[Originally posted to the Headshift blog last Friday] Most owners of social software systems use the data generated through usage in their reporting of metrics. So, alongside the standard metrics such as unique users, page impressions, time spent, etc, social… Continue Reading
Peace on Facebook "Facebook is proud to play a part in promoting peace by building technology that helps people better understand each other. By enabling people from diverse backgrounds to easily connect and share their ideas, we can decrease world… Continue Reading
How people assess online content and services | Ofcom The main purpose of this exploratory qualitative research is to examine how people assess the veracity, trustworthiness, independence and balance of online content and services. A secondary purpose is to explore… Continue Reading
Hacker News – community guidelines (tags: onlinecommunitymanagement onlinecommunity guidelines) Who does the most social media? Some data. Maybe. – Jon's posterous Region by region look at who is, and isn't, doing social media in the UK (tags: statistics socialmedia trends)… Continue Reading
Spot.Us, pioneer of crowdfunded journalism, preps for expansion » Nieman Journalism Lab "I caught up with Cohn at the Knight Foundation’s conference earlier this month. He won a $340,000 grant from Knight last year to develop a local news site… Continue Reading
Do-It-Yourself iPhone Apps – BusinessWeek Fancy making an iphone app? It's easier, and cheaper, than you think… (tags: iphone technology strategy businessweek mobile) Facebook Group Needle In A Haystack Hopes To Solve Photo Mystery: Camera Found In Mykonos, Greece |… Continue Reading
Putting a Price on Social Connections – BusinessWeek Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production (tags: roi ibm mit socialmedia enterprise statistics) 92-year-old's website leaves oil giant… Continue Reading
Bing Twitter Search First iteration of bing's twitter search… (tags: search socialsearch twitter bing) BREAKING: Google Announces Search Deal With Twitter (tags: twitter search bing google socialmedia) 5 Small Businesses Successfully Using Social Media Some nice examples of small businesses… Continue Reading
M¦Buzz – Social Media Monitoring Presentation with screen shots of mBuzz, a social media monitoring tool (tags: mbuzz socialmediamonitoring publicrelations marketing customerservice monitoring) Mobile Industry Review – Who's Who – Amy Cope of Vodafone UK Interview with Vodafone's eForum outreach… Continue Reading
BBC NEWS | Technology | End of an era for early websites Yahoo-owned GeoCities once boasted millions of users and was the third most popular destination on the web. Yahoo, which acquired the site for $3.57bn (£2.17bn) in 1999 at… Continue Reading