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I am sitting here looking at a photo of my family taken on a recent vacation: everything looks great.We're a happy family. Source: Jon SumroyOf course the camera always lies! The moments leading up to this idyllic snap were the usual chaos … “stop fighting; sit still; can you all look at the camera at the same time; smile please… look happy; stop tapping; take another one just in case”. But the result is fine; my wife and I ...
Facebook users that click "like" on a variety of cultural subjects reveal a surprisingly large amount of information about themselves even if they've taken steps to tighten up their privacy settings.A recently published study by researchers at Cambridge University in the UK and Microsoft Research, used an automated analysis of 58 000 volunteers' Facebook "likes" to make highly accurate predictions about a person's private and very sensitive personal attributes.The authors of the study: "Private traits and attributes are predictable ...
Twitter archive adds Danish, Filipino, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu— Twitter (@twitter) March 21, 2013Twitter's archive feature is now available in a dozen new languages including Russian, Portuguese, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.The archive feature, announced back in December, allows users to download all their tweets ever, from time in memoriam... or more accurately the date of joining the microblogging service.A Twitter blog post from December had this to say about its archive feature: "Over ...
As time goes on, it becomes clear that this whole internet thing isn’t just a passing fad. Yet somehow, as popular as social networking has become around the world, no one has really managed to solve the problem of what happens to a person’s web presence when they die.Facebook deletes or memorializes the accounts of dead users (meaning that you can still post on their wall, but the account can’t be updated or even logged in to) but that ...
Social networking stalwart Facebook claims one-billion users. That’s around a seventh of the population of the planet. Sometimes it’s easy to believe the internet is comprised solely of Google, Wikipedia and Facebook. But what about more regional social networks, mobile social networks and specifically those with a strong foothold in emerging markets? How do they stack up against the behemoth that is Facebook?According to Italian social media strategist Vincenzo Cosenza although Facebook’s star is still ascending around the world, there ...
There's a throwaway line that goes something along the lines of "Google+ is where I go when I want to be alone". With 343-million people on the social network though, you might find it to get some personal space.Yup, the social network that so many wrote off as sheer folly on the Google's part is now the second most popular in the world.According to the latest stats from Global Web Index Facebook still has the lead in the ...
Anyone going to Myspace today would've been met by a picture of Justin Timberlake, with an invitation to join or sign into the social network to listen to his new single. That means only one thing, the new Myspace is open to the public.The Myspace makeover has been in the works for some time now. The social network we all inhabited before Facebook first announced the new direction it would be taking the site in back in September.What ...
As 2012 fades into our rearview mirrors, it is time to reflect on the past year to identify what we did right (and wrong) and changes we need to make in 2013 to derive more value out of our social media efforts. I have listed a number of behaviours below which I have noted on a number of platforms which people should either do more of or stop immediately. By doing so, it will make these environments better for all.Broadcast ...
In a world of one-billion plus Facebook users, or 250-million plus Google+ users it’s easy to forget the little (and not so little) guys and focus on the larger social networks. Any good strategist will tell you that can be a mistake. With 19-million plus active users or “deviants” (over three-million in the UK alone) spending more than 10 minutes a month a prime example of this could be said to be deviantART.Except it’s no overnight success... it's been ...
It's here. Microsoft has finally unleashed the Beta version of its collage-based social and search network Socl onto the world.According to Microsoft, the network began life as "an experiment in social search" targeted at students for the purpose of learning. Back then it was called Tulalip, with Microsoft Research's Fuse Labs officially launching it internally and to a select number of university students in October last year.Following the lead of the Socl community, the company says, it ...
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