'Google Book' Provides an Image for Every Word in the Dictionary. UK designers Ben West and Felix Heyes have released an odd project that provides a Google image for all 21,000 words in the English dictionary. The Google Book as it's known, is composed of the first image that comes up for each word. West told Creative Applications Network that the pair used two PHP scripts to create the book: "The first one takes a text list of dictionary words and downloads each image in sequence, and the second lays them out into columns and outputs a PDF.
" And the point of this, exactly? “Conceptually it’s whatever you make of it,” West wrote to Creative Applications. “It’s really an unfiltered, uncritical record of the state of human culture in 2012...I would estimate about half of the book is revolting medical photos, porn, racism or bad cartoons.” Though the book hasn't had a printing run yet, the authors plan to. A price hasn't yet been set. Infographic / #Doctors are an avg of %65 of the adult population on #socialmedia. But are their downsides to giving #medical advice online? #infographic. Your Social Media Success Toolkit: 10 Must-Have Resources. “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” ~Robert Hughes Hughes is right on the money. Sometimes I feel like we rely too heavily on tools and technologies to do the work for us, when the real truth about social media is that it’s not a media. It’s a human relationship. In our quest to provide the very best service to our clients, our agency has spent countless hours trying and testing every conceivable social media tool and technology. 1.
Hootsuite is at the top of the social engagement dashboards. 2. The current gold standard for measuring online influence. 3. Remember: followers don’t matter as much as “reach,” which takes into account how engaged and influential your followers are. 4. Facebook Insights provides a wealth of information about your Facebook community: everything from post quality to the demo- graphic information of your active fans (sorry, “likes”). 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. How About You? Google+ Android Update: Start Hangouts Right From Your Phone. Google just rolled out an update to its Google+ Android app, revamping the layout of the "stream" with bigger photos and less white space, similar to the app's recent update on iOS. Another highlight: Now users can start video chats — also known as hangouts — right from their phones.
In a blog post, Google says the update is all about "polish and performance. " The change in layout and navigation ties with the search giant's recent changes to the look of its services, what it calls a "simpler, more beautiful Google. " Now when users launch the app, they'll be brought right to their stream instead of a sparse menu of options that's heavy on the white space. To navigate, simply touch the stream icon (the "house") in the top right corner.
SEE ALSO: Google News Gets Deeper Ties to Google+ Google has had mobile support for its multi-person video hangouts since last fall, but today's update (version 2.6) brings the ability to start them from your Android device, phone or tablet. Social Media / #SocialMedia Landscape. Spotify Launches in Australia and New Zealand. Do records spin the other way in Australia? Spotify may have the answer now that the streaming music service has launched in Australia and New Zealand. “We’re unbelievably excited to be here,” said co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek in a fake Australian accent.
“Australians are massive music fans and we’ve created a service that we know they’ll love.” Actually, that quote was typed up in a press release and had no accent at all, but feel free to use your imagination. Added Kate Vale, Spotify’s managing director for Australia and New Zealand, “Spotify is a game changer. Launched in Sweden in 2008 by Ek and Martin Lorentzon, Spotify came to the United States in July 2011 and now reaches 10 million listeners around the world.
The digital music service recently added embeddable play buttons and a radio function to reach new users and to add more songs to the library. Spotify kicked off the launch with a special playlist for each country. Top 10 Songs on the “G’Day Australia” Playlist. 5 Smart Companies Using Tech For Good. In our social entrepreneurship series, The World at Work, Mashable interviews the faces behind the startups and projects that are working to make a global impact.
By harnessing the power of the web and digital technology, these organizations help children with autism communicate, match volunteers to their perfect charity and fund classrooms all over the country. While the companies are diverse, they are all on a mission to change our lives for the better and improve society. Here's a roundup of featured projects from the last week, including exclusive video interviews with the founders of these innovative startups. To read more and watch the videos, click through to the full story, and follow the series to learn about more breakthrough companies. 1. Big Idea: Keepon is a little robot developed in Japan that is used to research childhood communication and interaction. Read the full story here. 2. Read the full story and see the video here. 3. Read the full story here. 4. 5. 20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week.
