New data from Nielsen confirms what you probably already know. Traffic to and time spent on social networking sites has boomed over the last two years. As the charts below show, people across the world are spending around five-and-a-half hours per month on social networking sites compared to just over two hours at the end [...]
January 25, 2010
There is a fever of anticipation over the imminent release of a tablet-style computer from Apple – let’s call it the iSlate [Thursday Update - actually, let's call it the iPad - I stand by everything else in the post, though]. Nobody outside the company knows very much about how it works or its specifications, but [...]
January 22, 2010
Groundswell – the Forrester Research social media blog – has produced an update to its engagement ladder diagram: The diagram was changed to add in users of Twitter and other ‘status-update’ applications, most notably Facebook. Author Josh Bernoff notes that this group has a different demographic make-up to others: Conversationalists intrigue me. They’re 56% female, more than [...]
January 21, 2010
My estwhile colleague, the excellent David Gauntlett, has posted a new video about the work towards his next book Making is Connecting:
January 20, 2010
I want to remember this: (via Swissmiss), the CMYK embroidery project. CMYK embroidery is a hand-made printing process, based on computer generated halftone screens. Images are halftoned according to conventional screen angles: Cyan 105, Magenta 75, Yellow 90 and Black 45. Dot screens are the transformed into cross-stitch screens, printed on paper and marked for embroidery. I [...]
January 20, 2010
When people were asked where they found out about news stories in a new Pew Research Center project, their answer was old media, predominantly newspapers. This is the headline table: Sector From Which New Information Reported (Six Key Storylines) Sector % of All Stories Print 48% Local TV 28 Niche media 13 Radio 7 New media 4 Source: Pew Research Center, January 2010
January 19, 2010
The Predictive Web | Brian Solis Social Media becomes less about a move-and-react strategy and sets the stage for engendering meaningful interactions as well as building more tuned business infrastructures to support anticipated activity based on the intelligence and insight extracted from online behavior. (tags: predictions predictive intentions socialweb,) Why Twitter Will Endure – NYTimes.com Twitter is looking more [...]
January 18, 2010
In this online radio interview, internet visionary Jaron Lanier talks about the danger of Web 2.0 turning us into a collectivist digital mush. He’s got a new book out, so doing a lot of PAs lately. The problems, to paraphrase, are these: Collectivisation We’ve reached for the wisdom of crowds, and this silences individual voices. This blog [...]
January 15, 2010
You may well have seen this already, but there’s a lovely interactive campaign being carried out by Dutch indie band C-Mon & Kypski. (Note: never heard of them; don’t care; bring back The Smiths). The idea is that fans can collaborate with the band in their latest music video. You use your webcam to imitate a [...]
January 14, 2010
Late December and early January see the seasonal appearance of a popular type of blog post: ‘My Predictions for [Next Year]’. They’re a great stock-in-trade because you can say whatever you like and nobody can prove you wrong until the end of the following year, by which time everyone’s forgotten. I’ve written a couple in [...]
January 11, 2010
I’ve just installed the Wordpress Mobile Pack, a free set of plug-ins that format, edit and compress your blog so that it works better for mobile users. It switches to the mobile version on-the-fly as it detects the user agent (browser) used. There’s a link to the mobile version in the sidebar, if you want [...]
January 11, 2010
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is reported as having changed his mind about privacy. The recent set of changes to the site’s T&Cs in December – which rendered members’ names, profile picture, gender, network, fan pages and friends visible to the world unless they explicitly changed their settings – merely reflects societal norms, Zuckerberg says. People [...]
January 27, 2010