Relevant to a whole new generation! We don’t know who created this, but whoever it is, we’ve got a crush on them! Some crafty classics-loving individual has created a mock Facebook page for the Aeneid. It’s wonderful and hilarious. You don’t have to use Facebook to appreciate it, but you do have to know a [...]
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Facebook passes 175 million user mark
Robert Scoble says: Is it just me or is Facebook’s growth speeding up? Dave Morin, who runs Facebook’s application platform team, tonight announced on Twitter/friendfeed that Facebook had passed 175 million users. Congrats. I told a few people at Davos that Facebook would be THE story of the year in Silicon Valley. Twitter is trying [...]
READ MOREWelcome to the world of social media war rooms
Israel’s recent invasion might be the continuance of an old conflict, but it brought us something new and very depressing – social media propaganda campaigns: Both sides deployed dangerous new media weapons during this latest round of fighting in Gaza. Armed with Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts, and Lavazza espresso, warriors fearlessly and tirelessly scoured the [...]
READ MOREThe prospects for social networking (a personal view)
Much of the online buzz this year has been focused on Twitter (founded 2006), and to a lesser extent friendfeed (launched October 2007), just as last year it was facebook (founded february 2004), and before that linkedin (2003), myspace (2003) etc. These are just the tip of the iceberg there are dozens of other social [...]
READ MOREHow happy is your social network?
New research (which included a facebook component) found: social networks have clusters of happy and unhappy people within them that reach out to three degrees of separation. A person’s happiness is related to the happiness of their friends, their friends’ friends, and their friends’ friends’ friends—that is, to people well beyond their social horizon. We [...]
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PCTV and plodcasts: West Midlands police and social media
Tom Murphy (Microsoft, Dublin) writes about the extraordinary use of social media by Britain’s West Midlands Police force: Like all police forces, they have a need to engage directly with the public. With shrinking traditional media – social media offers a real alternative, with specific opportunities of engaging with younger people – and audience that’s [...]
READ MOREFacebook and the US presidential election
Some impressive statistics are emerging around the impact of the Presidential election on Facebook usage: Preliminary data shows an increase of more than 20 percent in activity on the site on election day vs. last Tuesday (measured by page views). More than 5.44 million people clicked the “I voted” button on Facebook to tell their [...]
READ MOREHow Obama uses Twitter and other social media tools
Barack Obama has over 100,000 followers on twitter. According to Twitterholic, that’s a lot more than anyone else. On Facebook, Obama has 2.2 million “friends” compared to 745,000 for McCain. On MySpace, Obama has 588,000 friends compared to McCain’s 188,000. Twitter is just part of a highly successful internet strategy which also includes wikis, youtube [...]
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