The document discusses various aspects of digital marketing and social media. It provides information on topics like virtual worlds, flash mobbing, group buying, daily deal sites like Groupon, Facebook deals and apps, protecting brands online, social media monitoring tools, Facebook advertising and targeting, Google+, Pinterest, and Pinterest clones. Screenshots are included from various company pages on social networks. Tips are provided on using different social platforms for business purposes.
52. How to get banned for the top 5
social network …
53. How to get banned for the top 5
social network …
• Pinterest
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Google Plus
• Facebook
http://pinterest.com/about/terms
http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=user_agreement
https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311-the-twitter-rules
http://www.google.com/+/policy/content.html
https://www.facebook.com/page_guidelines.php
96. The Challenge for your
Facebook Ads…
• With Google Search - for adverts to be effective they need to be highly relevant, and
will usually have to have a compelling call-to-action.
• On Facebook you still need a great call-to-action however there is a huge difference –
on Google users search for something and are provided with relevant ads – on
Facebook users are typically there to check on their social life – so an element of
disruption is involved! Your Facebook adverts need to be louder, grab attention and
make the user change their course of action to pay attention to your adverts! – this is
tricky !
109. About Edgerank …
Q: What is an Edge?
A: An Edge is basically everything that "happens" in
Facebook. Examples of Edges would be status updates,
comments, likes, and shares.
About The Edgerank Algorithm
• This algorithm can be understood as: the sum of Edges,
each Edge is made up of Affinity, Weight, and Time
Decay.
• This may sound complicated at first, but when you begin
to understand the underlying concept, it's actually a
simple and effective algorithm.
110. Edgerank Factors definitions ..
• Affinity is a one-way relationship between a User and an Edge. It could be understood as how
close of a "relationship" a Brand and a Fan may have. Affinity is built by repeat interactions with a
Brand's Edges.Actions such as Commenting, Liking, Sharing, Clicking, and even Messaging can
influence a User's Affinity.
• Weight is a value system created by Facebook to increase/decrease the value of certain actions
within Facebook. Commenting is more involved and therefore deemed more valuable than a Like.
In the weighting system, Comments would have a higher value than a Like. In this system all
Edges are assigned a value chosen by Facebook. As a general rule, it's best to assume Edges
that take the most time to accomplish tend to weigh more.
• Time Decay refers to how long the Edge has been alive; the older it is the less valuable it
is. Time Decay is the easiest of the variables to understand. Mathematically it is understood as 1/
(Time Since Action). As an Edge ages, it loses value. This helps keep the News Feed fresh with
interesting new content, as opposed to lingering old content.
111. Edgerank Tips…
• A typical Facebook post reaches about 17% of
your fan base
• The average life of a Facebook post is about
three hours
• Comments carry more weight than likes
• Photos and call-to-action status updates are
more valuable than third party links
• Facebook analyzes relationships too, so it is
more likely you will have a higher affinity to
your cousin on Facebook
112. How to get more “Likes”
1. Put your Facebook on all your communications.
2. Offer an incentive of some kind to get Facebook Fans.
3. Communicate like a person.
4. Ask questions, encourage feedback.
5. Put up stuff when it is relevant or interesting to your audience.
6. Have contests.
7. Get your current fans to attract other fans.
8. Use applications to attract people with quizzes and other
interesting ways of engaging people.
9. Don’t give up.
124. Google Plus launches vanity URL
Starts to roll out in August 2012 …
Will look like
https://plus.google.com/+hughjackman
https://plus.google.com/+britneyspears
https://plus.google.com/+toyota
https://plus.google.com/+Delta
https://plus.google.com/+hugoboss
https://plus.google.com/+davidbeckham
As opposed to
https://plus.google.com/107341475998486822497
125. No Google Plus Vanity URL yet!
www.gplus.to
www.plus.ly
www.goplus.us
www.gplusnick.com
129. This is almost everything you
use on your computer!
129
130. Third Party Google Plus website …
• www.circlecount.com
• www.findpeopleonPlus.com
• www.gplusrecruiter.com
• www.gphangouts.com
• www.gplus.to
• www.socialstatistics.com
133. Dreaming, Belonging, Sharing
How is Google+ Different From Facebook?
They are NOT drawing the same users…
• Facebook is a place to connect with Family, Friends, and Business
Acquaintances.
• Google+ is a place to connect with Strangers
• Facebook – the conversation is more casual.
• Google+ - the conversation is more about business, news, education.
• Facebook – users expect to see personal posts, family photos.
• Google+ - users expect to see interesting content.
• Facebook – the conversation is more personal.
• Google+ - the conversation is intellectual.
149. Pinterest clones …
• Trippy, a Pinterest for travelers.
• Wanderfly, a Pinterest for travel recommendations.
• Gtrot, a Pinterest for globetrotters.
• Kulisha, a Pinterest for social commentary.
• Manteresting, a Pinterest for men.
• Gentlemint, a Pinterest for gentlemen.
• Dartitup, a Pinterest for dudes.
• Snatchly, a Pinterest for porn.
• Hunuku, a Pinterest for families.
• Everplaces, a Pinterest for the real world.
• Urbantag, a Pinterest for places you’ve been.
• Singterest, a Pinterest for Singapore.
• Pin.me, a Pinterest for Russia.
• TheComplete.Me, a Pinterest for dating.
• Discover, a Pinterest for designers.
• Pingram, a Pinterest for Instagram.
• Reclip.it, a Pinterest for deal lovers (perhaps a Groupon for Pinterest for deals).
• Sworly, a Pinterest for music.
• Tailored, a Pinterest for weddings.
• Chill, a Pinterest for video.
• Stylepin, a Pinterest for fashion.
• SparkRebel, a Pinterest for fashionistas.
• Pinstyle, a Pinterest for fashionable fashionistas.
• Minglewing, a Pinterest for discussion.
• Thinng, a Pinterest for stuff.
