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Are We Too Obsessed With Facebook? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Are We Too Obsessed With Facebook? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Facebook profiles are like belly buttons: Everybody's got one. Perhaps that statement's still a bit of an exaggeration, but by the numbers, we (that is, Internet users around the globe) are becoming more obsessed with Facebook by the day. One out of every 13 Earthlings and three out of four Americans is on Facebook, and one out of 26 signs into Facebook on a daily basis. We could rattle off stats like that until the cows come home, but instead, we'd like to show you this fascinating infographic from SocialHype and OnlineSchools.org. Here, in a visual nutshell, are some highlights about Facebook usage, 2010 trends, adoption numbers and a great deal more. Take a good look at this information (or click here for the full-size version), and in the comments, let us know what you think about our global fascination with Facebook. Embed this Image on Your Site: Header image courtesy of Flickr, tsevis.

Bret Taylor: “A Few Years From Now, Most Every Single Person At Facebook Is Going To Be Working On Mobile” Bret Taylor: “A Few Years From Now, Most Every Single Person At Facebook Is Going To Be Working On Mobile” How important is mobile to Facebook? Already, 350 million of its 800 million monthly active users are on mobile devices, and that number is just going to get bigger. “Fundamentally we view it as a really big shift for our company, as fundamental as the shift from desktop apps to the Internet,” Facebook CTO Bret Taylor tells me in the TCTV interview above (which was shot at the Web 2.0 Summit earlier this week). “Companies really need to redefine themselves in this world of devices rather than browsers on people’s laptops.” Taylor goes even further with this stunning prediction: “A few years from now, most every single person at Facebook who works there is going to be working on mobile almost exclusively.” Here is where Project Spartan may come in. “Where we can play a role in mobile is just helping app discovery and engagement,” says Taylor.

The social side of the internet The social side of the internet The internet is now deeply embedded in group and organizational life in America. A new national survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has found that 75% of all American adults are active in some kind of voluntary group or organization and internet users are more likely than others to be active: 80% of internet users participate in groups, compared with 56% of non-internet users. And social media users are even more likely to be active: 82% of social network users and 85% of Twitter users are group participants. The overall impact of the internet on group activities and accomplishments In this survey, Pew Internet asked about 27 different kinds of groups and found great diversity in group membership and participation using traditional and new technologies. 68% of all Americans (internet users and non-users alike) said the internet has had a major impact on the ability of groups to communicate with members. Acknowledgements

Fuel Your Creativity Anti-Facebook Social Network “Unthink” Launches To Public Scrappy outsider startup Unthink.com, which bills itself as the “anti-Facebook,” is opening up its doors today, allowing in its first round of beta testers. The Tampa-based company with $2.5 million in funding from DouglasBay Capital sees itself as a more open, more honest form of social networking – one where its users are the owners of their data, and not the product being sold to advertisers. Unthink is the kind of startup that could only come from outside of traditional tech hotspots like Silicon Valley or New York, as there’s a certain level of audacity, and perhaps even ignorance, that you need in order to think you have a shot at displacing social networking giant Facebook and all of its 800 million users. And taking down Facebook is the core of Unthink’s marketing campaign. She explained that the idea for Unthink came to her when her son wanted to sign up for Facebook and she read the terms of service. (Above: a profile after sign-up) On Unthink, user data isn’t sold to brands.

22 aplicaciones, plugins y extensiones para Google+ Google+ se ha convertido en una de las redes sociales de mayor crecimiento en poco tiempo pero probablemente lo que más llame la atención, no sean sus 10 millones de usuarios, sino más bien la rivalidad creciente que tiene con Facebook, a la que parece haberle copiado de manera muy exacta la manera de funcionar. Dado que todos los días nos encontramos con más y más novedades de Google Plus, y que tenemos que admitir que el tema a mí particularmente me está terminando por aburrir, decidí realizar una recopilación de 22 aplicaciones, plugins y extensiones para Google+, que permiten sacarle aún más jugo a la nueva red social de Google. Hay que admitir que hay material para todos los gustos, desde el microblogger deseoso de compartir información y customizar su espacio social reducido, hasta el blogger de antaño que necesita comenzar a promocionar en su blog su nuevo perfil. 1. ¿Empezaste a usar Google+ y te olvidaste que existe Twitter? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

