Social Media Now 8.11.08
August 11, 2008 by Janet Fouts
Social Media Now 9-11-08
Here’s a bit of what’s going on in social media of late. Feel free to add your own links in the comments section, or send us you suggestions for the next issue of Social Media Now.
Chris Brogan shares his best advice about social media.
The Dontgo movement showed that the Republicans can get social media and they used social media channels to help build their “revolution”. Then they showed they didn’t get social media when they started banning posts from the Twitter feed as “inappropriate”. After some fast thinking they now offer a feed in “filtered” and “unfiltered” versions.
We found some interesting stats on the most popular social bookmarking services on Digital Inspiration.
Jeremiah Owyang posted his thoughts on the tracking of the propane explosions in Toronto as news spread from Twitter to the print press.
Another take on social media as a buzzbuilder, “Applying Circuit Breakers to a Social Media Mob Mentality” is about how we can fan the flames of a personal interaction until it quickly becomes the shot heard round the world.
Benedikt Koehler posted an interesting cloud/map of who’s investing in Web 2.0 companies.
Bright Shiny Objects
Missing your Facebook pokes because you don’t have a smart phone? Sarah Perez from ReadWriteWeb posted an article on a free mobile push app called BlueWhaleMail that can push your Facebook posts, pokes and messages to your mobile phone, even if it’s not a smart phone. (Available for selected Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones)
Speaking of Facebook, Guy Kawasaki set up a Facebook group for Alltop for viewers and owners of the sites and blogs Alltop aggregates. Sign up here:
Crunchgear turned 2 on August 11, and they’re giving away goodies for the next 10 days.
Posty is the latest Adobe Air app. to surface. It posts your updates to Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr Frinedfeed and Identi.ca.
AllofMe launched their public Alpa. It’s a timeline builder, allowing you to scan event or project timelines visually, or create a personal timeline of important events.
Nice collection of great articles. It will take me all night to work through these.
Thanks.
This is a very insightful post filled with lots of great resources. Thanks for sharing.
Hi,
I will also take the time to read this all.
I made a blog post about the (reach) statistics of social media. I’m preparing one about the time spend per user.
http://badideaindeed.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/social-media-statistics/
Since I don’t want to be a link dropper only, here are the main 2008 stats (June) I mention in my post:
“Facebook clearly boomed and reaches now 15,4% of the internet population. Youtube (34,6%) is now bigger than wikipedia (29,1%). Twitter is 3 times bigger than one year ago (but it’s still only 0,3% global reach). Myspace stagnated (13,7% in june 2008, delicious is among the losers with only 0,2% reach.”
Cheers
Thanks for this - great idea.
Nice blog btw