21% of Twitter Users Are Active, 34% Have Never Tweeted

by Andy Wibbels on March 11, 2010

From Barracuda Labs: (via Mashable)

  • 21% are active users, having tweeted in the past 10 days
  • 26% have ten or more followers
  • 40% following 10 or more users
  • 73% tweeted less than ten minutes

Twitter’s main activity comes from 1/4 of their user base.

via The Truth About the Average Twitter User

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Facebook Cheatsheet

by Andy Wibbels on March 8, 2010

Facebook Cheatsheet Mindmap

You’re not crazy: Facebook’s interface is hard to learn. Sure posting things and sharing is pretty straighforward, but if you want to figure out what goes where and who can see it, that is a bit more of a challenge. I took some time on the plane to Charlotte to put together a cheatsheet. Click here to download the Facebook Cheatsheet (PDF, 135kb).

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Why You Can’t Get Anything Done

March 5, 2010


Why You Can’t Work at Work by Jason Fried from Big Think.

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Head Guy at Google: PageRank is ‘Over-hyped’

March 3, 2010

From The Register:
Google research head Peter Norvig says that the search giant’s hallowed PageRank link-analysis algorithm is overrated. And always has been. ”People think we just do this computation on the web graph and order all the pages and that’s it. That computation is important, but it’s just one thing that we do. ”People [webmasters and SEOs] [...]

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Why People Hate the Music Industry

March 3, 2010

From David Jack Leichardt
I strolled into the store, located the CD I was after, paid for it in cash and left. At no stage was I asked to sign a licensing agreement – not even a post-sale agreement like those for software… “No,” cries the music industry, “you are bound by the licensing agreement that [...]

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1 in 5 Small Businesses Using Social Media

March 3, 2010

Mashable reports on a study from The University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business
The study concludes that one nearly one in five small business owners are integrating social media into their business processes — Facebook and LinkedIn were the most popular sites. In fact, 45% of surveyed respondents even believe their social media initiatives will [...]

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Comedy, Chaos and Indifference

March 2, 2010

Improv Everywhere is a New York-based comedy group that executes missions like Human Mirror:

Comedian Paul F. Tompkins takes Improv Everywhere to task:
I am not a fan of chaos. Personally, chaos makes me nervous, because it makes things seem downright chaotic. I don’t equate fun with uneasiness. So I’ve never been a fan of IE.
Charlie Todd [...]

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Scott Adams on Madness and the Entrepreneurial Spirit

March 2, 2010

The Dilbert scribe:
There’s a fine line between crazy and entrepreneurial. If you bark at the moon to make it go away, you are considered crazy. But if you start a business for which there is less than a 5% chance of success, you are considered an entrepreneur. If you feel the need to turn a light [...]

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Social Media Users Check Email More Frequently

March 2, 2010

Email ain’t dead – it is amplified and broadened with social media sharing:
People who use social media actually check their email more frequently than those that do not: 42% of social media users check their email four times a day or more, compared to just 27% of those that don’t use social media. Even better news [...]

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Big-Ass Buttons Increase Social Sharing

March 2, 2010

World Nomad changed the way they do sharing buttons. It doubled the sharing of the content:

Data:
Facebook accounted for more than half of all sharing; Email was popular but declining; Digg was used by a minority of people, but was a powerful traffic driver when used; The team also added a “+” button to reveal dozens of lesser-known [...]

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