Twitter vs Facebook?

Twitter climbs the ranks of popularity in 2009 — especially if you include traffic from mobile devices (which aren’t counted in this piece).

Facebook simplifies privacy settings, removes regional settings, and upsets the experts. But what do its users think?

Personally my take on this is simply to converge my identity to one username: stuartgh — for this blog (and new url stuartgh.com), for Twitter, and following the vanity… Continue reading

Amplified Individuals and Business Resilience 18th June 2009

Amplified Individuals and Business Resilience 18th June 2009

Originally uploaded by suethomas

We’re all looking thoughtful at the recent #nlab event on 18 June!

RT @suethomas Thanks to @Solobasssteve for recording AudioBoos at the 18 June #nlab day. Here come the Boos: http://is.gd/1lOxx…

Calling bullshit on social media?

Interesting post critiquing social media jargon and hype from Scott Berkun:

While I like and use Facebook and Twitter, there’s enough hype and abuse of words like innovation, transformation and revolution around all things social media that a critique is warranted – if only to  take a shot at calibrating how people talk about this stuff. I hope this post is used whenever someone feels they’re… Continue reading

Facebook, watch this space

Someone’s tried to set up an account using an email from my domain. I’m now getting friend confirmations based on that account. Hmm, so what does Facebook help centre say on the matter?

I received an account creation email, but I’m already registered.
If you have received a Facebook account confirmation email in error, it’s likely that someone has mistakenly attempted to register using your email address. As long… Continue reading

Proving social media ROI

Thinking about proving ROI for business inspired me to look at this great SlideShare on metrics for online communities:

This nicely shows the range of issues businesses should… Continue reading

Systemantics and online communities

The Fundamental Law of Administrative Workings (F.L.A.W.): Things are what they are reported to be. The real world is what it is reported to be. (That is, the system takes as given that things are as reported, regardless of the true state of affairs.).. Continue reading

Complexity Digest gets a new site

The new Complexity Digest website has the catchy new url: turing.iimas.unam.mx/~comdig. Please update your bookmarks!

Plus read my own choice of article ‘Plectics: The study of simplicity and complexity
Murray Gell-Mann, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA/Europhysics News 33, 17-20 (2002).

BT credit card #fail

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So what does that confusing set of choices… Continue reading

What the Governor of the Bank of England said

Watching Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England speaking live at the Mansion House he said something to the effect that the church did weddings and funerals, and people ignored the sermons. He said the Bank of England did sermons and burials, fluffing the intended analogy. The BBC then reported that the Bank said it wanted the power to ensure its sermons were listened to. Did I get that… Continue reading

Half of iPhone users access social networking from their mobile

There is no doubt that social networking has become the phenomenon of the age. It has moved forward with such a pace that users have probably out stripped technology in terms of the number of applications available. Many of the applications available for the iPhone have connectivity to networks such as Facebook and Twitter, but many have only a limited range of functions when compared to the main networks. The… Continue reading