While you were sleeping: hijacked Twitter feed
UPDATE – So a day later and Mark Davidson has still not taken control of his Twitter account.
Another series of tweets have appeared from the rogue ghost Twitter writer who appears to have posted an ad for a new ghost writer and another saying another of his ghost writers have quit. Read more »
Like button: will it soon have companions?
As if it’s not enough that Facebook has documented every time over the past four years that you’ve drunkenly commented on someone’s photos or ill-advisedly ‘got something off your chest’ in the form of a status update – now it is also going to make a record of your sins of omission.
Yes, according to a Techcrunch report, Facebook is planning to launch buttons to indicated that you’ve read or watched something online – and, by definition, what you’ve not bothered to read.
Lift: reward-based self-improvement system
Some information about the next venture by Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams have emerged, and although detail is scant, it is very intriguing.
Dubbed ‘Lift’, at the moment we are being told that it is a prototype relating to how ‘technology can help unlock human potential, especially through the use of positive reinforcement’.
CityJet: droll response
All respect for whoever runs job CityJet’s Twitter feed, and their rather elegant response to the news that French actor Gerard Depardieu has trouble holding things in.
Depardieu was on one of CityJet’s flights earlier this week when, according to another passenger, he announced to everyone in hearing distance that ‘I need a piss’.
Visualize.me: you as an infographic
If you’re looking for jobs in social media/new media/any visually-oriented type industries, you might be interested in a start up company that transforms CVs into infographics.
Currently in private beta mode, Visualize.Me links up with LinkedIn to turn the information that you’ve carefully provided into an infographic of your career history. Your previous jobs and education are turned into a timeline; your skills a represented in pie-charts or other formations; and if you’ve notched up any recommendations from other LinkedIn users, they’re represented in quote boxes.
Resonate: research questions value of 'heavy' social media users
People who use social media the most are less involved in the outside world and might not be as worthwhile targeting as marketers believe, new research indicates.
Resonate, which specializes in online audience targeting, has found that heavy social media users are less likely to be involved in politics; less likely to donate to charity; and less likely to do online shopping, not spending as much as other groups when they do.
Heello: only a Twitter competitor 'in some ways', apparently
Have you ever thought that it would be great if there were some sort of a website where you could type short messages – sort of like really tiny blogs – and maybe attach a photo or a video and then share these messages with friends and other people.
Well look no further than Heello – a new website that has been launched by Noah Everett, who is also behind the Twitpic service.
uSocial: one of the companies charging to boost follower numbers
Following questions over the veracity of Newt Gingrich’s 1.3 million follower count on Twitter, the redoubtable American institution NPR has investigated the practice of buying Twitter followers.
(We should point out that a spokesman for Gingrich has denied that he has paid for Twitter followers (instead explaining that his follower count grew after the Republican was added to Twitter’s suggested users list).)
Jesus Daily: followers love it
Justin Bieber might be king of Twitter but when it comes to engaged Facebook fans, he is pipped to the post by none other than Jesus.
According to the All Facebook blog, the world’s most engaged Facebook page – a measure based on ‘likes’, ‘shares’ and comments – is a page called Jesus Daily.
My Name Is Me: campaigning for policy change
Do you feel your rights are infringed by not being able to sign up to Facebook or Google+ using a pseudonym?
I didn’t know it was an issue, but a group is campaigning to get these social networks to change their registration policies so that people can use whatever identity they choose.
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