My Oh MEA!

Nice!courtenaybird: How do Colors Affect Purchases

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:15:04 -0500

How do Colors Affect Purchases

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gatekeepers-20101226,0,1203901,full.story

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:44:07 -0500

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gatekeepers-20101226,0,1203901,full.story:

We are working with some talented authors who have chosen to self publish online. Read up on this new trend in this article from the LA Times.

Here are some new free fonts. Take a look! Did they capture the...

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:44:06 -0500

Here are some new free fonts. Take a look! Did they capture the image of Darth Vador?
25 New Free High-Quality Fonts - Smashing Magazine

FCC’s Net Neutrality Order Finally Passes, Many Disappointed

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:21:06 -0500

FCC’s Net Neutrality Order Finally Passes, Many Disappointed

Duggan Media Blog: 3 Tools to Export Twitter Search Results to Excel

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:54:06 -0500

Duggan Media Blog: 3 Tools to Export Twitter Search Results to Excel:

Thanks for the tips!
dugganmedia:

Further details and comparisons on their site. They also didn’t mention rowfeeder.com, which I’ve been using and works great with google docs spreadsheets.

Thx for reading!
- Chuck
Amplify’d from www.searchenginejournal.com
Further details and comparisons on their…

Here’s another… Which are most helpful to you? Do we...

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:24:53 -0500

Here’s another… Which are most helpful to you? Do we need the FCC to play a bigger role at this point in time?

mhandy1:

Robert M. McDowell: The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom - WSJ.com

An interesting op-ed on the state of net-neutrality. The issue and threat it seems to me comes not from companies preventing access but governments. Im not sure we should be adding a level of regulation to this, it doesn’t make sense. Censorship in this new world will create issues, significant ones. I imagine it will only be a matter of time before the UN creates an IMF style org to oversea the digital world. When/if that happens I have significant concerns about the freedom in a broader sense…

What do you think is net-neutrality an issue where we say it’s not broke don’t fix it?

8 Tools For Easily Creating a Mobile Version of Your Website

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:25:53 -0500

8 Tools For Easily Creating a Mobile Version of Your Website:

Has anyone used these? What do you think is the hardest element to translate from a computer to a mobile device?

I know, right?

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:10:19 -0500

I know, right?

Love the graphic design. It looks like Netherlands/ Denmark...

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:27:06 -0500

Love the graphic design. It looks like Netherlands/ Denmark designs from days of old…
weandthecolor:

Monocle - Finland Survey

by Vesa Sammalisto

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FCC set to back Internet traffic rules

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:50:06 -0500

FCC set to back Internet traffic rules:

We’ll try and post some different perspectives on the FCC meetings and talks throughout the next couple of days. Here’s 1! …

world-shaker:

The rules would ban high-speed Internet providers like Comcast Corp and Verizon Communications from blocking lawful traffic, while recognizing the need to manage network congestion and perhaps charge based on Internet usage.

(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal, which is in negotiations to be acquired by Comcast.)

The rules, to be somewhat looser for wireless Internet, could help cable companies in competition with plans by Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Amazon.com to deliver competing video content over the same Internet lines the cable companies run to customers’ homes.

In other words, the FCC and the Obama Administration buckled when it came to ensuring that all data is treated equally on the Internet. This opens the door for a la carte Internet service. Want YouTube? That’s $9 extra a month. Google? $5. Email? $6 (or you could just use our service which is free!).

BS, through and through.

Facebook and YouTube win the “Fancy” awards for...

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:32:56 -0500

Facebook and YouTube win the “Fancy” awards for taking Park Ave’s spot.

socialmediaoptimist:

[Benjamin Christine]

FCC Expected To OK 'Net Neutrality' Rules Today : The Two-Way : NPR

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:15:34 -0500

FCC Expected To OK 'Net Neutrality' Rules Today : The Two-Way : NPR:

Waiting to see what actually happens…

How Twitter Use Has Changed, From 2009 to 2010

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:11:05 -0500

How Twitter Use Has Changed, From 2009 to 2010:

Take a looksie…

world-shaker:

It’s been a good year for Twitter, and not merely because the company announced yesterday it has secured another huge round of funding. The microblogging platform has grown by over 100 million users this year and expanded its staff from 130 to 350 people. And it’s rolled out major redesigns and improvements to its site, mobile apps and APIs.

