Social Media Done Well: One Frame at a Time

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

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Mobile + Cloud — Gartner’s Crystal Ball

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

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Facebook on Privacy: ‘We’re Finished’

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

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Top Social Networking Websites and Forums

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

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The Social Economist

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.

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The Social Media Guru

YouTube – The Social Media Guru.

Have you even read my online internet blog? It’s mega-​​​​awesome.