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 pose taken by a band …read the rest of this article

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 the past, but refrained this …read the rest of this article

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 aren’t that worried about privacy …read the rest of this article

The latest data from Hitwise suggests that the battle between social networks is pretty much a one-horse race. Facebook wins.

Top 10 Social Networking Websites & Forums – November 2009
Facebook gets four times the traffic of its closest competitor, MySpace. Twitter – so beloved of the media and apparently the word of the year – will need to increase its page …read the rest of this article

The FT reports that The Economist plans to make headroads into social networks:
The Economist newspaper plans to acquire 500,000 fans on Facebook and 750,000 followers on Twitter within six months, in another sign that traditional publishers are looking to social media as a substantial source of web traffic and new readers.
via FT.com / UK – Economist eyes social network cash …read the rest of this article

YouTube – The Social Media Guru.
Have you even read my online internet blog? It’s mega-awesome.

Forgive me if you feel as though I’ve been battering you over the head with this, but NMK is conducting a user survey and I’d really like you to fill it in if you’ve had any dealings with us at all.
The survey is here.
Thank you very much indeed.
[Don’t worry about this any more the survey has closed and the powers-that-be …read the rest of this article

(Or, for those enjoying the puns, Nashional Guard.)
Every social media destination has some sort of scoring mechanism:

Twitter followers
Linked-In contacts
Facebook friends
Blog subscribers/comments

Those are the four I personally use most consistently, though I dip in and out of all the others to see what’s happening. They all have an equivalent.
What’s the result of those scores? Bigger is better always seems to be …read the rest of this article