Auto Follow On Twitter – Twollow –
A tool that lets you add users who twitter certain words automatically, excellent for bulking up follow lists on corporate twitter feeds.
Experiments in Social Media Marketing: A Recap – PSFK.com –
Wowser. Industry blog PSFK pull out an awesome piece of research into the effect of Social Media strategy in promoting their own blog. Marketeers and Bloggers – this should be top of your reading list.
Time Zone Check –
The ultimate timezone tool – I should use this more often to avoid increasingly regular transnational teleconference embarrassment.
Pinch Media » ‘AppStore Secrets’ –
The killer factsheet on iPhone app usage. Essential reading for all mobile marketers. Thanks for sharing, Pinch, this is truly awesome.
I urge you to go and check out We Feel Fine, a flash applet that scours the Interwebs not for keywords you’ve chosen, but from a huge array of predefined emotions.
The result is a staggering visualisation of current states-of-mind across various social media sources, from feeling ‘angsty’ to ‘fine’ (of course) and through to ‘zealous’. Seriously, one cannot underplay the significance I feel this holds, as the way it comes across in its black and #ff005d imagery places monumental power behind the little dots and abstract shapes, each representing a different feeling, and crucially a different person. Allow me to elucidate…
Logging on you’ll start in an ocean of multicoloured shapes and colours. Mousing over will freeze the surrounding area allowing you to pick out a certain point – a label appears signifying the attached emotion. A click on that point shows the sentence or image that the target emotion is connected to. A further click takes you away to that content’s permalink somewhere on the web. Immediately, at least to me, the significance of web browsing via emotional state is felt for the first time.
Jonathan Harris, digital artist behind WeFeelFine along with information architect Sep Kamvar, has set upon a series of projects intended to exploit our increasing hyperconnectivity, and present back to us the visual representation of our online ongoings. Check out this video from coolhunting on the etymology of the project below:
As a member of the ad industry, I am excited by the potential to target users by their emotional state via WeFeelFine, or by Adrian Veidt-style trendspotting via Universe.
Conversely, as a member of the Open Web culture I know that this is art and should remain so. Let’s not sully this by exploiting human weakness, rather use it as a reminder of those core abilities the web and our hyperconnectivity to it can show us, and what we can learn from it.
That’s the true definition of good art, in my opinion.
Blog Marketing and Blog Ads : SocialSpark –
Very compelling idea – crowdsourced social media advertising where advertisers connect directly with bloggers through a brief. Set wordcounts and offer creative assets, plus a small fee. Will research further.
SoundCloud > Jazzanova Remix –
Very cool competition site that visualises both the waveform of a UGC remix, as well as user annotations along its timeline. Worth a good hour of browsing when I have time.
Soft Drink Generator –
Create a new line in soft drinks with this online tool – results look really effective!
Twitter (Social Brand Index) –
The largest directory of Brands that Tweet that I’ve found so far. Let’s hope it gets encyclopaedic, and saves everyone time. Where’s the Wiki?
UX Magazine – The User Experience Magazine –
The inspiration for my new SweetCron theme, which was a long time coming!
Great looking site, I’ll be sure to check this out frequently.
GIFMAKE – generator of gif pictures –
Just what I’ve been looking for all day. A GIF maker that can handle animation lengths and controls looping rules. Nicely!
YouTube – lifesforsharing’s Channel –
The YouTube channel for the heavyweight campaign I’ve been working on – T-Mobile ‘Dance’. Very exciting stuff still to come…
Openfilm – User Generated Films –
Vimeo looks like it has a new competitor in the HD-UGC space.
This site seems to favour long-form video through the promotion of made-for-web series.
Ninjai: The Little Ninja – Chapters –
I used to love this series, and then it went dark for a while.
Now I hear they are completing the series and submitting it as a feature length film!