• GetVega, a Pinterest for compulsive listers.
• Clipix, a Pinterest for private people.
• Pinspire, a Pinterest for Pinterest users.
• I Wanna Nom, a Pinterest for recipes.
• PinCat, a Pinterest for pinning cats to Pinterest.
170. Adding a Pinterest tab to Facebook !
http://www.pinvolve.co/
http://woobox.com/pinterest
171. Don’t Make Me Think …
• We don’t read page – we scan them.
• We don’t figure out how things work. We
muddle through.
• Keep your site simple – every question
mark adds to your visitors cognitive
workload.
181. Responsive Web Design (RWD) …
The beauty of this is that responsive design does not need to be
code-specific to every device out there. It intelligently changes the
content based on browser width. If it’s designed correctly, your user
will no longer need to zoom in to find content.
183. Responsive and
Adaptive Design
In the case of Mashable, we also detect the type of device and
change the site's behavior accordingly. On touch devices, for
instance, we enable swiping between columns. (Technically,
detecting device functionalities may be referred to as "adaptive
design," rather than "responsive," but increasingly both approaches
are used in tandem.)
Adaptive -
233. Vine …
Vine is a mobile app that allows you to
create 7 second video clips.
Website: www.vine.co
Twitter: www.twitter.com/vineapp
Blog: http://vine.co/blog
Company: Vine Labs Inc (Bought by Twitter Oct 2012)
Can post short video clips to Twitter and/or Facebook
Vine – initially launched in iphone and now on Android (as of June 13th
2013)
Related app : Snapchat!
238. Promoted Accounts …
• Promoting your account is one of the quickest way to build an
active community of advocates and influencers for your business.
The bigger your follower base, the more people there are to
engage with and spread your message.
You can control the Tweets by:
Interests
Gender
Location
Users like their current followers
Users who follow specific influencers
239. Promoted Tweets
Promoted Tweets are regular Tweets but
with the added bonus of reaching both
current and potential followers you
target.
You can control the Tweets by:
Interests
Gender
Location
Users like their current followers
Users who follow specific influencers
Device followers
(phones, desktop)
Current
Promoted tweets are sold on a cost-per-
engagement basis, meaning advertisers
only pay when a user replies to, clicks or
favorites the tweet.
240. Promoted Trends …
Trends mean massive exposure for your business. Trends are
popular topics happening right now, on Twitter. Because these
Trends are placed prominently next to a user’s timeline, they get
mass exposure.
Promoted trends currently cost $200k.
They’re bought for a day, for a region and
function much like a display placement.
[Was $150k in 2012]
The advertiser is paying to be seen and
spark a conversation on Twitter about their
business or a theme related to their
business.
249. Google Remarketing …
Some facts: 70% of visitors abandon their shopping carts
96% of visitors to a site leave without completing the
action you want.
Remarketing allows you to re-engage with them as the surf other sites on the web (GDN) i.e. you
have an opportunity to win back lost potential customers.
In order to use remarketing you must link Google Adwords with Google Analytics
You need to make 1 small (1 time) change to your Google Analytics code.
Google Analytics then allows you to create lists of users to use get back in front of and you are able
to remove them from the list once they have been converted.
275. • Quora is a question-and-answer website
created, edited and organized by its
community of users. The company was
founded in June 2009, and the website
was made available to the public on June
21, 2010
www.quora.com
Available as a mobile app on iphone & Android
280. • Klout (based in San Francisco) is a company that provides social media
analytics to measure your influence across your social network.
• Networks used are:
Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, FourSquare, YouTube,
Instagram, Tumblr, Blogger, Wordpress, Last.fm, Flickr.
Network coming soon are:
• Quora, Yelp, Posterous, bit.ly, BranchOut, DisQus, LiveFyre.
Benefits: Upgrades on hotels & flights, more job interviews, more
speaker engagement?
307. Have you been paying attention?
• I’m eating a donut
• I like Donuts
• This is where I eat Donuts
• Why am I eating a Donut?
• Look here I am eating a Donut
• I’m good at eating Donuts
• Here’s a vintage photo of my Donut
• Here’s a Donut Recipe
• Now listening to “Donuts”
346. How to get banned on Pinterest
• Grabbing another company's account name.
• Pinning copyrighted content.
• Automating your Pinterest content.
• Scraping content from Pinterest.
• Scraping for contacts.
• Putting links in the wrong place.
347. How to get banned on LinkedIn
• Connecting with people you don't know.
• Posting copyrighted content to forums.
• Using LinkedIn messages with a mass mailer.
• Putting links and email addresses where they don't belong.
• Selling your LinkedIn presence.
• Using bots to get connections, followers, or members.
• Impersonating another company.
348. How to get banned on Twitter
• Impersonating others.
• Snagging trademarked usernames.
• Squatting on handles.
• Buying or selling Twitter usernames.
• Posting the same thing over and over.
• Following people like a bot would.
• Getting followers in sketchy ways.
• Hijacking a hashtag or Trending Topic.
• Posting links with no context.
349. How to get banned on Google Plus
• Creating fake pages.
• Running contests. (You cannot run contests, sweepstakes, offers, or coupons directly on your
Google+ page, but you can display a link to those promotions that leads people offsite.)
• Aggressive Circling.
• Keyword stuffing.
• Marketing regulated products. (guns, tobacco etc..)
• Letting your page go dormant. (>9 months)
350. How to get banned on Facebook
• Creating fake accounts.
• Using bots or scrapers.
• Posting copyrighted content.
• Including calls-to-action in your cover photo. This includes promotions or discounts,
requests to 'Like' or share your photo, contact information for your business, or generic CTAs like
"Tell a Friend.“
• Running contest or promotions outside of a Facebook app. If you want to run a
contest or promotion on Facebook, you can only do it through one of their apps -- either a Canvas
Page or a Facebook App. You also can't base participation on a requirement that a user take any
action with your brand page, such as uploading a photo to your Timeline, or "Liking" a wall post.
