Social Hallucinations

The World Map of Social Networks

Le Monde published the map of the most popular social networks across the world. It shows clearly human preferences vary a lot from country to country. North Europe goes for Facebook while South Europe fell in love with MySpace. Can it be something in design? :-)




Hat tip to Amelia for this one.

Tags: social networks

Get Some Beat, Boy

This is great site from Tele2 in Sweden - cute dog and funky beats. It's a lot of fun mixing your own beat track with Tele2 beatbox.



or listen to the beat track I composed...woof, woof

Tags: advertising, beatbox, Tele2

Worker's Plea - The Basics of Relationships at Job

This is something basic and simple. This is something obvious. This is something we should stick to no matter whether we are employers or employees. Those 5 rules describe the relationship between people on the office ground.



Thanks to Adliterate.

Tags: work, career

Interesting Links & Ads and a Quote

The Advertiser Addictionary
Learn what SINK is. Funny and creative definitions of marketing jargon.

Social Media Super List
For overview and inspiration

The Ultimate Guide To Networking With Bloggers
How to make a great impression, and create an amazing relationship with a blogger. My idea would be to never forget that bloggers are people.

Promoting Gmail in Russia - advertising
It gives quite a feeling of what beta is.



Google Hot Trends
An hourly update of the most Googled terms.

Forget PowerPoint: 13 Online Presentation Apps
Don't need to add anything

And great quote for this week:
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most" (Mark Twain)

Tags: links, advertising, trends, google, social media, bloggers

Hypes Don't Last Forever - Facebook in Decline

The last week brought some big news "Facebook Falters In Europe" according to the latest traffic data (Nielsen)

- UK: 8.5 million unique users in Britain spent time on Facebook in January, down from 8.9 million in December
- France: 1.87 million unique users in January, down from 1.89 million in December
- Spain:  659.000 unique users in January, down from 682.000

According to comScore, Facebook levels off in USA and keeps on growing worldwide.

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We are talking about decline that is the consequence of the "friendly spam" deflouring Facebook and privacy issues. The European decline is also the sign for the stabilization of the hype that was created around Facebook. We are living in times where online and social services and brands take off primarily due to hypes created by easily influenced people influencing other easily influenced people and generate interest -> traffic. At some point it gets stabilized, people get bored, seek for something new, they want  the new hype, the new stimuli. 

"A lot of people who jumped onto Facebook over the past year and built up their friends and used applications are tiring of it," said Alex Burmaster from Nielsen "The aura has worn off a bit."

Via Techcrunch & Guardian

Tags: Facebook, social networks, social media, traffic

Humans and Forms

A person never express himself directly and accordingly to his nature. A person use always forms and behaviour patterns that are determined by his environment and significant others. His behaviour and choices depend on other people. A person hunts the form to define himself and to adjust himself to environment. We define ourselves through form. This is everyday theater where our roles are defined by form. Liquid form.

iPhones Make People Google

"We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again," said Vic Gundotra of Google’s mobile operations.

Google reported that Apple's iPhones generate 50 times more Google searches than any other mobile handset.

Via MarketingVox




Tags: iphone, google, search

Who's Clicking on Your Banner Ads?

According to a new study released by Starcom MediaVest Group there aren't many who click on banner ads. So called heavy clickers have huge influence on the picture - 6% of people online account for 50% of display ad clicks.

"Heavy clickers skew towards Internet users between the ages of 25-44 and households with an income under $40,000. Heavy clickers behave very differently online than the typical Internet user, and while they spend four times more time online than non-clickers, their spending does not proportionately reflect this very heavy Internet usage. Heavy clickers are also relatively more likely to visit auctions, gambling, and career services sites – a markedly different surfing pattern than non-clickers.”

What makes people click actually? The urge, the need or maybe just a curiosity. There must be a strong message and reason to evoke clicking reaction. It seems like we have some online human type that loves clicking probably for clicking sake and profound curiosity what's behind.

Tags: Internet, clicks, StarcomMediaVest

What Women Want ...

...from Internet

"Last year, "women's community" was the most visited and fastest growing Internet category, tied with politics, according to a ComScore Media Metrix year-end report. The number of unique visits to women's community sites jumped 35% to almost 70 million from 52 million."

Read more on AdAge to discover what women actually seek online?

Tags: Internet, Women, Communities

History 2.0

I have always loved history. It is something fascinating in making the sense out of past events and finding out how those have defined nations and societies. History - the true discourse of the past, that takes past to explain present and get a slight understanding of future. Our history is something that shapes us not only as nations but also as individuals. It is a part of our "we consciousness".
That history is changing today - it becomes personalized. The stories about big events are told through the eyes of real people. Events have no longer an effect on humanity, events influence life of Alice and John.
We save and distribute our history online. In pictures and videos.



Like ERA project, that is online space with individual stories of people who stood up against terror and humiliation of fascism during WWII. The stories told by people who experienced Holocaust are very important in XXI century when increasing number of people denies Holocaust took place and WWII seems like a kind of fantasy for today's teenagers. "The protagonists and eyewitnesses will disappear in the next years. Soon, there will be no other testimonies of the happenings apart from those having been collected, recorded, recounted and written down. The value of eyewitness interviews is unique. No book or film can replace the opportunity of watching eyewitnesses tell their stories of resistance and independent decision to do so."

Or like this 10 minutes video from YouTube that tells the Polish history.



There is also vast amounts of personal stories created and saved online. We save our histories in pictures, on blogs and forums. We create not only the collective picture of history, but we also save the history of our times for the future generations in form of our experiences, emotions, not just numbers and dates.  History becomes open to amateurs and it gets additional dimension - emotional. It gets it closest ever to other disciplines as sociology and philosophy and moves it always from historiography approach based on dry facts and dates.

We share, store out stories of the big events. Like April 16th archive documenting tragic events on the Virginia Tech tragedy of April 16, 2007.



We get even more personal by passion on our everyday stories in blogs and collective projects like those projects from UK: History Matters, Pass it On and Your History Here.

Or Yahoo's Time Capsule that is going to reopen in 2020 and reply all submissions it get from people all over the world.

We create the new Youniverse history facilitated by multimedia and Internet. We become ubiquitous and available 24/7. We share our knowledge about history and our personal histories via our networks and communities, demonstrating history is a story tale of herd. The question is, will the history saved on fiber connections survive? Will it be passed on as a immortal meme through new connections driven by links as a new form of story telling?

   

"Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs" (David Ben Gurion)

Inspired by Historia & Media

Tags: history, sociology, meme, Youniverse