Archive for May, 2009

Biomapping – the Way We Go

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Today I’ll write you some words about an interesting project called Bio Mapping. The goal of this project is to track and analyze people behavior. Tracking is being made by watching people behavior in several cities.

logoTill now 1500 project participants are wearing innovative device called Galvanic Skin Response (GSR). This device fixes geographical location and people emotions associated with the location. The result of exploration is printed on emotions maps. For example, here is San Francisco emotion map.

Using such data you can find the most emotional and the most inspiring places people like to go. The application goal looks very similar to Google Analytics statistics in the internet, but Biomapping is the real world application.

Some scientists say that till 2012 each American will have about 10 wireless sensors. Maybe the future is not so far away from today?

Mashable about Susan Boyle

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

mashable_logo2I got angry today once again. I got angry too often. Mashable added a post about Susan Boyle’s final performance in Britains Got Talent 2009.  A post had no cultural, social or at least (!) internet networking analysis. As I understand, It was anounced just for fun, just for tags, just to be along with the “fresh” information. Be patient, and watch the video to see how is it fresh. I won’t embed Susan’s video to our blog.

People themselves make the phenomenon out of nothing. Not PR or promotion companies. While people talk – phenomenon exists. People stop gossiping – phenomenon dies. Mashable is still concerned.

“All That’s New on the Web” – the word “all” is one of the worst words talking about any business. Not all things are really topical, not all things are really important, not all things have to be discussed.

Paulius

Google Zeitgeist Europe 2009

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Google has organized an interesting event called Zeitgeist in London, dedicated to explore people creativity, today’s brand evolution etc. Live session was recorded and placed on Youtube, where four interesting persons speak about their carrier, time and life.

Jonas

“OMG I just got over 1000 followers today from Twittercut”

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

twitter“OMG I just got over 1000 followers today from Twittercut” – hundreds of users posted this message recently in Twitter (along with a link to the particular site). Actually, it was a type of scam.

The scheme was as follows:

1. You click the link in the message.

2. Then you enter your Twitter username and password on the landing page.

3. At last you find your own account posting this spam message.

4. “How to reach “1000 followers”?” is in your mind again.

Paulius

Are Web 2.0 Paper Books Really About Modern Web?

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

strategy bookIs it possible to write a modern book about quickly evolving web ? I say – no. Books now are more about archiving, saving information facts than about spreading new ideas. So, can you write a brand new web 2.0 strategy guide ? Some can.

But won’t it be outdated at the end of this year ?

Jonas

Twitter on TV

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

twitterAn information just good for tweet: Twitter is going to have its own show on TV. It is known very few things about the project, so the way is open for imagination. But the fact is quite paradoxical – the media of the fastest exchange of information (Twitter) moves to “slower” media (TV). Read more at Variety.

New Advertising Media

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Internet businessmen are bored by sales through standard PPC services. They start searching for new devices or even for a new type of ad content efficiently delivered to user.

iphoneI saw several future possibilities after analyzing emarketer’s article:

1. New type of ads may  be short and contextual in SMS, MMS ad form. I imagine they could look like shorten links (bit.ly etc.) at the footer of a message. Network service provider could offer discount for users using these links.

2. Mobile radio – very interesting and fresh solution. Podcasts on demand and ubiquitous file sharing are services which can be more adapted to share ads.

3. New gadgets support. When a new network device has no ad support the first adds it the first wins. E.g. iPhone.

Jonas

How to Reach the Front Page of Digg?

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

If you want to reach the front page of Digg, you have to follow just ONE simple rule:

1. You have to be strong enough.

You just have to know, that 46% of the Digg front page is controlled by only 50 websites. You must have strong company, strong command of people, genious marketing plan to break the walls in social media or to be kind of hacker (smart enough) knowing technologies of climbing into the top of “digging” sites.

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Even Weak Content May Become Strong

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Before we started any web social project we usually used to evaluate web market. But mostly you can’t predict the exact type of content and the exact keywords that will bring visitors to you. It’s interesting, because when you start business you usually have a real plan. Here in the internet you can plan only some simple jobs for a short period.

weak-contentEven not the strongest content can bring visitors to you. For example, Tara shows how she have got attention on Twitter .

Also our brand new website www.cometos.com gets interesting results. Recently keywords “twitter jokes” result lots of visitors landing on our blog. We didn’t expect this, but we feel happy about it.

Social networks reflect human-like communications. The most important thing is not to stop talking and posting : )

Jonas

Basic Definitions of Social Media

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Basic Definitions of Social Media. Watch and then don’t forget to imagine, that these kids in the video may be your kids: so smart, so clever, so intelligent: