Twitter Is The King of Social Sharing. Anyone Seen Digg?

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Twitter Is The King of Social Sharing. Anyone Seen Digg?

Twitter is the king of social media sharingWhen you like this post, you’re most likely going to share it on Twitter. At least that’s what the results of a recent study have shown.

Taking a look at the top 100 blogs, and the options that they have for sharing their articles across Social Media, Twitter is far and away the winning option. In fact, 66 of the top 100 blogs have a dedicated Twitter sharing button.

Facebook sharing shows itself as the second most popular option, with 58 of 100. Though that 58 is also tied with a general sharing option that allows the reader to share on their network of choice.

As for Digg? The dethroned king sits at a paltry 49% showing. Not so great news for the site that once served as the holy grail of Social Media sharing.

However, even Digg looks shiny and new in comparison to Google’s Buzz. Buzz buttons only showed up on 6 of the top 100 blogs, and users tend to share less through Buzz than any other format.

Twitter Is The King of Social Sharing. Anyone Seen Digg?


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Foursquare Will Get 1 Million Users Faster Than Twitter Did

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Foursquare will have 1 million members signed up in the next couple of weeks says CEO Dennis Crowley in a chat with the WSJ.

Earlier this week, the company's official Twitter account suggested it would hit that milestone pretty soon.

Foursquare has been around for just over a year, which means its growth compares favorably to Twitter which took approximately two years to reach 1 million users.

Foursquare's impressive growth helps explain why VCs are tripping over themselves to lead the next round of funding for Foursquare.

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Facebook Goes from Fan to Like

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By Erik Qualman

facebook become a fanIn a recent decision, Facebook users will no longer be able to click a “Become a Fan” button for a page or brand, rather they will click “like” button for a brand or page.  My opinion is that there are 3 reasons for this change:

1. Increased consistency and simplicity of Facebook terminology for its users.

2. Facebook has determined that “like” is more clicked on than “become a fan” of this page or brand.  This is important because once Facebook launched the capability for advertisers to include a clickable button on their paid Facebook ads stating “become a fan” and that this button was also trackable for the client; Facebook paid ads are often judged on how many fans they receive for how much money was being spent.  Obviously it’s in Facebook’s best interest for ads to perform well, so if the barrier to clicking is mitigated by switching to “like” than it makes monetary sense for Facebook to do so.

3. Facebook is ready to launch the capability for users to click the “like” button when they aren’t on Facebook.  In other words if you are on www.gm.com or www.snickers.com you can click a button indicating that you “like” the page.  This helps expand Facebook’s influence beyond www.facebook.com and is also helpful to the user.

There are some distinct benefits in the above list and as a whole it’s the right move.  However, one thing that I will miss, as David Berkowitz astutely points out, is that it is nice for companies to have a sense to who their true fans/loyal customers are.  Although only a slight semantic change, ”like” reduces the barrier to entry.  Just think about your current behavior on status updates, isn’t it much easier to click “like” on a status update?  So, we should see an increase in the amount of people that “like” a brand/product/movie/church/etc. but it was nice that at one point in time we knew who the hardcore fans really were.  What do you think?

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How Adobe and Google Are Making Sure Flash Will Never Die [Flash]

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Rumors of a "deeper partnership" between Google and Adobe have come to pass: the Chrome browser will soon ship with Flash built in. No installation, no traditional plugins, no separate updates. It's just there, like, well, HTML5. This is cunning! More »


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Twitter Gets a New Homepage - It's a Whole Thing

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twitter_logo_dec09.jpgTwitter just launched an updated, more dynamic homepage. The old, static homepage that didn't really explain how Twitter really works and just showed a list of trending topic and a search form. The new homepage, on the other hand, features a scrolling list of trending topics, a constantly updating view of tweets from popular Twitter users, a random sampling of suggested users and a new explanation of what Twitter is.

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We have to say, though, that Twitter's new explanation of itself sounds a bit odd:

"Twitter is a rich source of instant information. Stay updated. Keep others updated. It's a whole thing. You choose and customize every aspect of the service. Lots of people like it. We'd love it if you joined us."

Interestingly, Twitter de-emphasizes the social networking features of the service here and stresses that Twitter is a source of "instant information." The old homepage simply said: "Share and discover what's happening right now, anywhere in the world." According to Twitter's own announcement, the company wants to stress that Twitter is "not just for status updates anymore"

The new homepage also now feature a link to Twitter's FAQ for business users.

A Better Homepage for Novice Users?

Given that Twitter has always had a hard time converting new users to regular users, this new homepage is clearly an attempt to better explain the service's features and functionality to new users. We will have to wait and see if this new homepage will do a better job at converting visitors to regular users.

The new explanation of Twitter on the homepage could surely use some tweaking, but the new focus on interesting tweets and users will immediately give newcomers a good idea of how they can use Twitter themselves.

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iPhone HD: The Next Generation iPhone? [RUMOR]

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Engadget has received reports that the next generation iPhone will be called the iPhone HD. This comes a day after The Wall Street Journal posited on some rumors suggesting that Apple will release two different iPhones this year.

While the continuing “will they/won’t they” saga of the CDMA iPhone is far from resolved (and even the Journal is now hedging on the date of a CDMA entry), the name iPhone HD might actually have some merit.

Yesterday, after The Wall Street Journal posted its story, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber dismissively responded to the report — pointing out that it was virtually substance-free in terms of details. He then went on to dispense some information he has heard about the next iPhone.