The only actions that are allowed as a condition of participation are "Liking" a page, connecting to
your app, or checking in to a Place. You can't use any Facebook mechanism, like the 'Like'
button, in order to vote or register for the promo, either. Finally, you can't notify winners through
Facebook. So basically ... you have to jump through a whole lotta hoops if you want to run a
promotion or contest on Facebook.
5 tips for Group Deals Success for vendors: While many small business owners have considered offering a group deal, only 10% have actually run one, according to recent research from MerchantCircle . And while the results have been promising for these early adopters — and 77% say they would run another one — group deals don’t work for everyone. Among the people who said they wouldn’t offer another deal, 42% said it was not effective in customer acquisition, and 24% said they lost money. Given these mixed results, it is critical that entrepreneurs do their homework before embarking on a group deal to make sure they’re positioned for success. Here are five tips to help you get the best results: 1. Shop Around While Groupon and LivingSocial may be the most well-known group deal services, there are now a wide range of services to choose from. Yelp , Facebook and Google have all tossed their hat in the ring, as have a number of daily newspapers and newsletter services. While all can get your business in front of consumers who’ve expressed an interest in daily deals, these services “can vary widely when it comes to terms and conditions,” says Brent Harrison of marketing consulting firm SmokeJumper Strategy , who has tested out more than a half dozen group deals services for his Mountain View, Calif., wine bar and shop Savvy Cellar . For example, Harrison notes that “with Groupon you’ll get the biggest volume, but also the least attractive economics and control. Groupon typically wants a higher share of the deal price, and they also spread out payments to the merchant over a period of months.” Another issue related to volume is audience targeting. “With a high-volume provider, you’re essentially deep-sea fishing with a driftnet: You want the valuable salmon, but you’re going to get all sorts of less attractive life forms while you’re at it,” adds Harrison. While high-volume services may be a good fit for larger, more established businesses, he suggests that new or niche businesses test out a few smaller, more targeted services to see which one brings in the right clientele. The good news is that there are many vertical and niche deals sites to choose from. There’s Daily Gourmet for foodies. There’s Yuupon and TripAlertz for travel. There’s even a deals site for dog owners called “ Doggyloot .” There are also business-to-business deals site such as RapidBuyr . Before choosing the first vendor that calls you, do some research into which ones offer the right terms and audience for your business. 2. Put Time Constraints on Your Deal to Manage Demand With most group deals services, you won’t have much control over the timing of when your deal hits — this can make it difficult to service the increased demand and could lead to bad reviews from new customers and existing patrons alike. “ People who redeem your offer are likely to follow your usual traffic patterns and come in when you’re already at peak capacity,” notes Harrison. “At Savvy Cellar, I’m typically looking to fill in the downtime such as Tuesday evening, but without constraints on my deal, I know that most people will come in Friday or Saturday night, which could put a strain on my operations.” For this reason, Harrison recommends putting time constraints on your deal when possible. “Think about making your offer valid Monday through Thursday, or running a special event on a specific day with a limited number of spaces available,” he suggests. You can also set up your deal so that the value of the discount is greater on your slowest days or during off-peak times. If your business has significant seasonality, try just running deals during your slowest months. Some group deals services are actually beginning to give merchants more flexibility and control over when volume comes in, so it’s something to ask about when choosing a vendor. For example, Groupon recently launched a “ Groupon Now ” product that lets you put out more modest deals around a certain item or timeframe. 3. Understand the Costs In many cases, group deals don’t result in an immediate profit and may even result in a net cost to the business. Make sure you’ve done the math ahead of time to minimize costly surprises. Here’s the basic formula: your group deal needs to be offered at a steep discount to the regular price — let’s say somewhere around 50%. You will then need to share revenue from the deal with your service provider, at rates as high as 50% or more. So if your spa is offering a $200 service for $100, and you have to pay $50 of that to your service provider, you’ll end up with $50 for your $200 service. If it costs you more than $50 to provide the service, you’ll actually lose money on the deal — and the better the deal does, the more it will cost you. Even if you do make a profit, if your business has a limit on capacity (such as a restaurant or a spa), deal seekers may be edging out regular customers who would have paid full price. But there are other ways to benefit from a group deal besides an immediate profit. A successful group deal brings new customers in the door and gives them a taste of your business. There are up-sell opportunities once they’re in your shop. Plus, your company’s name gets in front of thousands of local consumers through the service providers’ marketing of your deal. 4. Make the Most of the First Customer Visit Given the economics of group deals, there’s a lot riding on getting new customers to spend beyond the initial deal, but according to recent Rice University study , less than 20% of deal users return again to make a full-price purchase. In order to improve these odds, it is essential to make the most of each new customer visit. This means that in addition to making sure you have enough capacity to serve both new and existing patrons, you should also think about developing special up-sells for people who redeem your coupon. For example, a dentist could offer new customers $5 off a Sonicare toothbrush at the end of their appointment, or a yoga studio could offer a discount for new patrons who book a series of sessions before leaving the studio. Also make sure to capture people’s information when they redeem their coupon so you can continue to stay in touch with them. Have a sign-up sheet at the check-out counter for people to register for your email newsletter, encourage people to “check in” at your establishment on Facebook Places or Foursquare , and let them know how to follow you on Facebook or Twitter . 5. Measure ROI If you don’t make an immediate profit on your deal, how can you determine if it was a success and thus worth doing again? David Rangel, former Head of Merchant Services at Groupon and founder of gourmet food e-commerce and deals site Daily Gourmet, recommends that you build these basic considerations into your ROI calculation: How many buyers are new customers? While it may be easier for some businesses such as dentists or spas to identify new customers than others (such as a restaurant), try to figure out which people redeeming your coupon are visiting you for the first time — it may be as simple as asking this question each time the coupon is presented. How many new customers came back, and how much did they spend? Rangel recommends capturing information on each new customer in a database if possible and tracking their ongoing patronage and spending over time. How much money was spent above the voucher amount? Rice University found that 36% of deals customers spend more than the voucher value when visiting a merchant. Rangel suggests that you actually structure your deals to encourage this additional spend; for example, a restaurant whose average bill is $50 could issue vouchers with a value of $35 to $40. How many coupons or vouchers were not redeemed? Not everyone who pays for your deal will end up redeeming it — the Rice study found that average coupon “breakage” is about 22%. Depending on the laws of the state and how your service provider structures the deal, you may be able to keep this money without ever delivering goods or services.
