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10 Outstanding Social Media Infographics | @NowSourcing.Com Nobody has time to read anymore, right? Every day we are all inundated with more and more information overload coming from credible and yet to be verified sources. Where can Internet users find relief? Answer: the infographic. Update: Check out our infographic design services 1 – World Map of Social Networks Let’s start at the 50,000 foot view, shall we? (Source) 2 – Age Distribution on Social Network Sites Is age distribution targeting more your thing? (Source) 3 – Social Media Periodic Table of Elements As we previously reported, our friend and fellow Advertising Age Power 150 member Eyecube created another great visualization called the social media periodic table of elements: (Source) 4 – The Conversation Prism No social media infographic collection would be complete without Brian Solis’ Conversation Prism: 5 – The Boom of Social Sites Focus.com put together an outstanding visual showing both the size and timeline of social communities: (Source) 6 – Make Social Media Work For Your Company

Just how much Traffic Does Techcrunch send to your website or blog One thing that bugs me is that when people build cool apps or launch web based services their marketing plan doesn't really extend past trying everything in their powers to get on Techcrunch. It is the world's biggest tech blog with nearly 4 million RSS subscribers alone but we wanted to take a look and see how that translated in pure traffic terms after we got featured on the there on Wednesday. Just remember that this is just from the 24 hours the article was featured on the site and there is still plenty of traffic coming even today... Overall As you can see the traffic numbers are fairly small. Geographic Spread Referring Sites The site was getting traffic from lots of different places that day and you can see from the following chart just how important Twitter is in the overall picture and where Techcrunch slots in the bigger picture... RSS Readers Facebook Interaction Summary You should try and get covered on Techcrunch.

Models of collaborative tagging Many have argued that social tagging or collaborative tagging systems can provide navigational cues or “way-finders” [1][2] for other users to explore information. The notion is that, given that social tags are labels that users create to represent topics extracted from Web documents, interpretation of these tags should allow other users to predict contents of different documents efficiently. Social tags are arguably more important in exploratory search, in which the users may engage in iterative cycles of goal refinement and exploration of new information (as opposed to simple fact-retrievals), and interpretation of information contents by others will provide useful cues for people to discover topics that are relevant. One significant challenge that arises in social tagging systems is the rapid increase in the number and diversity of the tags. As opposed to structured annotation systems, tags provide users an unstructured, open-ended mechanism to annotate and organize web-content.

Google Wave Preview As we announced in August 2010, we are not continuing active development of Google Wave as a stand-alone product. Google Wave will be shut down in April 2012. This page details the implication of the turn down process for Google Wave. Stage 1: Google Wave is read-only -- January 31, 2012 In this stage, you will no longer be able to create or edit waves. Robots that try to write to a wave will stop functioning. During this time, you will continue to be able to export your waves using the existing PDF export feature. If you want to continue using Wave, there is an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature to import all your waves from Google.

Social Media Today | Media and Political Marketing- There Is No A presumption common to much of the political news coming out the U.S. these days is that voters have rejected party politics to be "independents," and that these voters represent a vast "middle" from which candidates must draw. Good luck with that. I'd argue that these voters have instead migrated to various extremes, and that the only thing they may share in common is an unredeemable distrust and impatience with government. To characterize the political expectations of these extremists as a "middle" of anything other than chaos is a fantasy invention and easy excuse for cable talk show hosts; I think there's something far deeper going on, and it involves the changing way people (voters or consumers) relate to institutions, whether government or business: We seem to be far more interested in what they do wrong than what they do right, and our doubts on their capacity for the latter are matched only by our suspicions of the former. Link to original post

Whatever Happened to the Top 15 Web Properties of April, 1999? As I quietly lamented (or at least noted) the impending death of GeoCities today, I wanted to double-check my memory that it was once one of the very largest sites on the Web. Yup–ten years ago, in April 1999, Web measurement company Media Metrix rated it as the sixth largest online property. Which got me to wondering: How many of 1999′s Web giants remain gigantic today–assuming they still exist at all? That’s a relatively easy question to answer, since the Media Metrix report (which is now conducted by ComScore) still comes out monthly. Here are Media Metrix’s top 15 Web properties (ie, networks of related sites) for April 1999. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10, AltaVista (11 million unique visitors): The original hot search engine is now a sad front end for Yahoo Search, and therefore presumably rolled up into Yahoo’s ComScore numbers. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. So who replaced all those companies that fell out of the top 15 over the past decade? 1. 5. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

Information foraging Information foraging is a theory that applies the ideas from optimal foraging theory to understand how human users search for information. The theory is based on the assumption that, when searching for information, humans use "built-in" foraging mechanisms that evolved to help our animal ancestors find food. Importantly, better understanding of human search behaviour can improve the usability of websites or any other user interface. History of the theory[edit] In the 1970s optimal foraging theory was developed by anthropologists and ecologists to explain how animals hunt for food. It suggested that the eating habits of animals revolve around maximizing energy intake over a given amount of time. Details of the theory[edit] Information scent[edit] Information diet[edit] Some tendencies in the behaviour of web users are easily understood from the information foraging theory standpoint. Models of information foraging[edit] Sources[edit] Notes[edit]

Email Versus Wiki Collaboration Graphic a Big Hit Twitter awareness/engagement ratio: a pillory or a pedestal for I was riffing with Mike Baldwin yesterday about how social media is impacting upon the dynamics of the relationship between awareness and engagement. Mike has said he will blog about this topic at some point, and I look forward to reading it. Our conversation reminded me of a post by David Bradley on SciScoop last November shortly after the launch of Twitter lists wherein David divided the number of lists leading science tweeters were featured in by their follower count in order to derive a ‘Twitter respect ratio for science’. I thought it would be fun to do something similar for pharma. Firstly, the caveats. As the numerical fumbling below ably demonstrates, I am not a statistician. I am describing the product of dividing pharma’s Twitter list citations by its follower count as an awareness / engagement ratio, which I have expressed a percentage. This observation merits a little unpacking. Hence AZHelps currently appears to be particularly good at creating awareness of its activity.

Internet 2009 in numbers What happened with the Internet in 2009? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. Enjoy! Email 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.100 million – New email users since the year before.81% – The percentage of emails that were spam.92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.24% – Increase in spam since last year.200 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam). Websites 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.47 million – Added websites in 2009. Web servers 13.9% – The growth of Apache websites in 2009.-22.1% – The growth of IIS websites in 2009.35.0% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.384.4% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.-72.4% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2009. Domain names Internet users

Informavore The term informavore (also spelled informivore) characterizes an organism that consumes information. It is meant to be a description of human behavior in modern information society, in comparison to omnivore, as a description of humans consuming food. George A. An early use of the term was in a newspaper article by Jonathan Chevreau [3] where he quotes a speech made by Zenon Pylyshyn. More recently the term has been popularized by philosopher Daniel Dennett in his book Kinds of Minds [5] and by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker .[6] References[edit] Jump up ^ Miller, George A. (1983), "Informavores", in Machlup, Fritz; Mansfield, Una, The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Messages, Wiley-Interscience, pp. 111–113, ISBN 0-471-88717-X Jump up ^ Schrödinger, Erwin (1944), What is Life? External links[edit] "informavore" at Word Spy