Namely that:

  • It will be based on the A4-family CPU system (meaning it would be part of the same CPU family as the iPad)
  • The resolution would be doubled to 960×640
  • It would sport a second front-facing camera
  • It would support third-party multitasking

Now, how many of these rumors are true is unknown — but Gruber has a pretty good track record when it comes to info like this. Further more, Gruber finds the HD moniker plausible, especially in light of the double resolution display.

Engadget also reports that the iPhone HD (or whatever it ends up being called), will be announced on Tuesday, June 22. Historically, this date falls in line with past iPhone release dates.

iPhone HD, eh? Are you in or out? Let us know in the comments!

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Stap in de trein om je virtuele goederen te verhandelen

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In de Nederlandse iPhone-game Merchant gebruik je je locatie voor het bouwen van virtuele nederzettingen en verhandelen van producten.

Merchant is sinds maandag beschikbaar in de App Store. Het spel is gemaakt door het Amsterdamse Oberon Interactive en is al flink getest in Amsterdam: er zijn nederzettingen gesticht en er wordt druk gehandeld in de virtuele goederen in het spel.

Merchant speel je tegen anderen via mobiel internet en het spel gebruikt je locatie op meerdere manieren. Doel is zoveel mogelijk punten te behalen en dat doe je door producten te produceren in nederzettingen of ze te verhandelen. Die nederzettingen kan je alleen bouwen op basis van je locatie. Het is dus verstandig nederzettingen neer te zetten op plekken waar je vaak komt.

De producten die de nederzettingen leveren kan je naar anderen plekken in het spel brengen door naar die locatie te gaan. De game heeft ook een virtuele markt voor kopen en verkopen van producten. Elke regio heeft eigen specialiteiten. Zalm is bijvoorbeeld in Amsterdam te koop, zwaarden in Maastricht. Reis je veel dan ben je in dit spel dus in het voordeel. Merchant is gratis verkrijgbaar, maar de pro-versie kost 2,39 euro en virtuele goederen kosten 0,79 euro.

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Talking about crowdsoursing -> Boom! Tweets & Maps Swarm to Pinpoint a Mysterious Explosion

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What would you do if you heard a giant boom and you didn't know where it came from? If you're like thousands of people in Portland, Oregon, you might hit Twitter and Google Maps to participate in the city-wide exploration of a slightly frightening mystery. Last night at about 8 p.m., people in a big part of the city felt their windows shake and no one could tell them what caused it.

Was it a sonic boom? An angry deity? Even the mayor himself tweeted this morning that he was looking into the sound. In the meantime, thousands of people were using the hashtag #pdxboom and adding themselves to a hastily configured Google Map showing where they lived and how loud the boom had been there. In just a few hours, a pattern emerged, with reports clustering around one city park. This morning the police found a detonated pipe bomb there and cited the Google Map in their announcement.

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Reid Beels is a designer, geo-developer and one of the community organizers of Portland's forthcoming conference Open Source Bridge ("The conference for open source citizens").

Beels says he was sitting in a restaurant in southeast Portland when he heard the boom, and saw tweets streaming in about it within minutes. He searched Twitter for "boom" and "explosion," limiting the results by location. Within five minutes, he says, a hashtag had emerged: #pdxboom.

What was the #pdxboom, people wanted to know? Some people said it sounded like thunder. Lots of people said it sounded like an empty trash Dumpster crashing on the ground. They mentioned their locations in their Tweets and Beels quickly grew frustrated that all this data was just streaming into the ether, lost from analysis.

So he threw up a Google Map with instructions to put a pin in your location and describe how the boom sounded to you.

Within an hour 100 people had placed pins on the map. Beels and developer Audrey Eschright came up with a color coded system to describe the intensity of the sound, and began retroactively coloring in pins based on any comments people left.

Then they found out that Google Maps will only display the 200 most recent pins placed in a public map. Beels' friend Aaron Parecki wrote a script to download the map's data every fifteen minutes. That came in handy when a few hours later someone vandalized the map by dragging a large number of markers outside the town. It was trivial to roll back to the last valid data.

Photo by Igal KoshevoyThe local TV news and the newspaper ran stories about the boom, and pointed their audiences to the Google Map. Thousands of people visited it, and just under 1,000 added a pin marking where they where and how loud the boom had sounded to them.

It became clear that the boom originated near the Sellwood Bridge; a big cluster of red markers surrounded the area, especially to the east. Thousands of people are still streaming in to look at the map; at the end of the day it's now approaching 70,000 views, even if the mystery, if not the crime, is solved.

Some people thought it was a precursor Earthquake Boom. (I woke up convinced my house was in an earthquake.) But the Portland police went to a park in the area most filled with red flags on the map and found a large detonated pipe bomb. A Portland police spokesperson said the maps and tweets were very helpful.

A topographic view of the map made some inclined to believe that cliffs across the river and low-hanging clouds combined to make the sound travel as far across the city and in the direction that it did.

That Was a Practice Run

Beels says two big lessons came out of the experience for him. First, the tools they used were easy and fast, but they were also quite limited. Google Maps in particular was capable of multi-user collaboration but did poorly when it came to displaying a large amount of data. As Eschright wrote after the action, "It's not the best platform for a couple hundred people, many without prior experience editing maps, to be using all at once."

Inspired by campaigns like CrisisCampPDX and the CrisisWiki, Beels says the community is interested in setting up an installation of open-source, crisis support software Ushahidi on standby in case a real crisis has to be dealt with.

Beels says he's inspired not just by what was done in this situation, but by what it revealed about the future. "The community of people who will search for things online and go out of their way to try to figure out what's going on," he says, "is larger than you might think."

Marshall Kirkpatrick is leading a webinar for Poynter's News University on Thursday about how location services are changing the news.

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