Smack My Glitch Up › AS3 BitmapData Glitch Generator Sometimes it’s good to break things… During a recent project I needed to find a way of simulating digital interference on an image / video stream. At first, it seemed the best approach might be to use the graphics API or Bitmap effects, but why imitate when you can have the real thing. The principle is incredibly simple. It is also possible to corrupt other image formats (png, gif etc) in the same way, by first passing the image ByteArray through a JPEGEncoder. I’ve implemented this technique in the Glitchmap class, which you can download and play with at the bottom of this post. The small gottcha is that it isn’t desirable to mess with the JPEG headers, so when the clean ByteArray is passed to the Glitchmap class, it will determine the length of the header by reading through the bytes until it finds the SOS (start of scan) declaration (0xFFDA). After I posted the webcam glitch images, Jon used them in his title sequences for the 48 hour film gala.

Facebook by the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC] The Social Media Infographics Series is supported by Vocus' Social Media Strategy Tool, a free, six-step online tool that lets you build a custom social media framework tailored to your organization’s goals. You likely know that Facebook is the world's largest social network with more than 800 million users, but did you know that more than 250 million photos are uploaded every single day? Or that the average American spends seven hours and 46 minutes browsing her friends' profiles per month? Facebook has become an integral part of our lives — some people more than others. It's where we learn what our friends are doing, who they're dating and even what they're listening to. We wanted to dive deeper into the Facebook phenomenon, so we collected some stats about the social network and put them together in one infographic. Infographic designed by Emily Caufield.

El ROI es sólo una métrica Rara es la presentación de medios sociales en la que, al terminar, alguien del público no hace la pregunta… “Si pero … ¿a todo esto cómo le medimos el ROI?” El ponente responde según sus tablas, conocimiento o su grado de dospuntocerismo talibán . Si este último grado es alto, tienden a escaparse con evasivas lanzando frases lapidarias como “¿Estas casado? Bien ¿Me puedes decir el ROI de tu relación?” Levanta una gran carcajada de la audiencia, la persona que ha realizado la pregunta sonrie, entre avengonzado y divertido, y el ponente se sale de la situación. Algunos compran este discurso. Vamos a poner las cosas en su contexto. Voy a puntualizar. Y para saber cómo estamos de cerca de ese punto de llegada existen los KPIs. No nos dejemos obnubilar, hay muchas métricas en los medios digitales y sólo algunas de ellas son indicadores reales de cómo nos estamos moviendo de cara a nuestros objetivos . Vamos a por el ROI… foto ::

A Twitter List Powered Fan Page – Tutorialzine Martin Angelov Introduction Recently, Twitter rolled out a great new feature on their site – lists. You can now create and compile a list of twitter users and make it easier for others to follow all at once. Also, at the same time, they expanded their API to include list management functionality. So download the example files and lets start coding! Important: Twitter recently made a radical change to their authentication API’s, which makes it impossible for this example to work. Step 1 – XHTML As usual, we start with the XHTML. demo.html <div id="fanPage"><div class="title"><a class="fanPageLink" href=" title="Go to fanpage!" Here we have the main fanPage container DIV, which holds our the widget and inside it we have the title, content and subscribe DIVs. These are later styled with CSS and populated with data via AJAX. A jQuery Twitter List Powered Fanpage Widget Step 2 – CSS Once we have the markup in place, we can move to the CSS. demo.css Nothing ground-braking here.

Je pense effectivement qu'aujourd'hui l'idée d'être connecté à son réseau devient obsessionnelle pour beaucoup d'entre nous. Si cet article donne l'impression de simplement répéter quelque chose que nous savons tous, il le fait de manière très persuasive et à la fin on se dit mais ou bien sur c'est vrai. by bedart_groupe3_psy Mar 19

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