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Whilst checking on my Facebook news feed this morning, I saw a link from the Zachary Quinto fan page to his new community. I already knew that Quinto was active on social media, so was intrigued to take a look and see what his community is all about.
Launched only a few hours ago (27 July […]

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Following on from my last post about the explosion of interest in Twitter this year, I was interested to find out a bit more about who is instigating these conversations. I ran a couple of queries with our online monitoring tool Social Radar.
A survey of over 600 Australian blogs reveals that interest in Twitter has […]

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The devastation across Victoria caused by this weekend’s bushfires is at the top of most Australians’ minds today. Where do we turn in times of need? To friends and community, whom most of us have regular contact with online through social media.
Already there are over 30 Facebook groups dedicated to leaving messages of support for […]

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I’m the first to admit I’m totally addicted to social networks and online communities, when I talk to friends and family about my online involvement, they often worry that I have such a heavy online presence that anyone can discover all my dirty little secrets (not that I have any, of course). My mum told […]

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Many corporates miss the mark when it comes to implementing applications (including widgets) for online communities.  They are often perplexed about why their advertising-centric idea didn’t go viral. 
This little Facebook beauty, launched to coincide with the release of the movie How to Lose Friends & Alienate people hits the mark nicely.
‘Real Estate’ on Facebook pages is […]

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Earlier this week Facebook commenced a forced roll-out of it’s redesign.
I converted to the new Facebook as soon as it was available, I wanted, nay *needed*, to know what the fuss was all about. Personally, I’m a fan of the redesign. I like the messy apps being stored separately to my main page. I like […]

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If MySpace is a PC, then Facebook is a Mac.
This statement, which I found on the TIMES had visions of the personas of various social networks in my head.
Facebook guy is the epitome of geek chic. He wears a t-shirt, jeans and All Stars to work. He doesn’t need to look professional because he’s damn […]

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comScore recently released a study showing that the popularity of social networking sites worldwide continues to grow at an extraordinary rate.
Facebook is now the most popular (132m users) and fastest growing (153% year on year growth) social network.
Let’s put this into perspective:

Hi5 experienced 100% year on year growth, but has less than half the number […]

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