http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2009/tc20090823_834450.htm
a number of reports lately about the fact that the main site number of twitter apps will allow for geotagging of tweets. Interesting stuff – but how happy would you be to have your tweets tagged?
Recently we interviewed a young Colombian who spoke about how Tweets in Colombia had been used to trace people and [...]

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here are clips from the NBC event we didnt have time to show today – ill be writing more on our thoughts on Brands and Social Media later in the week
just by chance i found this article about democratisation of social networks in the US from the excellent Pew Life project
http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2009/41–The-Democratization-of-Online-Social-Networks.aspx

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Two quick images from the past 24 hours which say a lot about the on-going battles between between traditional and new media companies and within social network giants of Facebook and Orkut.
The first comes from the front page of today’s Sun newspaper in the UK.

I don’t have exact figures on the differing user/purchaser numbers for [...]

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Here’s the theme for our presentation at the NBC event in September 2009… please feel free to offer up some thoughts
“With the ever increasing presence of technologies (increasingly mobile) and the popularity of web2.0 app’s & social networks (Facebook / Twitter / Youtube, Orkut etc), individuals are increasingly able and willing to observe and [...]

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A new study released by Nielsen reports the shift in the online social behavior. Nielsen’s study results presented here followed the online activity in the USA, Brazil, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Australia. Note that the ‘Member Community’ category includes both social networking and blogging websites.
1. Social network and blogging sites are [...]

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We’ll try to get some clips from the event onto the site in the next few days – a small first clip here…
Please get in touch or leave any comments on the event

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Well worth a look and some basic detail on Brazil to follow
can be downloaded from here

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The Brazilian media is less dependent on the constant flow of meaningless PR-driven surveys that seem to swell the pages of the press in other countries. It is however equal to most nations in that the findings of a quantitative survey rarely become the focus of discussion beyond those most immediately involved. How nice it [...]

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