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People in the tiny Asian nation of Macau love Facebook. No seriously, around 90% of them check the social network on their phone at least once a month.That's according to the latest State of Mobile report from mobile web browser Opera Mini. This particular report focuses on social media and Macau's addiction to Facebook isn't the only surprising finding.Estonia for instance isn't exactly picky when it comes to the social networks it frequents. The tech-savvy Eastern European country ...
In a recent Memeburn article, Preshan Segers sheds light on where ideas come from and how they are ultimately crowdsourced. But it was only when websites started using social data and networks of collaboration that popular organizations like Wikipedia and social media sites started to use the idea of sourcing data from the crowd.Drawing on familiar concepts such as the popular Kickstarter platform and open sourcing, these initiatives ultimately serve the communities by the communities.Steven Johnson’s TEDx talk ...
Figuring out when trolling becomes dangerous abuse or when a deeply held political opinion comes hate speech is difficult. Add in factors like anonymity the interference of government in a space that was philosophically intended to be open and you can see why freedom of speech online is such a muddy issue. Things aren't about to get any clearer either.Previously Memeburn has reported the concerns of Vint Cerf -- one of the fathers of the internet and Google’s ...
Hurricane Sandy, and Instagram photos tagged with #sandy, "was probably the single largest event taking place that was captured on Instagram," said CEO Kevin Systrom. Speaking at the GigaOm Roadmap conference, Systrom also said that this may be "the single largest thing captured through digital images ever. Over 800,000 images were simply tagged with #sandy. Imagine how many total images were taken on the East Coast during this period of time."For a comparison, the recent Super Bowl delivered only 85 ...
Now that calm has been returned to the blogosphere, after Tumblr’s recent six-hour outage, we thought this would be a good time to take a peek at some of the most popular sites on the microblogging-slash-social networking site.Sitting somewhere at the intersection of Facebook, Twitter and WordPress, the five-and-a-half year old site currently boasts 79-million blogs and almost 35-billion posts. At time of writing, 9.5 million posts had been published on this day alone.Towards the end of the last ...
It must be difficult being Joe Fernandez. He is the founder of Klout: the social media analytics startup that measures users' influence across their social networks. Klout scores people based on their influence on networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
The company has come under heavy criticism for its measurement algorithm. The most vocal of these critics is TechCrunch co-Editor, Alexia Tsotsis, who wrote a piece titled: "Nobody Gives A Damn About Your Klout Score", following outcries from users ...
Latest news on the interwebs is that Facebook has just hit one-billion users, and launched its first brand ad, LinkedIn has just launched an influencer following tool and Twitter has joined forces with Nielsen. In case you missed all of that, here is a sum up to get you in the loop.Facebook’s first brand ad and one-billion user markIf you’re a brand that still thinks Facebook is a fad, it’s really time to get a reality check. In celebration ...
Latin American countries get social media. Brazil and Mexico lay claim to the world's second and fifth largest Facebook populations respectively. But it's not just Facebook that's making its mark in the region.The big blue social network alone wouldn't provide enough users to account for online research company eMarketer's prediction that the region's social media population will continue to grow by double digits through to 2014.Interestingly, the region seems a lot more taken with Google+ than the social ...
The only constant in life is change, and in the world of social media no phrase rings more true. Things change and evolve at an astounding rate. And with every new development, sharing, entertainment and conversation has become that much easier, and powerful. The thing about social media is that it is, well, social. And that means that various brands, platforms and conglomerates are bound to pair up or revamp in an attempt for digital dominance.Here are three new ...
For the past several months Facebook has been experimenting with a small number of businesses that have pages concerning a new feature called Facebook offers. This is truly an awesome weapon for any serious social media marketing campaign.To qualify all you need is a Facebook page and 400 fans or more. Facebook offers are rolling out starting with as little as US$5 in order to use offers. The whole idea is to share discounts or other special promotions whereas the ...
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