Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
acquisitions
I missed this last week [http://newscorp.com/2013/12/20/news-corp-acquires-social-news-agency-storyful/] : > Accelerating News Corpās digital transformation and video strategy, the company has acquired Storyful, the worldās first social news agency. Storyful, of course, are a brilliant lot, who have made the skill of verifying stories and
business
Allegedly Gary Vaynerchuk [http://www.garyvaynerchuk.com] hadnāt slept for two days before his talk at LeWeb. I well believe it given how rambling it was. This isnāt a conventional chronological liveblog, as Iāve tried to gather together his thoughts into subject groupsā¦ Go deep not wide
entrepreneurship
Liveblog of Guy Kawasaki [http://www.guykawasaki.com] talking on stage at LeWeb 10. A few years ago people were predicting that MySpace would be the operating system of the internet. Now Facebook is close to that. Would you really have invested in Twitter 7 years ago? Predicting the future
snapchat
Mathew Ingram responds to Farhad Manjoo on how telling teenagersā use of tech is [http://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/why-the-youth-market-matters-for-snapchat-and-facebook-despite-what-the-wsj-thinks/] : > [ā¦] teens and twenty-somethings are good predictors of technologyās future, even if the services or apps or hardware they prefer at a specific point in time donāt
aggregation
Twitter launches custom timelines [https://dev.twitter.com/blog/introducing-custom-timelines]: > Custom timelines are an entirely new type of timeline ā one that you create. You name it, and choose the Tweets you want to add to it, either by hand or programmatically using the API (more on that below). This
event amplification
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/10/10258650884_5753ba04ec_z.jpg] Mashable reports on a complete abuse of New York Comic Con attendeesā Twitter accounts [http://mashable.com/2013/10/11/new-york-comic-con-promotional-tweets/] : > Fans, celebrities and press attending New York Comic Con on Thursday sent out
embeds
Interesting thing that happened while I was away: Facebook posts became embeddable by all [https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2013/08/21/embedded-posts-now-available-to-everyone/] . For example: [Post](https://www.facebook.com/adamtinworth/posts/10153129669970456) by [Adam Tinworth](https://www.facebook.com/adamtinworth).Thatās one heck of a potential resource
professionalism
Euan Semple [http://euansemple.com/theobvious/2013/9/2/linkedin-professionalism-or-keeping-up-appearances] : > The full impact of the social web will only be apparent when being āprofessionalā ā in the sense of restrained, impersonal, guarded and ābusinesslikeā as distinct from being bloody good at your job ā is finally seen as unproductive, dysfunctional, often
social business
Stephanie Booth [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2013/08/12/refaire-sa-job-description/]: > I recently realised that I need to distance myself a little from this social media pigeonhole Iām in ā not that Iām going to stop doing what Iāve done until now, not at all, but I find
Channel 4 news ran a big investigation into Facebook Likes [http://www.channel4.com/news/facebook-likes-hacking-fan-data-internet-how] last week: > As Facebook has grown to 1.15 billion users, gaining ālikesā or fans, the social network has become a valuable marketing opportunity for companies. One social intelligence company put the value
Social Media
Euan Semple on the recent Twitter abuse issues [http://euansemple.com/theobvious/2013/7/31/a-volume-control-on-mob-rule]: > Bullies gain strength from that audience. The audience is to blame for not saying anything. Sure their hardcore mates would have egged them on but there must have been some at the periphery
Politics
Do all those fine folks on Twitter represent a good cross-section of the general public? > Overall, the reaction to political events on Twitter reflects a combination of the unique profile of active Twitter users and the extent to which events engage different communities and draw the comments of active
