#social (267 links)
- Analysis: What are the Web's Top Sources of Referral Traffic? readwriteweb.com
Not totally convinced by the results shown here but potentially a useful starting point.
- Why Your Customers Don't Want to Talk to You - Matt Dixon and Lara Ponomareff - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review blogs.hbr.org
Most customers these days demonstrate a huge — and increasing — appetite for self-service, yet most companies run their operations as if customers prefer to interact with them live.
Despite marketers' embrace of the medium, brands are finding themselves on the outside of the conversation. Of the 90% of Twitter messages sent by real people -- the other 10% come from businesses -- only 12% ever mention a brand, and most of those mentions are of Twitter itself. Further, only 1% of consumer tweets that mention a brand are part of an active conversation with that brand, meaning marketers are, for the most part, conducting one-way conversations -- the opposite of the way consumers often use Twitter.
- Display your foursquare checkins on Google Maps the easy way aboutfoursquare.com
Basically paste your KML feed into the Google Maps search box.
- Poyozo | Make Life Make Sense mypoyozo.com
An automatic, personal diary system to help reclaim and consolidate your ever-expanding digital life with simple visualizations that you can use every day.
- Online Database of Social Media Policies socialmediagovernance.com
- Foursquare Badges thekruser.com
Reference. Refusal to actively compete/collect.
- Facebook | Advertising facebook.com
- Eddy eddy.stamen.com
A media aggregation platform built for the public display of up-to-the-minute activity on realtime services like Twitter.
- Facebook Allowed Automatic Data Sharing Last November | Social Hacking theharmonyguy.com
The current Facebook privacy policy already allows your “publicly available information,” which includes your name, gender, geographic region, friends list, fan pages, and your content marked “everyone,” to be automatically shared with external web sites when you visit them. The only thing apparently preventing this from happening right now is technology – Facebook has not yet rolled out an official means for Facebook Connect sites to automatically access such data. Apparently they soon plan on adding that technology for certain “pre-approved” sites, an update which the newer governing documents make more explicit.
- afeeld » Cultivated Play: Farmville reddyeno5.com
This is brilliant. But argh, Farmville. "The secret to Farmville’s popularity is neither gameplay nor aesthetics. Farmville is popular because in entangles users in a web of social obligations. When users log into Facebook, they are reminded that their neighbors have sent them gifts, posted bonuses on their walls, and helped with each others’ farms. In turn, they are obligated to return the courtesies. As the French sociologist Marcel Mauss tells us, gifts are never free: they bind the giver and receiver in a loop of reciprocity. It is rude to refuse a gift, and ruder still to not return the kindness."
- Flightless Travel - Overland Travel, Real Travel, Alternative Travel, Slow Travel, Fear of Flying, Grounded Travel flightlesstravel.com
A unique social networking website dedicated to travel overland and water by any means possible.
I sort of hate the fact that I'm saving this. It is useful, though.
The general rule of thumb is – if you don’t actually need to use any scripted languages like PHP or ASP, and you don’t need to access the API to get the user’s information for any reason, you probably don’t actually need an application.
- Fan Box - Facebook Developer Wiki wiki.developers.facebook.com
Info on the new(ish) embeddable Fan Box for Facebook Pages.
- Why social matters – Blog – BERG berglondon.com
Social capital is an abstract measure that wraps up how many people you know, the information flow in your network, how many people owe you favours, that kind of thing.
The acrimonious split follows unsatisfactory negotiations which could have given Freecycle's UK moderators the ability to localise their web pages and allow them to serve the community better [...] The UK is probably the most enthusiastic Freecycling country in the world, hosting just 10% of all the branches but handling 27% of all Freecycling activities.
- Image Spark imgspark.com
Discover, share, tag and converge images that inspire you and your work
"Well, they suck." Yes, they do.
- feedly: a magazine-like start page feedly.com
feedly weaves your favorite content into a fun, magazine-like start page. based on Google Reader and Twitter.
- Share Spotify Playlists at ShareMyPlaylists.com sharemyplaylists.com
Share your Spotify playlists with the world and discover new music
- Tools of Engagement: The New Practice of User-Centered Design, by Robert Fabricant - Core77 core77.com
We have been operating under the assumption that the primary challenge is to convince businesses to focus on fulfilling user needs with higher quality products, with more meaningful experiences. But what if the 'users' themselves are the problem? What if users represent not a coherent set of needs but a messy mix of desires and influences? What, ultimately, is the role of the designer in sorting through these desires to determine which should drive our design decisions? And what frameworks, other than intuition, should we use to make these judgments?
- The Prototype Experience prototype-experience.com
- Twitter Promotion Done Right: #moonfruit mashable.com
That's a matter of opinion. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
- Shownar shownar.com
Tracks the online buzz around BBC shows. It's an experimental prototype.
- ShiftSpace | An open source layer above any webpage shiftspace.org
An open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web.
- Rypple - A little feedback goes a long way rypple.com
Handy-looking feedback tool.
- Mindshare Report - Executive Summary - Social Media Academy slideshare.net
I hate the word "mindshare".
- Report Paints a Painful View of Ad Agencies « FUEL LINES Fueling Ad Agency New Business Through Social Media fuelingnewbusiness.com
"Forrester Research believes today’s ad agencies are not well-structured to take on tomorrow’s marketing challenges, needing to move from making messages to establishing community connections." What, really?
- Six goals for your social media strategy | citizensound citizensound.net
Centered around music.
- GigPark gigpark.com
Discover the trusted service people your friends use
- MusicTwitters musictwitters.com
DrownedinSound.com explored Twitter and compiled this site to help you to see at a glance music on the Twittersphere.
- Trendrr - Track Compare Share trendrr.com
- The Social Web Analytics eBook socialwebanalytics.com
- Twist - see trends in twitter twist.flaptor.com
- del.icio.us network explorer twoantennas.com
- Online Reputation Management: 16 Free Tools | Sitepoint sitepoint.com
- The 6 Dangerous Fallacies of Social Media | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting - Convince & Convert convinceandconvert.com
Inexpensive, fast, viral, unmeasurable, optional.
A simple way to discover events people are chattering about on Twitter.
spy can listen in on the social media conversations you're interested in.