FB closed deals on August 26 th 2011 – 4 months after it started! Facebook has decided to shut down Facebook Deals , its four-month-old Groupon competitor. “ After testing Deals for four months, we’ve decided to end our Deals product in the coming weeks,” Facebook told Reuters in a statement . The product, which launched in late April, was an attempt to bring the popular daily deals phenomenon to Facebook’s 750+ million users. It launched in San Francisco, Austin, Dallas, Atlanta and San Diego, but quickly rolled out to other cities . The market for daily deals has become more competitive in recent months, however, and many are questioning the entire business model in light of Groupon’s questionable financials . “ We think there is a lot of power in a social approach to driving people into local businesses,” Facebook said in its statement. “We’ve learned a lot from our test and we’ll continue to evaluate how to best serve local businesses.” We have reached out to Facebook for more information.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19409207 Amazon do not need this to be their profit centre
http://domainassets.ca/gtlds $185,000 per application. So, yes, Google has dropped a small country's GDP applying for new gTLDs, and then $25,000 per annum to maintain it ! $18milion spent by Google on applications.
http:// www.dotwhat.co /
http:// www.dotwhat.co /
Personal portals for your digital identity or your companies digital identity.
https:// shouldichangemypassword.com /
http:// pwnedlist.com /
www.tescofoodnews.com – we are sorry – honest!
www.google.com/alerts
http:// topsy.com /
www.facecrooks.com ‘ like’ them on facebook to get updates on scams etc.. https://www.facebook.com/Facecrooks Great for security settings on Facebook to protect your privacy.
Facebook reached over 500 million members in late July 2010.
Launched Jan 2013
Here are the items that you can change if you have local Pages coming off your Global Page: Profile photo Cover photo About Photos – uploaded and only shown to each region Tabs/Apps – customisable for each region
FB cover image rules are quite strict: No price or purchase information No reference to ‘like’ or ‘share’ No calls to action …. ‘Vote’ is border line and they are getting away with it. No logos of your company or product No phone numbers address postcode etc.. New rule Jan 15 th 2013 onwards – text to be no more than 20% of the image area.
http://likevsplus.com/ A fun site that asks you to click Facebook ‘Like’ of Google Plus +1 button.
Martha Payne from Lochgilphead in Argyllshire in Scotland Started a food blog – took photos of her school diners.
Number of hairs today=0 Popular site – raised over £60k for kids in Africa (Malawi)
On June 14 th she was banned from taking photos of her food – can you imagine what happened next? What made them think they could get away with this (i.e. the council ban) Answer: All of human history up until now. She is now famous – has a wiki entry - http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeverSeconds Kids from all over the world contribute now
Engagement
The figures above are the total number of minutes per month spent on the website It probably won’t surprise you that Facebook is the stickiest social website of them all, with the users spending an average of 405 minutes on the site in January. This is well ahead of Tumblr and rising star Pinterest, which tie at 89 minutes each, with Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace rounding out the pack. And the wooden spoon? That goes to Google+, which sees an average visit time of just 3 minutes per month from its users. Compared to Facebook, Twitter registers a relatively slight 21 minutes per user per month, but remember that (as usual) these numbers only track visits to Twitter.com, and do not take into account mobile usage, as well as popular Twitter clients such as HootSuite, TweetDeck and others. With these factored in, Twitter’s monthly minutes would be a lot higher. But the big story here is Google+, whose numbers are horrendous. Google CEO Larry Page recently claimed that 80 percent of Google+’s 90 million users log in weekly, so something here clearly does not add up. I wonder if Google is counting people who are logged into their Google accounts as Google+ logins, because if that’s the case I’m always logged into Google+, although I never use it. Nor does anyone I personally know. If so, that’s quite a cheat, as there’s a very big difference between being logged in and being active. No doubt we’ll see an official reaction from Google to these numbers in the weeks to come.
People Pin because it is inspirational and also quite addictive. Passion, Love of curation. Humans fight entropy and disorder in the universe – it is part of what we do – we wash cars we tidy houses etc… - its natural
http://pinterest.com/themercury/wanted-by-police/
Top of the Funnel Marketers are always trying to exert influence on the potential purchasers. And the ultimate point of influence is in that brief, yet critical moment, when the consumer decides to put your product in their consideration set. It might occur because of a movie, a dinner at an Italian restaurant or even a midlife crisis. Previously, this moment was hidden from our view. But Pinterest changes that. Now, we can literally see when a consumer has added your product (yes, via a pin) to their consideration set. That is a remarkably powerful signal of intent to buy. And one that is difficult to discover through any other medium, tactic or social network.
They have applied for SafeHabor under the DMCA. However Copyright and how they deal with it remains their number 1 threat/issue.
Click here - http://www.ninjapinner.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=106 to get a free demo version of NinjaPinner www.ninjapinner.com NinjaPinner costs $47 USD for a single license OR $67 USD for an unlimited license. You should be aware that NinjaPinner is locked to the machine that you install it on (in much the same way as Microsoft Windows is).
How to install a Pinterest tab on Facebook.
From Steve Krugg – Don’t Make Me Think – a book about the commonsense approach to web usability.
