Read more about Facebook’s Paul Butler’s visualisation of pairs of Facebook friends around the world here.
Archive for the ‘It's a Social World’ Category
The Queen Joins Facebook
The official British Monarchy page was launched by The Queen yesterday at 8am on the world’s most popular social networking site, allowing users to connect with the Royal Family online.
Over 40,000 people “liked” the page within the first hour of it’s launch, and on the first day the page attracted more than 100,000 users, as Royalists and republicans flocked to comment on the British Monarchy page.
Be My Friend
Christoper Fox from Change the Thought is currently running to become a contestant on a very interesting reality television show about the power of social networking.
He needs to beef up on his facebook friends for the show, so please click here to get involved and add him as a friend.
Katie Corris
For the next four weeks we will have the talented Graphic Designer Katie Corris guest posting on the blog. Katie, a recent graduate from the Glasgow School of Art, has just joined FriendsOfOurs as an intern. Katie’s favourite colour is blood red, she supports Newcastle United and listens to Ratatat. Having lived in the capital for only one week (!) we will follow Katie as she explores London using Facebook Places. Find Katie on Facebook and you can follow her in realtime!
YouTube Instant Hit
Go to feross.org to read the amazing story about how first year Stanford University student Feross Aboukhadijeh created YouTube Instant, a site that lets you search across the vast YouTube video database in real-time, in three hours after the Google Instant announcement last Wednesday.
Inpiration beyond reason – Arcade Fire
This is an interactive film created by Chris Milk for Arcade Fire’s The Wilderness Downtown. It’s an incredible, emotional film and wow! When technology is used to create an intimate moment between the user and screen, it reminds me of why I got into this creative, digital world. The film reminds me of the amazing early work of Hi-Res (namely Donnie Darko and Requiem for a Dream). Take 10 minutes out and immerse yourself in this experience, you won’t regret it.
Recorded Future – Temporal Analytics
Wow, this new premium service has been on our lips for the last few weeks. The idea of an engine/aggregator that uses everything indexed on the web to predict the future is certainly controversial. See what it’s all about
The World of Social Media in 2010
This dropped into our inbox recently from Flowtown via Adam Lieber.
It’s a great illustration of the social media world all businesses are currently gripped by. See the full map
