – jumped right onto the Ashton Kucher vs CNN battle, publishing this press release on 16th April 2009: In supporting Ashton in his efforts, EA is offering Kutcher’s 1,000,000th follower on Twitter a copy of [...]
My first reaction was to laugh. The second was to frown. The third response was: “Damn it! Since when have I been described as bloody UNREMARKABLE?!” My excuse is that I’ve been onboard for only 2 weeks. So there. Once I was over my fit of apoplexy, I went back and Twanalysed a few other [...]
Not following aplusk as such, recently he’s gone on the record for challenging everyone from Ted Turner & @CNN across to a bunch of nobodies, with far less publicity cred to hit the iconised 1,000,000 mark from a followers point of view. Sounds like an opportunity to register yourself as a religion and avoid a [...]
Hard on the heels of my post a few weeks back, Information Architects Japan has just released Version 4 of its Web Trend Map. The full version can be viewed here at http://www.informationarchitects.jp/wtm, or click on the below image for a full size 6740 x 4768 (JPG 2.56Mb) on Flickr. As at time of writing [...]
This is very cool. Using the Tokyo Subway as an overlay, the uber smart dudes at Information Architects Japan have listed out close to 300 of the WWW most visited and influential websites. Each train line represents a trend which the site portrays i.e. social network, news etc. Interactive version here: http://informationarchitects.jp/start/
Kiwi judge follows Australian Facebook precedent It seems our progressive Australian Court System isn’t the only one in the world wading into the virtual reality of Facebook and its 170 million plus inhabitants with virtual writ in virtual hand. A New Zealand court – the High Court no less - also deciding it was possible [...]
SlideShare is to PowerPoint presentations what YouTube is to Video. This particular example of http://www.slideshare.net/wah17/social-media-35304 showcases the machinations of “Social Media & Marketing – Revolution or Evolution.” In addition to the above presentation, again YouTube like, there are similar presentations from different commentator’s about the validity, reach and depth of the whole social media movement.
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