Since May 2012 – it is the law – ipo.gov.uk
The widget available at www.civicuk.com/cookie-law appears to be a common widget on UK based websites and is fairly non-intrusive and most certainly worth considering for inclusion on your website. A useful (and also very popular) website to refer to from your website to educate/inform your visitor about cookies is www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies
www.vee24.com Schuh offer a live fitting service for kids shoes Vee24 lets you control the page
Create engaging live onsite avatars Many website now offer real online video help through the use of interactive avatars – the use of these online avatars as been shown to increase conversion rate by 30%-60% and lead capture by 20%-45% by getting your messages across to website visitors in a unique and innovative way. Using an online virtual spokesperson on your website will allow you to: introduce your home page, spice up your FAQ, guide traffic, drive call to action on sign up, and create landing pages and tutorials. Tailor your message any way you want. The sky is the limit and of course most of the companies who offer this technology will offer male and/or female actors with plenty of languages and accents including southern-US, neutral-US, British, Spanish, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin and Korean.
http://www.solvemedia.com/client-showcase Offer both CAPTCHA TYPE-IN & Video TYPE-IN http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21260007 – 30th Jan 2013 – Ticketmaster dumps Captcha
Responsive Web Design ( RWD ) essentially indicates that a web site is crafted to use Cascading Style Sheets , with fluid proportion-based grids, to adapt the layout to the viewing environment, and probably also use flexible images. As a result, users across a broad range of devices and browsers will have access to a single source of content, laid out so as to be easy to read and navigate with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling. e.g. http:// www.gocompare.com / - move chrome screen size on this and see it resize automatically.
A gigapixel image is a digital image bitmap composed of one billion (10 9 ) pixels (picture elements), 1000 times the information captured by a 1 megapixel digital camera . Current technology for creating such very high-resolution images usually involves either making mosaics of a large number of high-resolution digital photographs or using a film negative as large as 12" × 9" (30 cm × 23 cm) up to 18" × 9" (46 cm × 23 cm), which is then scanned with a high-end large-format film scanner with at least 3000 dpi resolution. As of 2011, only a few cameras are capable of creating a gigapixel image in a single sweep of a scene, such as the Pan-STARRS PS1 and the Gigapxl Camera . [1] [2]
The World's Largest Panoramic Photo Canon 7D and & EF 400 f/2.8L IS II were used to make this 320 gigapixel . http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html An amazing image of London taken from the top of the BT Tower has set a new record for the world’s largest panoramic photo. The image shows a full 360 degree view of London in incredible detail. Project by numbers: • 320 – the number of gigapixels in the photo • 48,640 – the number of individual images shot • 3 – the number of days it took to shoot all the individual photos • 3 – the number of months over which the computer processed the final result • 60,000 – times bigger than an iPhone 4 photo • 98 – the number of meters long if printed in normal photographic resolution • 24 – the number of meters high if printed in normal photographic resolution • 29th – The floor at the BT Tower where the photos were taken • 20 – number of miles distant to the viewable horizon
Blendr is the new way to make friends nearby. Using your mobile device's location based services (LBS), Blendr connects users based upon on shared interests helping you to make new friends instantly. Blendr is the go-to social networking app available on Facebook and iOS devices 4.0 or later (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad).
Links to Spotify and Rdio – i.e play full songs Has explicit lyrics opt out section etc.. – impressive interface.
They you when to target people who follow u e.g. if lots of married mums follow you then they give you the best times to tweet them etc.. www.persodic.com
There are more uses for Twitter than I care to mention and hell, more blog space written on the subject than I care to list, however the best way to manage a brand and product is not through shouting, we're here, buy my stuff, aren't we brilliant... it is to listen and respond. For example Bank of America are gaining in popularity on the Twittersphere due to their help desk - they scan Twitter and offer advice, links to products when asked, conversations are taken offline to follow up in detail - essentially marketing the brand by offering help and advice. I teach my clients that unless you are operating a "Fire Sale" stop broadcasting - listen and take part in the conversations relevant to your business and product - the best use of Twitter for a business is Customer Care - managing their expectations and pointing them in the right direction - not shouting buy buy buy! Your business needs to set up search filters to monitor relevant conversations and join in.
www.twitter.com/ArenaFlowers
Utah Attorney General – Ronnie Lee Gardner – 17 th June 2010
http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Joke_Trial Paul Chambers and the Twitter joke trial !
Greek Olympian Voula Papachristou was booted from her country’s Olympic team this week after posting a racial joke to Twitter — and now says the punishment has left her “very bitter and upset.” The triple jumper posted a tweet earlier this week that roughly translated to: “With so many Africans in Greece…at least the West Nile mosquitoes will eat homemade food!!!” She later apologized for the tweet, but it wasn’t enough to prevent the Greek Olympic Committee from expelling her from the Games. What’s more, a spokesperson told the Associated Press that the episode had prompted the country’s committee to prohibit Greek Olympians from using social media to talk about anything not directly related to the Games for the remainder of the event. Now, Papachristou tells the Guardian she believe her punishment was too harsh.
http://www.weknowwhatyouredoing.com/
Demos of hml5 geo-location technology.
Online Behavioural Advertising ..
