“Dear Mr. Marketer: The Social Web is not your “traffic honey hole.”
“The compulsion to keep up with the stream has become so powerful that we’re gradually abandoning one of the first and most basic rules we all learned as kids. Instead of looking both ways before we cross the street, we look one way; down at our phones.”
The state of the mobile/social universe - a great infographic from Jesse Thomas on the size of the mobile marketplace compared to social network numbers.
Very informative and interesting infographic. (via pinchzoom)
Put simply, business model abstraction is where someone other than the user bears the financial cost of a product or service: ie the product revenue is abstracted from the users of the product.
Layton Duncan with some insight on the inherent flaw in free services like Facebook and Twitter.
LineBreak has released version 1.0 of CloudApp, the best application around for quickly sharing screenshots, files, and links. I’ve been a beta tester of CloudApp for almost a year and it is, hands down, the most useful new app around.
The best part about Cloud is how unobtrusive it is — the app lives in a menu icon and most of its uploading is done automatically. For example, anytime I take a screenshot, Cloud instantly uploads it to their servers and then puts a shortened link to it on my clipboard. When working with teammates, this makes it incredibly easy to share designs or quick thoughts. I simply take a screenshot, go to an IM window, and hit paste.
The new version features “raindrops” — a way for developers to create their own custom hooks into native apps like Photoshop, iPhoto, and WebKit. They’ve also released a web app to manage and organize your uploads.
If you find yourself sharing things throughout the day, give Cloud a try.
iA has announced Big Bang, the next version of their excellent Web Trend Map. The Web Trend Map is a data visualization of prominent web content and interconnections. This year, they are introducing Twitter and Facebook into the mix — check out their post to see exactly how the data will be culminated. Visually, the starting concept looks fantastic. In their own words:
It’s going to look like a late sixties, early seventies object that your parents would have put on their wall slightly influenced by some LSD flashback. OK, now you can faint.
“As messages sent via Twitter cannot be longer than 140 characters, they cannot be copyrighted. However original, witty, or profound they may be, nothing more than good manners protects your original expression of authorship. If you wish to let other people quote or use your Tweets, you need not “license” them; indeed, technically, you cannot license them, since they are in the public domain the instant you publish them.”
Recognizr, a new Augmented Reality application for Android, uses face recognition to show a person’s social media profiles, simply by pointing the camera at them.
For those who don’t follow me on Twitter, I’ve spent a few hours today getting “share” buttons on my site. I ran into a few hiccups along the way, so I’m posting a brief recap, in case it helps anyone else.
Aaron Staton and Rich Sommer checking out Tumblr on the set of Mad Men.
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