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Anna’s Social Media Picks of the Week (01/14/11)

Friday, January 14th, 2011

The following stories topped my list as the most important social media news of the week:

Verizon iPhone Announced:

Many AT&T haters/iPhone lovers have been hoping, speculating, and anxiously waiting for the Verizon iPhone announcement. At a Verizon press event on Tuesday, the Verizon iPhone was finally announced. The details:

  • The iPhone 4 will be available through Verizon on February 10, 2010 (available for preorder online on or around February 3rd)
  • The iPhone 4 will cost $199.99 for the 16GB model, and $299.99 for the 32GB model with a new two-year service contract.
  • A feature AT&T doesn’t offer: The Verizon iPhone 4 will support personal hotspot services, allowing up to five devices to share the iPhone’s 3G data connection.
  • For those who can wait: The Verizon iPhone 5 is expected to be released in July.

Foursquare Launches New Business Pages:

Foursquare has created a new area on their site called Foursquare for Business. Foursquare for Business is dedicated to teaching business users how to get started, claim a venue, and make the most of Foursquare. This section also encourages businesses to offer specials for users and/or mayors. On Thursday, Foursquare launched an Ambassador Card Program to recruit more businesses.

Jeff (@JeffKelleyRVA) and Dean (@Dbrowell) got to take a tour of the new Tumblr office.

Tumblr Opens Up Shop in RVA:

This week, popular blog platform Tumblr opened the doors to their new office in Richmond, Virginia. Headquartered in NYC, Tumblr chose Richmond for their second office location. President John Maloney and Creator/Product Director David Karp came to town for the opening. Last night, Tumblr hosted a meet and greet close to their new digs at Legend Brewing Company. The event was packed full of people welcoming Tumblr to town.

MySpace Downsizes:

MySpace downsized by 47% this week.  500 some jobs out the door. As USA Today explained,

“The rapid rise and fall of MySpace underscores a classic cautionary tale in the tech industry: The high-flying startup that comes crashing down to Earth when the next big thing — in this case, Facebook — comes along.”

It appears that parent company NewsCorp may be looking to sell.  MySpace CEO Mike Jones put out a statement, which included “Today’s tough but necessary changes were taken in order to provide the company with a clear path for sustained growth and profitability.”

NewsIe In Beta Testing:

A new social media platform, NewsIe, launched (for beta testing only) this week. The concept: social news. Social news on Twitter and Facebook normally involves friends sharing news and blogs they’re interested in. With NewsIe, you choose the people you’re interested in and get news and blogs about them. You start by importing your Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn friends and selecting famous actors, musicians, politicians, and business people you’d like to follow. Then, NewsIe will provide real time news and blogs mentioning those people.

-Anna (@alucas9)

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A Cool Idea, Born out of Social Media

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Here in Richmond, the social community is all a-Twitter (see what we did there?) with buzz about the new Richmond Type Map. Local graphic designer Carrie Fleck spent more than 100 hours creating a map of our great city using nothing but letters.

A map of Richmond, made entirely from type.

She may have never done it, though, were it not for the online community: A Richmond Twitter user found a link to a typographic map of Chicago made by a company called Axis Maps, then shared it with the Richmond Twittersphere. Then the gauntlet was laid down: “Can someone make this for Richmond?”

Fleck saw the tweets and desire for Richmonders to have their own version. “I thought I’d give it a shot,” she said. The project has since received immense support from the local online community and regional advertising industry insiders.

The maps (which contain 533 layers of type for you design nerds) went on sale this week at www.RichmondTypeMap.com. They’re $40, with $5 going to local nonprofit group Art 180 for each print sold before Christmas. They are going fast.

“It was a huge undertaking and the attention to detail was enough to drive me insane,” Fleck said. “But I am super proud of how this turned out, and hope Richmonders feel the same way.”

At Feedback, we definitely do. We’ve already ordered a half dozen.

-Jeff (@jephkelley)

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Anna’s Social Media Picks of the Week (12/10/10)

Friday, December 10th, 2010

Do you have time to search the web everyday to find the newest social media tools and trends? If the answer is no, then you have come to the right place. I have searched the internets for social media information all week, and stumbled upon a few favorites along the way. Here are my picks of the week:

New Facebook Profiles:

Facebook profiles got a makeover this week. Profiles now include a snapshot with a brief summary of who you are and recent photos. You also now have the option to highlight your interests, give a more complete picture of how you spend your time, as well as highlight your closest Facebook friends. For more information, click here.

Tumblr Took a Tumble:

This week, Tumblr went down for over 24 hours. Planned maintenance on Sunday unintentionally brought the entire network down. A very apologetic blog post from Tumblr staff stated “Frankly, keeping up with growth has presented more work than our small team was prepared for — with traffic now climbing more than 500M pageviews each month. But we are determined and focused on bringing our infrastructure well ahead of capacity as quickly as possible.”

Google’s Most Searched of 2010:

This week, Google released their Search Zeitgeist for 2010, which highlighted the most popular search terms during the year. So what did the world Google? As Mashable explained,

“Chatroulette, the iPad  and Justin Bieber were the three fastest-rising search terms in 2010; Twitter and Facebook also made the list, at numbers eight and 10, respectively.”

New search terms that made the list were Haiti, Chile, “earthquake”, Lady Gaga and the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. Other top searches included world cup, iPhone 4, and Olympics. For a full list, go here.

World Map of Social Networks – December 2010:

Vincenzo Cosenza’s latest world map of social networks is out. Trends for web traffic data from Alexa and Google during the month were mapped out. The map shows that Facebook is ever increasing in their dominance. Other social networks on the rise include LinkedIn and Twitter.

Meme of the Week:

(Note: I am including this because I am a geek about my town and who knows when the next viral video will come from #RVA.) What started as a local YouTube video has turned into a national viral video. Last weekend at a Christmas parade in Richmond, Virginia, a Rudolph float went down after being punctured by a stoplight. It is hilarious.. er.. I mean tragic. The video now has over 500,000 views, and has been featured on The Today Show, Jimmey Kimmel, Tosh.0, Perez Hilton, Metro, and more.

-Anna (@alucas9)
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On Geolocation: Excerpt from GRID Magazine

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

From Richmond GRID (@richmondGrid), Autumn Issue:

Excerpt below from a feature on geolocation apps, popularity and more from Feedback, Inc’s Dean Browell (@dbrowell).


So who’s in your pocket these days – Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, Facebook Places, or other?  Why one over the other?

I’m partial to Foursquare, interested in ShopKick, find Yelp helpful and will try anything.  Just watching the landscape.

So what’s the deal with Facebook Places?  Plan to use it, screw it, or could you care less about those knuckleheads in Palo Alto.

It’s important to not get distracted by just the check-in aspect.  Geo-location and even Facebook Places‘ role in it will be just as important for what it does for any of the 500 million + average users who never check in but nevertheless ends up impacted by the check-in data of others, such as choosing a restaurant or hospital based on who has been there or seeking the testimonial of a friend who they’ve seen has been there.

Who do you hope prevails in the geo wars?

For Foursquare and all the more geo-dedicated apps, there’s a long and storied history of innovating specialists having a place in the discerning consumer’s mind.  Just ask Apple or the entire craft brewing industry.

If you were sitting in the captain’s chair over at Foursquare or Gowalla, what would you say to Zuck?

“You were supposed to just take Microsoft’s money.”

Read the full article here…

Find more Feedback thoughts on Geolocation here…

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