Behavioural advertising is also known as online profiling. It's rarely a coincidence when you see Web ads for products that match your interests. WSJ's Christina Tsuei explains how advertisers use cookies to track your online habit. Wittingly or not, people pay a price in reduced privacy for the information and services they receive online. Dictionary.com, the site with the most tracking files, is a case study. The site's annual revenue, about $9 million in 2009 according to an SEC filing, means the site is too small to support an extensive ad-sales team. So it needs to rely on the national ad-placing networks, whose business model is built on tracking. Dictionary.com executives say the trade-off is fair for their users, who get free access to its dictionary and thesaurus service. "Whether it's one or 10 cookies, it doesn't have any impact on the customer experience, and we disclose we do it," says Dictionary.com spokesman Nicholas Graham. "So what's the beef?" The problem, say some industry veterans, is that so much consumer data is now up for sale, and there are no legal limits on how that data can be used. Until recently, targeting consumers by health or financial status was considered off-limits by many large Internet ad companies. Now, some aim to take targeting to a new level by tapping online social networks. Adobe Flash Local Shared Objects If a browser includes the Adobe Flash Player plugin (formerly developed by Macromedia ), the Local Shared Objects (“flash cookies”) functionality can be used in a way very similar to cookies. Local Shared Objects may be an attractive choice to web developers because a majority of Windows users have Flash Player installed, the default size limit is 100 kB, and the security controls are distinct from the user controls for cookies, so Local Stored Objects may be enabled when cookies are not. In some cases, web sites have created Flash LSOs that behave differently than what a user specifies for his http cookies, which has raised concern that web sites need to specify a consistent privacy policy across different types of cookies. [39] Hidden inside Ashley Hayes-Beaty's computer, a tiny file helps gather personal details about her, all to be put up for sale for a tenth of a penny. The file consists of a single code— 4c812db292272995e5416a323e79bd37—that secretly identifies her as a 26-year-old female in Nashville, Tenn. The code knows that her favorite movies include "The Princess Bride," "50 First Dates" and "10 Things I Hate About You." It knows she enjoys the "Sex and the City" series. It knows she browses entertainment news and likes to take quizzes. "Well, I like to think I have some mystery left to me, but apparently not!" Ms. Hayes-Beaty said when told what that snippet of code reveals about her. "The profile is eerily correct." In an interview with WSJ's Alan Murray, WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell conceded that advertisers must do better to inform customers about the tracking and mapping of online behavior. On the U.S. economy, he characterized the last 6-7 months as "America Bites Back" but wonders how long the recovery will last. Ms. Hayes-Beaty is being monitored by Lotame Solutions Inc., a New York company that uses sophisticated software called a "beacon" to capture what people are typing on a website—their comments on movies, say, or their interest in parenting and pregnancy. Lotame packages that data into profiles about individuals, without determining a person's name, and sells the profiles to companies seeking customers. Ms. Hayes-Beaty's tastes can be sold wholesale (a batch of movie lovers is $1 per thousand) or customized (26-year-old Southern fans of "50 First Dates"). "We can segment it all the way down to one person," says Eric Porres, Lotame's chief marketing officer. One of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found, is the business of spying on Internet users. View Full Image Brian McCord for The Wall Street JournalAshley Hayes-Beaty's taste in film is tracked by a New York firm—and offered for sale for a tenth of a cent. Journal Community The Journal conducted a comprehensive study that assesses and analyzes the broad array of cookies and other surveillance technology that companies are deploying on Internet users. It reveals that the tracking of consumers has grown both far more pervasive and far more intrusive than is realized by all but a handful of people in the vanguard of the industry. • The study found that the nation's 50 top websites on average installed 64 pieces of tracking technology onto the computers of visitors, usually with no warning. A dozen sites each installed more than a hundred. The nonprofit Wikipedia installed none. • Tracking technology is getting smarter and more intrusive. Monitoring used to be limited mainly to "cookie" files that record websites people visit. But the Journal found new tools that scan in real time what people are doing on a Web page, then instantly assess location, income, shopping interests and even medical conditions. Some tools surreptitiously re-spawn themselves even after users try to delete them. • These profiles of individuals, constantly refreshed, are bought and sold on stock-market-like exchanges that have sprung up in the past 18 months. The new technologies are transforming the Internet economy. Advertisers once primarily bought ads on specific Web pages—a car ad on a car site. Now, advertisers are paying a premium to follow people around the Internet, wherever they go, with highly specific marketing messages. It's rarely a coincidence when you see Web ads for products that match your interests. WSJ's Christina Tsuei explains how advertisers use cookies to track your online habits. Dig Deeper Part 2 in Series: Microsoft Quashed Bid to Boost Web Privacy Part 3 in Series: On Web's Frontier, Anonymity in Name Only Part 4 in Series: Stalking by Cellphone Part 5 in Series: Google Agonizes Over Privacy Personal Details Exposed Via Biggest U.S. Websites The Journal's Methodology What They Know About You Digits: Your Questions on Digital Privacy Digits: Analyzing What You Have Typed Digits: Lawsuit Tackles Files That 'Re-Spawn' Cookies Full Coverage: wsj.com /WTK Glossary Key tracking terminology How to Protect Yourself Almost every major website you visit is tracking your online activity. Here's a step-by-step guide to fending off trackers. View Interactive The Tracking Ecosystem Surfing the Internet kickstarts a process that passes information about you and your interests to tracking companies and advertisers. See how it works. In between the Internet user and the advertiser, the Journal identified more than 100 middlemen—tracking companies, data brokers and advertising networks—competing to meet the growing demand for data on individual behavior and interests. The data on Ms. Hayes-Beaty's film-watching habits, for instance, is being offered to advertisers on BlueKai Inc., one of the new data exchanges. "It is a sea change in the way the industry works," says Omar Tawakol, CEO of BlueKai. "Advertisers want to buy access to people, not Web pages." The Journal examined the 50 most popular U.S. websites, which account for about 40% of the Web pages viewed by Americans. (The Journal also tested its own site, WSJ.com.) It then analyzed the tracking files and programs these sites downloaded onto a test computer. As a group, the top 50 sites placed 3,180 tracking files in total on the Journal's test computer. Nearly a third of these were innocuous, deployed to remember the password to a favorite site or tally most-popular articles. But over two-thirds—2,224—were installed by 131 companies, many of which are in the business of tracking Web users to create rich databases of consumer profiles that can be sold. The