OK… it’s not really a secret other than 95% of Americans don’t know about #tcot and #p2. They may have heard about Twitter but this “secret” war is only known to tech-savvy political geeks and junkies.
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As Mark Zuckerberg’s giant moves to conquer every realm of social media, one pioneer has taken a huge hit—Digg. Joshua Robinson on how Facebook is acting like mean old Microsoft.
How do you take the social web by storm in a day, winning over even the coldest of hearts and gaining international acclaim - with commercials?
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc plans to integrate Twitter into its collection of websites, as the company seeks to enhance the appeal of its online properties with popular social networking features.
The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for tax delinquents, copyright infringers and political protesters. A public interest group has filed a lawsuit to learn more about this monitoring, in the hope of starting a national discussion and modifying privacy laws as necessary for the online era.
The same was true back in 1963. Watch the entire Cronkite broadcast below. You’ll notice he says things like, “their [the President and Texas Governor Connally] condition is as yet unknown.” The report than switches over to KLRD in Texas where they note, “as you can imagine, there are many stories that are coming in now as to the actual condition of the President. One is that he is dead.” That was not known as the time, and was not known until much later in the broadcast.
Did anyone care that they were stating unconfirmed things on the air? No. In fact, had they not, everyone would have turned to another channel. The point is that people want this information. Should a disclaimer be included that it’s just a report or unconfirmed? Of course, but it was today, just as it was back in 1963.
The difference is that had the Kennedy assassination happened today, it would not have taken 38 minutes from the time of President Kennedy being declared dead to the time Cronkite broke the news on the air. Actually, it may have. But it would have been reported on services like Twitter much sooner. Had it played out that way, where do you think people would turn the next time there was an event unfolding in realtime?
MC Siegler, In The Age Of Realtime, Twitter Is Walter Cronkite (via soupsoup)
Open Eyes, Open Heart, Open Mind. Thanks for the DCT shoutout!
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Few U.S. small businesses have adopted social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter for business uses, according to research released Thursday.
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It’s now a trending topic on twitter. They’ll hit 1 million “demands” (whatever they’re calling it) easily. A reminder: they made the film for under 15k.
From Wired:
Eventful.com is hosting the online Paranormal Activity vote that promises to send the movie to a wider audience if said audience asks for it.
It’s safe to theorize that what seems like democracy in action for horror movie fans is clever online marketing. Check out who’s behind the promotion of this little movie. It was picked up for distribution by Dreamworks and Paramount. The big studios don’t acquire movies to dump them in art houses. But they’ll certainly release a film gradually to build buzz if it lacks star power.
And from Itzkoff:
Over the weekend, Paramount said that “Paranormal Activity” sold out all of its midnight screenings in 33 cities, earning $535,000 in ticket sales or about $16,000 per screen. Starting Friday, the studio said, it will expand the film to 40 markets where it will be shown at all hours.
Whatever the terms of their arrangement with Paramount, that’s gotta feel good.
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It’s now a trending topic on twitter. They’ll hit 1 million “demands” (whatever they’re calling it) easily. A reminder: they made the film for under 15k.
From Wired:
Eventful.com is hosting the online Paranormal Activity vote that promises to send the movie to a wider audience if said audience asks for it.
It’s safe to theorize that what seems like democracy in action for horror movie fans is clever online marketing. Check out who’s behind the promotion of this little movie. It was picked up for distribution by Dreamworks and Paramount. The big studios don’t acquire movies to dump them in art houses. But they’ll certainly release a film gradually to build buzz if it lacks star power.
And from Itzkoff:
Over the weekend, Paramount said that “Paranormal Activity” sold out all of its midnight screenings in 33 cities, earning $535,000 in ticket sales or about $16,000 per screen. Starting Friday, the studio said, it will expand the film to 40 markets where it will be shown at all hours.
Whatever the terms of their arrangement with Paramount, that’s gotta feel good.
SmarterCities launched last week as a platform to submit your ideas for local change. It’s an enthusiastic and valuable idea, and it was a pleasure working with the smart folks at IBM to get this project on its feet.
It was fun using as many colors as I could think of. Can you find all 6,000?
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever. If you ask around, as I did, you’ll find quitters. One person shut down her account because she disliked how nosy it made her. Another thought the scene had turned desperate. A third feared stalkers. A fourth believed his privacy was compromised. A fifth disappeared without a word.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Indignant letters, e-mails and phone calls can still get results for unhappy airline travelers, but more are finding that if you really want to vent your frustrations, you can now be loud and fast and public.
Really? Twitter can keep people from taking machetes to their neighbors? And sending and receiving 140-character messages will make us empathize? The assumptions underlying all of these statements are precisely the same assumptions that underlay the praise of the telegraph a hundred and fifty years ago: that one group of people cannot have fundamentally different interests than any other group; that any conflict is the product of insufficient information; that the provision of sufficient information will immediately end any conflict; that familiarity inevitably breeds not contempt but affection and respect; that human beings are naturally filled with compassion and simply require a technology sufficiently powerful to release that compassion. But — alas — none of these assumptions is true.
The New Atlantis (via azspot)
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