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August 25, 2010

Five things you need to know about Facebook Places

As Facebook launches its own location-based application Places, Hieu Kau Sern, digital director, and Nicholas Chhan, digital manager at Starcom MediaVest Group Malaysia, tells us about the potential impact of this new service.

via campaignasia.com

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August 24, 2010

Podcast: Coping with Social Media

via bnet.com

Two powerful excerpts taken (below) from this podcast by Alexandra Samuel, Director of the Social and Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University.

"Transform your organization internally to deliver on the brand message you’re delivering, and the only way to do that is that people in your organization are really plugged in, in that real time way. They are becoming the best professionals they can be because they are following best practices they are reading about on twitter or they are connecting with the best people on the field on linkedin."

"You need to be in a position of the company where you can respond as quickly as possible and that does not work if you have a traditional PR machine, where every response has to go through team-layers. We see a lot of organization and that really slows them down in adopting social media is that they don’t want to monitor because they feel like if they monitor they have to respond. And they feel like the cant respond because to respond you have to go through layers of approval. Well, that just craziness right? Just because you’re not monitoring doesn’t mean you’re not getting talked about. And once you’ve decided you’re going to listen, it’s better to respond with somebody making a judgment call in the moment than to take 4 hours."

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April 30, 2010

Bride & Groom Twitterring and Facebooking at the Altar

via youtube.com

This is borderline lame and cute. "It's official on Facebook, it's official on my book", said the pastor lol.

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April 26, 2010

It'sTrending.com - The Most Shared Content on Facebook

ItsTrending.com shows the most popular items being shared on Facebook in realtime. The site was constructed by UStream Product Manager, Matt Schlicht. Simple, yet effective. Limited coding was involved too as the page is just a mashup of facebook social plugins.

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April 22, 2010

Facebook's New Community Pages and Enhanced User Profiles

With Facebook being aggressive in implementing it's 'Like' strategy throughout the internet, it's no surprise that it will also change certain things within it's own site. If you've recently created a facebook page, you'll notice another selection item called ' Community Page' - what is a community page? Well, a community page is something that everyone is involved in, it is basically indexing by the users and not a system (like google). A 'Page' is more official - it's a commercial/official profile. A 'Community Page' belongs to everyone that's involved.

One recent change is also on user profiles. Remember where you key in your favourite activities, movies, etc? Previously when you clicked on an item, you'll find other members that shares your interest. However, the flaw was that if you keyed in a favourite movie like 'House MD', someone else that keyed in 'House' or 'House M.D.' won't be paired with you - essential the system doesn't recognise 'House' and 'House MD' as the same item. Thus, facebook made a significant change to this. Now, when you click like on a certain item, such as 'Avatar' (the movie), immediately it will be shown in your profile as an interest and will link to a 'Community Page'.

This is a good move by facebook, because now it consolidates and creates a standard for everyone.

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April 22, 2010

Facebook F8 2010: Revolutionary (Battle Plans Vs. Google)

Facebook's F8 happened yesterday and it simply blew my mind with all that was revealed. The web, the industry, will change significantly and the war between google and facebook will intensify. To prepare for 2011/12 it's imperative to understand the topics discussed at F8 today. Think of how this will help you and your corporation.

Essentially, facebook will unify content and services on the web and make it social. If you like a particular song at a certain website, the web will remember - when you visit another website it will know what you already liked. The web will remember you, so you don't have to keep telling it every single time you subscribe to a new website.

See the seemingly simple screenshot above of the 'Friends' Activity' widget? Maybe soon if you visit an adult site, it'll tell you which of your friends have 'activity' there. As my friend and colleague Arsyan said to me: "Machines will learn and remember you, mundane tasks won't have to be repeated over and over again". A small step but big leap towards world domination.

Further reading at BBC: Facebook's bid to rule the web as it goes social.

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April 19, 2010

How Companies Can Use Sentiment Analysis to Improve Their Business

Sentiment is a useful metric when taken in concert with others, but you would be ill-advised to base a strategy on sentiment alone. As with any metric, context is important, and so are the human insights that drive strategy.

via mashable.com

One of the best articles I've read on the basics of automated sentiment analysis - demystifying the process, and providing context.

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April 12, 2010

@Posterous Today We Celebrate Our Independence Day!

read the full details at blog.posterous.com

Ok, not today but I just couldn't help but to quote the movie.

Just four days ago, Posterous released a very significant update that allows users to create/edit blog posts, and to manage their content assets (ie. photos). Funny that a blog service only has this now, shouldn't this be a fundamental core feature every blog needs? Not for Posterous.

Posterous shines as the 'easiest' blogging platform. Easy because it specializes in email blogging - compose an email, send to Posterous and you're done. Posterous then aggregates your post to all your other profiles online (ie. facebook, twitter, vimeo, youtube).

In other words, Posterous never needed a post editor on their site, it depended on email (or it's now obsolete and very basic 'Text Editor 1.0'). What they failed however was 'content asset management'. Before Post Editor 2.0 was released, there was no way of editing your photos, videos, and audio clips, or even check how much space you've used. Only via the official iPhone app 'PicPosterous' could one manage his own photos and videos. This wasn't the perfect solution.

With the previous launch of 'customizable themes' on Sept 16, 2009 and now 'Post Editor 2.0'. Posterous has indeed grown up to be feature independent. What will be next?

Thanks Garry, Sachin and team for the respect you've given to your loyal fan base over the years.

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March 2, 2010

Flavors.me - The Simple Social Media Aggregator

via flavors.me

I quote the copy on the main page of flavors.me;

"Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant website using personal content from around the internet"

This is very true, it cannot be simpler than flavors.me, it's design and functionality are top-notch. Jonathan Marcus, flavors.me's master of the universe has been constantly at battle with new features, community comments, marketing, and the unforgiving hardware issues and software bugs - Ah, Jon, we can relate. You're doing a great job.

Flavors.me has been available to the public since Feb 25, 2010. You can see my sample site at: http://flavors.me/nickchhan

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