top venue for such technology, the Journal found, was IAC/InterActive Corp.'s Dictionary.com. A visit to the online dictionary site resulted in 234 files or programs being downloaded onto the Journal's test computer, 223 of which were from companies that track Web users. The information that companies gather is anonymous, in the sense that Internet users are identified by a number assigned to their computer, not by a specific person's name. Lotame, for instance, says it doesn't know the name of users such as Ms. Hayes-Beaty—only their behavior and attributes, identified by code number. People who don't want to be tracked can remove themselves from Lotame's system. And the industry says the data are used harmlessly. David Moore, chairman of 24/7 RealMedia Inc., an ad network owned by WPP PLC, says tracking gives Internet users better advertising. "When an ad is targeted properly, it ceases to be an ad, it becomes important information," he says. Tracking isn't new. But the technology is growing so powerful and ubiquitous that even some of America's biggest sites say they were unaware, until informed by the Journal, that they were installing intrusive files on visitors' computers. The Journal found that Microsoft Corp.'s popular Web portal, MSN.com, planted a tracking file packed with data: It had a prediction of a surfer's age, ZIP Code and gender, plus a code containing estimates of income, marital status, presence of children and home ownership, according to the tracking company that created the file, Targus Information Corp. Both Targus and Microsoft said they didn't know how the file got onto MSN.com, and added that the tool didn't contain "personally identifiable" information. Tracking is done by tiny files and programs known as "cookies," "Flash cookies" and "beacons." They are placed on a computer when a user visits a website. U.S. courts have ruled that it is legal to deploy the simplest type, cookies, just as someone using a telephone might allow a friend to listen in on a conversation. Courts haven't ruled on the more complex trackers. The most intrusive monitoring comes from what are known in the business as "third party" tracking files. They work like this: The first time a site is visited, it installs a tracking file, which assigns the computer a unique ID number. Later, when the user visits another site affiliated with the same tracking company, it can take note of where that user was before, and where he is now. This way, over time the company can build a robust profile. One such ecosystem is Yahoo Inc.'s ad network, which collects fees by placing targeted advertisements on websites. Yahoo's network knows many things about recent high-school graduate Cate Reid. One is that she is a 13- to 18-year-old female interested in weight loss. Ms. Reid was able to determine this when a reporter showed her a little-known feature on Yahoo's website, the Ad Interest Manager, that displays some of the information Yahoo had collected about her. Yahoo's take on Ms. Reid, who was 17 years old at the time, hit the mark: She was, in fact, worried that she may be 15 pounds too heavy for her 5-foot, 6-inch frame. She says she often does online research about weight loss. "Every time I go on the Internet," she says, she sees weight-loss ads. "I'm self-conscious about my weight," says Ms. Reid, whose father asked that her hometown not be given. "I try not to think about it…. Then [the ads] make me start thinking about it." Yahoo spokeswoman Amber Allman says Yahoo doesn't knowingly target weight-loss ads at people under 18, though it does target adults. "It's likely this user received an untargeted ad," Ms. Allman says. It's also possible Ms. Reid saw ads targeted at her by other tracking companies. Information about people's moment-to-moment thoughts and actions, as revealed by their online activity, can change hands quickly. Within seconds of visiting eBay.com or Expedia.com, information detailing a Web surfer's activity there is likely to be auctioned on the data exchange run by BlueKai, the Seattle startup. Each day, BlueKai sells 50 million pieces of information like this about specific individuals' browsing habits, for as little as a tenth of a cent apiece. The auctions can happen instantly, as a website is visited. Spokespeople for eBay Inc. and Expedia Inc. both say the profiles BlueKai sells are anonymous and the people aren't identified as visitors of their sites. BlueKai says its own website gives consumers an easy way to see what it monitors about them. Tracking files get onto websites, and downloaded to a computer, in several ways. Often, companies simply pay sites to distribute their tracking files. But tracking companies sometimes hide their files within free software offered to websites, or hide them within other tracking files or ads. When this happens, websites aren't always aware that they're installing the files on visitors' computers. Often staffed by "quants," or math gurus with expertise in quantitative analysis, some tracking companies use probability algorithms to try to pair what they know about a person's online behavior with data from offline sources about household income, geography and education, among other things. The goal is to make sophisticated assumptions in real time—plans for a summer vacation, the likelihood of repaying a loan—and sell those conclusions. Some financial companies are starting to use this formula to show entirely different pages to visitors, based on assumptions about their income and education levels. Life-insurance site AccuquoteLife.com, a unit of Byron Udell & Associates Inc., last month tested a system showing visitors it determined to be suburban, college-educated baby-boomers a default policy of $2 million to $3 million, says Accuquote executive Sean Cheyney. A rural, working-class senior citizen might see a default policy for $250,000, he says. "We're driving people down different lanes of the highway," Mr. Cheyney says. Consumer tracking is the foundation of an online advertising economy that racked up $23 billion in ad spending last year. Tracking activity is exploding. Researchers at AT&T Labs and Worcester Polytechnic Institute last fall found tracking technology on 80% of 1,000 popular sites, up from 40% of those sites in 2005. The Journal found tracking files that collect sensitive health and financial data. On Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.'s dictionary website Merriam-Webster.com, one tracking file from Healthline Networks Inc., an ad network, scans the page a user is viewing and targets ads related to what it sees there. So, for example, a person looking up depression-related words could see Healthline ads for depression treatments on that page—and on subsequent pages viewed on other sites. Healthline says it doesn't let advertisers track users around the Internet who have viewed sensitive topics such as HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, eating disorders and impotence. The company does let advertisers track people with bipolar disorder, overactive bladder and anxiety, according to its marketing materials. Targeted ads can get personal. Last year, Julia Preston, a 32-year-old education-software designer in Austin, Texas, researched uterine disorders online. Soon after, she started noticing fertility ads on sites she visited. She now knows she doesn't have a disorder, but still gets the ads. It's "unnerving," she says. Tracking became possible in 1994 when the tiny text files called cookies were introduced in an early browser, Netscape Navigator. Their purpose was user convenience: remembering contents of Web shopping carts. Back then, online advertising barely existed. The first banner ad appeared the same year. When online ads got rolling