SMX in London has finished and i was unable to attend - which i am gutted about.

Dean Chew over at www.chewie.co.uk gave a presentation titled Social Media Done Right and its worth checking out. He covered off subjects such as Twitter API and Facebook connect.

You can take a look at his presentation here

http://www.chewie.co.uk/general/my-presentations-from-smx-and-ses/comment-page-1/

Earlier on in the year I went to the social networking forum in London and came away on the whole unimpressed, although they were some great presentations it lacked the professionalism and clarity of SES a month earlier. To be fair SES is now a slick well oiled engine and the social networking platform is in its first year so it is an unfair comparison- still a couple of things for them to consider next year.

• Proactively use social networking technology to facilitate debate
  
• During debates give more time for questions than introductions
  
• If you introduce someone don't then ask them to re-introduce themselves
  
• If you can attract Coke to present, go for some big name social networkers as well!
• Think carefully about the room acoustics and layout.
• Learn from SES!

Still its 2nd ever event is on at Olympia next March 2010 -and things can only get better!

http://www.socialnetworking-forum.com/

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Wolfram Alpha

The launch of this new "Search Engine" intrigues me,especially as its not a search engine at all but a computation knowledge engine.

Having played with it a little during the soft launch phase and watching it collapse every time i searched!! its great to use it and see results.

Quite like the comparison element of the engine, ie cities i quite like its ease and the results layout

http://www44.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nottingham+leeds+sheffield+newcastle+london+edinburgh

Plus the date search 

http://www44.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=25+december+1922

But these are mere distractions!  the real power comes into play when looking into astronomy and mathematics you get some really good results

http://www44.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sun+jupiter+saturn+earth

A couple of issues that will haunt this engine are

Legitimacy of it information

Accuracy of its result

Academic criticism

Speed

Still early days

Take a look at 5 things wolfram alpha does better than google blog post on mashable.com here

http://mashable.com/2009/05/19/wolfram-alpha-better-than-google/

 

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7 Minutes to Re-invent the Internet

This is video footage of presentation about Re-inventing the internet. A number of presentations given by Advertsing execs discuss potential future development in online advertsing among other things!

Worth watching

A couple of the interesting concepts mentioned

Social gyroscope

Semantic Serendipty 

Source: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1473120

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Ha Ha,

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time to make a few posts??

A typical dead blog! But the question i have to ask myself is should i try to kick start this again???

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Google Chrome - most visited

Just playing with Google chrome, it as a most visited page function, which will eventually show the most visited web sites in thumbnails, similar i guess to speed dial

Main difference is this most visited function is based on history not choice....

Now lets think for a second, this could be very embarrasing for shared household computers Youporn, redtube etc....

But a possible great work place function to keep easy tabs on your staff habits....ie Monster, total jobs....

Think that is one setting some people should be turning off

Download and play http://www.google.com/chrome

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Social media research – Universal Mccann

As a result of Jeremiah's web strategy blog i have just spent the last 20 minute digesting an 80 slide presentation of global social media participation. It's the 3^rd report produced by UM, and it is very insightful.

The first of UM wave report was 2006 Sept, the 2^nd wave report June 07 and the 3^rd wave report was March 08.

It covers blogging, Social networks, content sharing, and content consumption. I would recommend spending the time looking through the slides, which can be found here.

http://www.slideshare.net/mickstravellin/universal-mccann-international-social-media-research-wave-3?src=embed

A couple of interesting facts from this presentation that really triggered by interest is the adoption of RSS.

During the period of all 3 wave reports, RSS adoption / awareness has grown from 11%, 15% to 39%. RSS feeds are key way to remain socially connected online, and it would seem global understanding is starting to catch up those who heralded RSS as a worthy contented to emails dominance in messaging, and customer connection. RSS potential may be finally being realised, understood and appreciated.

Pod casts also follows a similar route with its adoption trend mirroring that of RSS.

Take a look and digest, you will notice social media penetration in Asia is "Truly Massive", but keep in mind this will be related to demographic trends and economical realities.

Also check out the rise in social networking profile creation in Russia – slide 37, a leap from 41.7% to 74.2% between wave 2 and 3 reports. In regards of penetration of active users that is impressive!

Without be privy to UM full methodology, the fact that there exists 3 reports means as long as the methodology as been the same for all three, the trends reported are valid.

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