Fueled by a firestorm of outrage on Twitter and Facebook, the people behind the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Friday backed off their decision to cut funding of Planned Parenthood programs.
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Companies are using social networks to connect with customers, but it remains unclear what ‘success’ means in this new media and how to go about achieving it.
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Whether it’s on Yelp, Amazon, or anywhere else that potential clients see your business, a negative review can have scary consequences. It’s also a dirty trick that competitors can use to slag your company; all they need is to set up a personal account on a site that looks like it’s from a regular customer and bingo, your reputation is toast.
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Zynga is making its games more social, but also more edgy, so players will be able to meet people more easily, then hack them to death with a chainsaw.
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Just weeks after opening up membership to Google+, visits to the new social network are booming.
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Twitter and other social media sites are sparking an international debate over whether the forums serve the public good or make it easier to incite disorder.
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Social media startups spin their offerings at DEMO Fall 2011. Can they convince people to sign up?
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It has been widely accepted by both employees and organizations that what you say on a social media network about a company where you’re working could get you fired. A recent decision by a judge in New York may have changed all that after he ordered five people who were fired over comments on Facebook to go back to work.
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Facebook will reach likely reach one billion users this year or next.
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If you are an avid user of social networks (in either in a personal or business capacity) then you may have already heard of Klout. If not, Klout is a handy website that, using ranking algorithms, works out what influence you have over friends or followers. This could mean how many people interact with you, project your updates and so on. Then, based on these algorithms, you get a Klout score and style. All you need is a Twitter, and/or Facebook, and/or Linkedin to join.
Fabien Royer really liked the idea of sharing and interacting with those around you, and wanted to be able to to check on his Klout statistics quickly throughout the day: enter the Klout Klock. The “Klock” pulls all of his Klout information, such as his overall score, network, influencers, style and amplification, as well as being able to tell the time and date. Pretty useful.
Using his Klout account’s API key, Fabien created the Klout Klock using a Netduino Plus, SD card-turned-virtual memory and a little AdaFruit ST7735 TFT for the screen. To get the data onto the screen, each segment is displayed as an image, contained in the virtual memory. The rest involves a little bit of coding and “VirtualFrame” to get the mod working, which is detailed in the project blog post.
A cool mod if you are good with arduino systems and want to know just how revered you are in the world of social media. Check out the video below to see the clock in action:
[Fabien Royer via Adafruit Blog]
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