The Newseum, the museum of news in Washington DC, together with Google and YouTube are launching an international Journalists Memorial channel in order to remember the journalists who have died in the last year while reporting news around the world.
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The Sunday Times has jumped onto the social influence band wagon with the launch of The Sunday Times Social List. According to them, “The algorithm focuses on other people’s activity around an individual’s postings, rather than raw follower numbers.”
At the end of last year, I proved that bots who tweet regularly, but non-interactively, can get very high Klout scores. I repeated this experiment against Peerindex, with somewhat better results. Obvisouly, the next target should be their list, should it not? Read More
Hurrah there is a winner and it is Lady Gaga. The queen of pop has become the first Twitter user (really superstar user) to soar past the 10 million follower mark. She beat Canadian popster Justin Bieber to take the 10 million crown. Read More
MySpace cofounder Chris DeWolfe has given a strong hint that he fancies another crack at the social network he set up and wants to buy it back from News Corp.
In an article in Businessweek he refuses to deny a bid and says only that he can not talk about it. Read More
The Sunday Times has launched The Sunday Times Social List. Its the social media version of the Rich List. The idea being that while most of us are never going to get on the Rich List this is a list you can get on.
It is a really clever idea. Inspired by those industry based Peer Index lists that we all love. It pulls your social activity from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare and gives you a social ranking.
Oh yes, a small big point. It sits, as it would have to, outside of the Sunday Times paywall. Without that it would stand no chance of working. Read More
Twitter: among sites to be injuncted
With Twitter being said to have made a mockery of the concept of the super-injunction, news comes today of a new legal ruling that specifically prevents social networking sites from naming people involved in the case of a woman with severe brain damage and her mother, who wants to stop life sustaining treatment being administered to her.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the order bans any mention of the family in any kind of media, but specifically mentions Twitter and Facebook. It also says that reporters are not allowed within 50 metres of the care home where the daughter lives, unless they have permission.
As the Facebook and Burston-Marstellar Google smear story continues to rumble the social network has come out and said that while it is true it didn’t want its name used it argues that its intentions were never to smear Google anonymously.
It said it wanted to see if people thought the this Google Social Circles tool was more of an issue than just a competitive one between Facebook and Google. That is why, it says, it didn’t want its name used – not because we are scared of the issue or don’t think it’s legitimate. Read More
Facebook users have now been given the ability to tag brand Pages in their photos, in the same way they can tag their friends. Once fans have tagged the can of Coke they are holding or celeb they spotted, it will appear on the photo tab of the brands page.
Currently this feature is only available for pages within the Brands & Products or People categories brands, however Facebook has said they hope to expand this functionality to more Page categories over time. Read More
Want to find a way to get some traction for your latest marketing initiative or press release? If that’s what you need then it’s time to embrace social media – and there are some great tools out there to help you find journalists and sources and identify the people you want to connect with. Read More
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