People who created a Twitter profile before January 2009 now account for just 4.7% of the total Twitter population. That’s one of the findings in a new study by the social media analytics and monitoring service Sysomos that examines over 1 billion tweets from 2010 and compares the data with Twitter usage in 2009. So how has the influx of new users changed the ways in which Twitter is used?

The results of the study suggest we may be disclosing more personal information in our profiles and following more people, but even as more people have joined, most Twitter activity still comes from a very small number of users.

Twitter Users Disclose More Information in Their Profiles

The number of Twitter users who provide personal information in their bios has more than doubled since last year; 82% of Twitter users now provide a name, compared with only 33% in 2009. And 73% provide location information, compared to 44% in 2009. Forty five percent give a website address, up from 22% a year ago. This seems to indicate that Twitter users are becoming more comfortable disclosing personal information on the site, but more importantly perhaps, that having a profile on Twitter is becoming increasingly important.

Of course, one of the most popular two-word phrases in personal profiles is “Justin Bieber,” so I’m not sure we can argue that this is all about professional networking.

More Followers and Following

The vast majority of Twitter users - 95.8% - follow less than 500 people. Only 0.05% follow more than 10,000. The number of users who follow less than five people has decreased considerably from last year, from 37% to 21%, while the number who follow more than 100 people has increased three-fold to 21%.

Only 0.06% of Twitter users have more than 20,000 followers, and only 2.12% have more than 1,000 followers. Again, the vast majority of Twitter users - 95.9% - have less than 500 followers. But users with less than five followers decreased from 46% to 32% between 2010 and 2009, and users with more than 100 followers has more than doubled, up from 7% to 16%.

Who’s Doing All the Tweeting?

Of all Twitter users, only 0.18% have made more than 25,000 tweets, and 2.7% have made more than 5,000 tweets. More than three-quarters of Twitters users - 80.6% - have tweeted fewer than 500 times. What Sysomos calls “a small hard-core group” - 2.2% of Twitter users - have accounted for 58.3% of all tweets, while 22.5% of Twitter users have accounted for about 90% of all activity in 2010.

In 2009, Sysomos reported that 5% of users accounted for 75% of all activity, 10% account for 86% of activity, and the top 30% account for 97.4%.

Although the figures have changed someone, the shape of the graphic is still the same, with a few users dominating Twitter activity. According to Sysomos, many of those top tweeters are automatic feed generators.

As Twitter continues to become more mainstream, will we see more people tweeting? Or simply, as the change from last year to this year suggests, more people just following along?

What are you asking Santa for this year??radstake: Christmas...

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:27:06 -0500

What are you asking Santa for this year??
radstake:

Christmas For Geeks

Groupon + Music

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:41:06 -0500

I wondered when Groupon would start tailoring to a few different audiences that tend to maybe have more online sales. What changes do you think this brings to the daily coupon email craze?
entrepreneuradvocate:

Amazon can’t be happy about this. The exclusive early release is a big part of their business and now people have a passive way to gain access via Groupon.

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The 25 Best Twitter Users of 2010 :: Blogs :: List of the Day :: Paste

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:37:54 -0500

The 25 Best Twitter Users of 2010 :: Blogs :: List of the Day :: Paste:

A list you may not have seen yet. Follow some of these to make your Mondays a little brighter :)

Word-of-Mouth Has Greatest Effect on Moms - eMarketer

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:06:17 -0500

Word-of-Mouth Has Greatest Effect on Moms - eMarketer:

Women do love to talk, don’t they? And listen… Take a look.

WordPress Rolls Out New HTML5-Friendly Theme

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:53:06 -0500

WordPress Rolls Out New HTML5-Friendly Theme

Geometric is here to stay. Design...

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:57:16 -0500

Geometric is here to stay. Design accordingly.

weandthecolor:

International Graphic Design

Poster designed by Brian Leuck, Kayo Takasugi, design firm of Grady, Campbell, Inc. for Novum Structures. Image from Graphis Poster Annual 2007, creative director, B. Martin Pederson, published by Graphis Inc.

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"The top benefits of social media marketing: The number-one advantage of social media marketing (by..."

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:55:34 -0500

“The top benefits of social media marketing: The number-one advantage of
social media marketing (by a long shot) is generating exposure for the business,
indicated by 85% of all marketers, followed by increasing traffic (63%) and
building new business partnerships (56%)”

- http://marketingwhitepapers.s3.amazonaws.com/SocialMediaMarketingReport2010.pdf