Although the NBA Playoffs round two Lakers vs. Nuggets game earned over 2 million more social media mentions than The Voice, the latter's season finale caused quite a large ripple in the social ocean. People took to the socialverse last Tuesday to chat about and celebrate the reality show competition's winner, Jermaine Paul. A former backup singer to Alicia Keys and Mary J. Blige, Paul finally earned his own celebrity bragging rights by wowing both judges and viewers. The runners-up also performed their closing songs during the two-hour finale, and famous acts like Daryl Hall and John Oates entertained the audience alongside pop stars like Justin Bieber, who sang his new single, "Boyfriend. " Social Media / The Who's Who of Measuring #SocialMedia. 5 Reasons Images are King with Social Media Marketing.
It’s a well-known fact that people are visual. They like things that attract their eyes. Color, images, movement, all these things bring them in and make them stay and brings them back. So why do so many business bloggers forget this little tidbit? Why are their sites filled with words and empty of color, photos or images? Here are five reasons to add images to your blog, Facebook, and other social media accounts right now: 1. Drive Traffic from Pinterest The new big thing in social media, Pinterest is all about the pictures.
Everyone can see everything on Pinterest, which makes it ripe for the picking. Of course, the image will need something to back it up or it is sort of pointless, but still. 2. Facebook likes and comments are great. 3. Like comments and ‘likes’, shares are great. 4. To simplify, pictures get attention and keep it. 5. Pictures stick out in your mind. You can read something and then never remember a single sentence. More Reading 592inShare. How Does Social Media Affect Website Search Rankings? [INFOGRAPHIC] How to Increase Your Google+ Followers. Bloggers and marketers are always aiming to weave magic by placing their brand in front of as many people as possible without having to show up. That is why I like video marketing and blogging because after you have recorded or written it and then uploaded it, your presence whether it is on video or in the written word continues to be read or viewed while you sleep all around this social and intriguing web world.
The online videos educate while you snooze and the blog articles inform while you nap… that is what I call efficiency and leverage! Social Networks such as Facebook and the fast rising Google+ (which is projected to reach 20 million users by this weekend) provide platforms to leverage your content and spread your brand. How to Make your Ideas and Content Spread I added the Facebook social plugin to my blog a few months ago and it created a significant increase to the number of Facebook likes (or fans) for my Facebook ‘page’. Add People to Google+ While you Sleep Step 1. Step 2. Social Media Symbols on TV: 6 Ways Brands Can Move from Recognition to Engagement.
You know those social symbols found across nearly every TV spot and program these days? As it turns out, people actually notice them. A recent Accenture study of US TV viewers found that nearly two-thirds of consumers have recalled a social media graphic while watching television, and one in three viewers have made the next step of interacting with social media after seeing a symbol. A TV spot for “The Chronicle” prompts viewers to interact via YouTube and Twitter.
These findings are promising for brands actively marketing their social channels through on-air advertising, and even better news for TV networks and programmers — but the question remains: How can marketers move viewers from recognition to engagement? First, let’s take a look at some of the key findings from the study: The greatest motivator for viewers to visit a social presence while watching TV is to obtain more information about a show or product.
Given this information, what can brands do better? Should You Combine Your Personal and Business Social Media Identity? If you've just got a new job and are now contemplating tagging your Twitter account with a shout-out to your new employer, consider the case of @Phonedog_Noah, a.k.a. Noah Kravitz. Kravitz, a blogger, chose his Twitter handle when he was employed by cellphone news and review website PhoneDog. But Kravitz left in 2010, and last year PhoneDog sued him for $340,000 for the 17,000 followers he kept after he left the position. It's unclear if PhoneDog will get its way — a California court in February denied Kravitz's motion to dismiss. While Kravitz's case provides a clear reason to avoid meshing your professional and personal worlds via social media, it's not always a bad idea.
