Today I came across an interesting infographic. It visualizes the statistics that “make up” a gamer, collected from a variety of sources. Nice visualization. Nice statistics. Check out the image below (originally found here).
I recently dipped my toes into Empire Exchange, which touts itself as a “social media exchange.” Essentially, it’s a virtual stock market where you can buy and sell people. Empire Exchange is, in their own words: Empire Avenue is the Social Media Exchange, where you can buy and sell shares in any social media profile, [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. The Guy Who Says He Owns 50% Of Facebook Just Filed A Boatload Of New Evidence — And It’s Breathtaking by Henry Blodget, Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-lawsuit-paul-ceglia-new-evidence-2011-4 Trouble @ Twitter by Jessi Hempel, Fortune tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/14/troubletwitter/ How Paywalls Are Changing News Organizations’ Social Media Strategies by Meghan [...]
GetGlue has announced that they have now reached the one million user milestone, and released some data in the form of an infographic (see below). One million users is great, and not an simple task to reach, but what interests me most are the shares. Just look at how many tweets around television shows are [...]
I recently came across some great applications of a developer API, and began to wonder why people/agencies don’t take advantage of APIs more often. Two of the more recent items I saw were Instaprint (from the great forward thinking Brooklyn digital shop Breakfast), and Postagram. Instaprint allows you to print your Instagram photos from an [...]
I’ve noticed that a lot of the traffic that comes here, is focused are Foursquare questions. The most phrases appearing the most are usually something like “how can I cheat at Foursquare?” or “Can I check in at home?” This probably has to do with some of my previous posts. Since this is how a [...]
Last night, indie rock band Death Cab for Cute shot a video for their song You Are a tourist, off of their upcoming album. What’s interesting about it though is that they recorded the video in one take…and streamed it live on Ustream. This is a great example of showcasing new ways artists can reach [...]
Each week I like to do a roundup of five article. There is no ranking and no “most important” articles, they are just five that I picked that I think would be interesting or informative to others. Normally I do this on a Sunday but wasn’t able to do so this week. There was however, [...]
A roundup of online activity, mainly focusing on marketing, communications, social media, entertainment and more.