Facebook baned photos posted by a woman who had surgery for breast cancer. The wide protest action started soon. Watch the MSNBC report:

Paulius

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.

Till 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?

I 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

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.

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.

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

Today is an historical day. Wall Street Journal anounced the rules, how its staff may act on social media websites.  You may read them in Reader & Publisher. The result is typical to the point of view of large organisation, which is conducted by the guys who  have never seen Twitter or Facebook. It remembers my working days in one of the largest universities in Lithuania. It was hard to make any intelligent move in making things better, more professional or just fresh.

Wall Street Journal is going on the way of restriction. I hope they have strong assumptions for their position.

Paulius

Stweet is a wonderful mashup of Google Street View and Twitter. You may follow tweets choosing a street from different towns. Pete Cashmore from Mashabe asked a good question: “Do I want the world to know what street I’m on?“. Despite any doubts the idea is very interesting.

Paulius

One day I have found an article about Twitter social studies. Twitter was indicated as doubtfully social network, because of some reasons:
1.Users don’t mind not getting responses.
2.They don’t mind if they tweet and no one responds.
3.The information respondents wanted was timely, pertinent and informational.

This means that the main goal of twittering is information, not social relations. Isn’t this true? Won’t we return back to Web 1.0 era with Twitter?

Jonas

Do you remember the Flutter presentation? The world really “goes micro” as was nicely said by Jonas a week ago.

Microblogging became in some way oldfashioned thing after the appearance of Flutter. It is a new generation of micro status update. The new name given by creators is – nanoblog. Smaller than Twitter, shorter than Twitter, quicker than Twitter. Better than Twiiter? Maybe. Has this question any sense at all?

Flutter has one good feature – auto shortening of Twitter tweets. Kind of inovation of the year 2009!

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There is a lot irony behind the Flutter. There is no real Flutter. It was just a video made to improvise the future of status update applications.  But the guys who made it are very smart people. Who could even imagine about Twitter  and its popularity a few years ago? Now Twitter breaks the walls carrying together all critics and indifferent humans.

For my opinion Twitter and Flutter have no fundamental difference. The only thing separating them is that Twitter exists and Flutter not.

We have short messages, instant messages, microblogging, 12 seconds of microvideo blogging in Tweetdeck, picture blogging, so why not to shorten a bit our text messages. Text becomes more boring every day. So it would be nice to have an application transfering text to a symbolic photo or picture. Or just talk less as Flutter offers. What will be the objects for exchange and for share after non-existent Flutter?

Maybe, we will have kind of Egyptian scripts or writings of Maya. A small picture will mean even a short story or explain many social things about the messenger. We won’t need details and a lot of side explanations.  We will simlify our language in needs to talk more and faster. I imagine many symbolic pictures surrounding our walls, desktops and first page of Google. Maybe one billion of Chinese people will help us enter the next level of communication.