Consider, for instance, Aliza Licht, a blogger with 385,000 followers. Licht, who had worked in PR at Donna Karan since 1998, kept her identity secret until last October, when she revealed it in the YouTube video below: Licht's Twitter handle is sort of an amalgam of advertising and social media.
Storify Adds GetGlue Tool to Help TV Networks Follow Viewer Reaction. Social media storytelling tool Storify is adding GetGlue to its list of social media tools to help TV networks engage with viewers and build stories from viewer comments about their shows. Entertainment social network GetGlue will join Storify's list of social media sources along with other platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.
Storify users curate comments, images and videos to build social stories in a new media format that is interactive and social. Users create their stories within Storify by dragging and dropping comments, photos and videos. The stories can then be embedded anywhere. SEE ALSO: How Oprah is Revolutionizing Social TV in Real-Time Storify said TV networks can use GetGlue's social commentary around television to enrich their stories with commentary from passionate television fans. The concept of social TV is on the rise, as more home viewers log in to social networks to discuss what's happening with their favorite shows in real time as they air.
Dadchat.2012-04-19 1 in 10 Have Sent Sexts to the Wrong Person [INFOGRAPHIC] Enjoy sending sexy pictures and texts to your significant other? Just make sure it goes to the appropriate person. The mistake of sending it to wrong recipient is made by 11% of sexters. A poll conducted by U.K. -based mobile news site Recombu among 2,000 adults revealed that almost half (47%) of England sends sexy texts to their significant other.
Of that adventurous group, about 11% have mistakenly sent sexts to the wrong person, such as family members or friends. Men are most likely to be the culprits in accidentally sending sexts to someone else, as 16% of men have sent one to a family member and 8% of women have done the same. But overall, women tend to send more sexts than men. SEE ALSO: Sexting Teens Twice as Likely to Be Depressed Men and women are also keen on deleting sexts from a mobile phone to keep others from finding out. The study also looked at how men and women communicate via texts. Thumbnail courtesy of iStockphoto, izusek. How Social Media Is Taking Over the News Industry [INFOGRAPHIC]
More than ever, people are using Twitter, Facebook and other social media sources to learn about what's happening in the world as traditional news outlets become increasingly less relevant to the digital generation. American forces' raid on Osama Bin Laden, Whitney Houston's death, the Hudson River plane landing — these are just a few of many major news stories ordinary citizens broke on Twitter first. Professional journalists, meanwhile, use Twitter all the time to break news quickly before writing up full articles.
And the business side is going digital too. Online news now generates more revenue than print newspapers. But the trend toward Internet and social media-based news — and the accompanying rush to be first to report a story — also comes with pitfalls. Some 50% of news consumers have received "breaking news" via social media, only to find out later it was erroneously reported. How much do you rely on social media for news compared to more traditional sources? The Fortune 500 on Social Media [Infographic] Which Fortune 500 company has the most Facebook fans? Here’s a hint: they’re one of the largest brands in the history of the United States. If you really want to know, you’re going to have to scroll down to the bottom of this huge new infographic which breaks down a ton of data on some important social media statistics of the Fortune 500.
A few interesting things will be noted — such as the fact that blogging has become less important for almost all of the industries. Thanks goes out to Go Gulf for including some comparisons between the Fortune 500 and INC 500, which shows the difference in marketing strategies between existing large companies and the fastest growing companies. Klout Unveils Brand Pages. Klout unleashed Brand Squads, its version of brand pages, into beta on Tuesday with Red Bull as its sole launch partner. The startup — which measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Foursquare to assign Klout users scores from 0 to 100 — will gradually roll out more Brand Squads in the coming weeks and months.
Each Squad will feature the brand's logo, the list of the top 10 and top 100 influencers about the brand, an activity stream and any brand-specific deals offered through Klout's Perks platform. Top influencers are the users who receive the most +K's within Klout's Topics feature (see gallery below). "The bottom line is that we are creating a place where influencers can be recognized and have an impact on brands," Klout spokeswoman Lynn Fox told Mashable. Companies have had success engaging with consumers and promoting products or services via brand pages on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. Now, Klout wants to jump in the game to empower everyday brand advocates.
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