Social Network Teams Up With Marvel, Lets Kids be Super Heroes. The popular kids-only social network site Club Penguin is making every kid''s dream come true — becoming a Super Hero.
Club Penguin is partnering with Disney Marvel to let kids dress their penguin avatars as Avengers characters including Iron Man, Captain America and the Hulk. This is the first time the site is allowing users to dress up as characters from a franchise outside the Club Penguin world. Usually, kids avatars in the virtual world are winter-clad penguins, but now children can choose to suit up as one of 14 different Marvel characters, and they don't have to always be a hero — super villiain Loki will also be an avatar choice.
The social media site — a place where kids can play virtual online games and talk with other kids — gained significant popularity for its rigorous safety controls and moderators to monitor activity. The site is seen as a fill-in for social networks like Facebook that currently don't allow kids under 13 to register. The Emotion Found in Social Data. Let’s be clear: Most people don’t use social media just for the sake of it.
Some might, but the vast majority of people who share content, post comments or offer sentiments and opinions online do so because they are emotionally invested in the product, service or experience about which they are opining, or what Andrew Jeavons of Survey Analytics calls “the point of emotion.” As Jeavons points out, most feedback is conducted via traditional methods that suffer from huge structural deficits.
Surveys break down for four reasons: They are episodic, have limited sample sizes, the answers are effected by the way the questions are posed, and because they rely on the concept of “recall.” And recall is imperfect because it asks a person to offer information on a past event outside of the context and situation in which he or she experienced it. How Facebook Failed Us After A Suicide At Yale. Intel Creates Infographic Generator That's All About You. Intel, which has catered to Facebook and Twitter users' inherent narcissism before, is giving you a new tool for digital navel-gazing: an infographic that's all about you.
The chipmaker's new "What About Me? " app culls info from your Facebook, Twitter and YouTube profiles to crank out a data visualization of your composite social media profile. For instance, there's a graphic that looks like a flower that tracks your interests based on what you tweet and write status updates about. There's also a record of your most popular post ever and your most popular pic, your ratio of self-created updates vs. found information and "likes. " Other data includes an assessment of your overall mood, your daily habits (night owl vs. early bird) and stuff you've recently talked about.
Intel, which released a well-received app called The Museum of Me last year that created a video along the same lines, clearly believes that the best way to woo social media aficionados is by preying on their self-interest. Storify Makes Its Move: A Social Web News Site Starring You. Storify, our beloved storytelling tool for the social Web, has just launched a redesign of its homepage that features top stories, topics and users.
It also displays a banner across the top, filled with clickable links to the people of Storify, bearing a clear message: "All the stories happening on social media... " Those aren't the words of a mere curation tool. That sounds like a news site. The homepage of Storify is now a destination that displays the big stories of the day according to citizens of the Web. That's homepage material for anyone who spends time on social networks, which means it's a natural place to put some ads and turn Storify into a media business. Storify reflects a belief that real news - not just idle chatter - unfolds on the social Web, and it provides tools to help us capture and share them. But the new features are also about surfacing the work of members, who can be anyone, not just journalists. Storify's founders describe the new homepage.