during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, advertisers were buying ads based on proximity to content—shoe ads on fashion sites. The dot-com bust triggered a power shift in online advertising, away from websites and toward advertisers. Advertisers began paying for ads only if someone clicked on them. Sites and ad networks began using cookies aggressively in hopes of showing ads to people most likely to click on them, thus getting paid. Targeted ads command a premium. Last year, the average cost of a targeted ad was $4.12 per thousand viewers, compared with $1.98 per thousand viewers for an untargeted ad, according to an ad-industry-sponsored study in March. The Journal examined three kinds of tracking technology—basic cookies as well as more powerful "Flash cookies" and bits of software code called "beacons." More than half of the sites examined by the Journal installed 23 or more "third party" cookies. Dictionary.com installed the most, placing 159 third-party cookies. Cookies are typically used by tracking companies to build lists of pages visited from a specific computer. A newer type of technology, beacons, can watch even more activity. Beacons, also known as "Web bugs" and "pixels," are small pieces of software that run on a Web page. They can track what a user is doing on the page, including what is being typed or where the mouse is moving. The majority of sites examined by the Journal placed at least seven beacons from outside companies. Dictionary.com had the most, 41, including several from companies that track health conditions and one that says it can target consumers by dozens of factors, including zip code and race. Dictionary.com President Shravan Goli attributed the presence of so many tracking tools to the fact that the site was working with a large number of ad networks, each of which places its own cookies and beacons. After the Journal contacted the company, it cut the number of networks it uses and beefed up its privacy policy to more fully disclose its practices. The widespread use of Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash software to play videos online offers another opportunity to track people. Flash cookies originally were meant to remember users' preferences, such as volume settings for online videos. But Flash cookies can also be used by data collectors to re-install regular cookies that a user has deleted. This can circumvent a user's attempt to avoid being tracked online. Adobe condemns the practice. Most sites examined by the Journal installed no Flash cookies. Comcast.net installed 55. That finding surprised the company, which said it was unaware of them. Comcast Corp. subsequently determined that it had used a piece of free software from a company called Clearspring Technologies Inc. to display a slideshow of celebrity photos on Comcast.net. The Flash cookies were installed on Comcast's site by that slideshow, according to Comcast. Clearspring, based in McLean, Va., says the 55 Flash cookies were a mistake. The company says it no longer uses Flash cookies for tracking. CEO Hooman Radfar says Clearspring provides software and services to websites at no charge. In exchange, Clearspring collects data on consumers. It plans eventually to sell the data it collects to advertisers, he says, so that site users can be shown "ads that don't suck." Comcast's data won't be used, Clearspring says. Wittingly or not, people pay a price in reduced privacy for the information and services they receive online. Dictionary.com, the site with the most tracking files, is a case study. The site's annual revenue, about $9 million in 2009 according to an SEC filing, means the site is too small to support an extensive ad-sales team. So it needs to rely on the national ad-placing networks, whose business model is built on tracking. Journal Community DISCUSS “ Think about how these technologies and the associated analytics can be used in other industries and social settings (e.g. education) for real beneficial impacts. This is nothing new for the web, the now that it has matured, it can be a positive game-changer. ” — Mitchell Weisberg Dictionary.com executives say the trade-off is fair for their users, who get free access to its dictionary and thesaurus service. "Whether it's one or 10 cookies, it doesn't have any impact on the customer experience, and we disclose we do it," says Dictionary.com spokesman Nicholas Graham. "So what's the beef?" The problem, say some industry veterans, is that so much consumer data is now up for sale, and there are no legal limits on how that data can be used. Until recently, targeting consumers by health or financial status was considered off-limits by many large Internet ad companies. Now, some aim to take targeting to a new level by tapping online social networks. Media6Degrees Inc., whose technology was found on three sites by the Journal, is pitching banks to use its data to size up consumers based on their social connections. The idea is that the creditworthy tend to hang out with the creditworthy, and deadbeats with deadbeats. "There are applications of this technology that can be very powerful," says Tom Phillips, CEO of Media6Degrees. "Who knows how far we'd take it?" — Emily Steel, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Tom McGinty contributed to this report. Write to Julia Angwin at [email_address]
Adroll is one of many many companies who offer this service…
Using the addin Ghostery – you can see the amount of tracking programs that this website is using – many use more ! www.dietchef.co.uk
How to protect your privacy and explain what you can do i.e. complain etc.. http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/
http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/
www.dietchef.co.uk Stunning website Calls to action, phone numbers, help, social media, offers, nice UI, feedback, buy now. Ghostery tells me they are very serious about profiling and tracking customers.
New from September 2012 onwards … different from recommendation – not as strong You can now endorse your friends for their skills and expertise – your picture will appear on their profile next to what you have endorsed.
They are attempting to measure your social capital – not financial capital! http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/21/klout-kred-peerindex-radian6/
www.klout.com – uses a huge number of social networks to give you a score from 0-100
www.peerindex.com Bring to bear a lot of social networking sites data (a lot less than Klout, but a lot more than Kred)
www.kred.com Appear to only work using Twitter.
So what is Klout and why does it matter? Klout measures influence across the social web. We assign a Klout Score from 1 to 100 based on your ability to drive action. We also find your most influential topics, your influencers, who you influence, as well as other stats surrounding your influence. Think of it as a social credit score that will increasingly impact your life. How do we Score? We believe influence is the ability to drive action. We are not focused on follower or friend count but instead look at social actions such as Retweets, @messages, likes, and comments. If you have a lot of highly influential people engaging with you on a regular basis you will have a high Score. We score based on Twitter and Facebook (more networks coming soon)
http://klout.com/s/business – launched in March 2013. A Klout score simply shows whether you are somebody who can move content over social media channels that creates reactions
https://aereo.com/
Oscar – Cmm,n Aptera
Like a free hospitality club for the entire planet
http:// www.youtube.com/redbull Austrian Felix Baumgartner breaks the record for the highest ever skydive by jumping out of a balloon 128,000ft (39km) above New Mexico on Aug 14 th 2012