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Digital Digs 14/03/11

A micro-digest of what's new and emerging

Facebook Insights Gets Real-Time Analytics
Facebook took new steps this past week to boost advantages for those using Facebook plugins. We can now dive deeper into analytics and do so in real time, which is so much better than the previous three-day lag.
Deeper, Faster

Turning the Page: How Digital Technology is Changing the Way We Read
Sideways provides statistics and demographics for who’s using what to absorb content. This will surely be outdated in mere months, but right now it’s pretty interesting.
Read On

LinkedIn Is About To Make Headlines
A call to action for all that LinkedIn could be in this time of social network upheaval. Also look out for LinkedIn news.
LinkedIn Gets Informative

Tsunami Devastates Japan: How Social Media Reacted
A comprehensive report on what social networks’ reactions were to last week’s terrible disaster in Japan. The most progressive? Google People Finder.
How the World Reacted

SXSW 2011: 4Chan founder Christopher Poole on Anonymity and Creativity
SXSW 2011 is in full swing down in Austin. This seems to be the most talked about keynote so far. And 4Chan vs. other news sources is always a hot debate around our office.
4Chan for Good? 

 

Digital Digs 07/03/11

A micro-digest of what's new and emerging

Improving Comments Across The Web
Continuing to pull the entire Internet into its realm, Facebook updated the utilization of comments this week. This makes it easier to see what friends are into and, of course, share news at a greater pace.
Tell Them How You Feel

#Winning
Don’t know what #winning is? You’re slacking. Scott Monty has aggregated the top stories on #winning for your viewing pleasure. Link to David Armano’s “Winning the Web” to debate what the message to this madness may be.
What’s Winning?

Rethink Realizer Unleashed Online
Rethink and Nascent released a handy little app last week. The Realizer lets you view realistic prototypes of apps, which is something much needed across the industry.
Handy!

Men vs. Women on Facebook
Get up to date on your stats. You know a client’s going to ask a related question in a meeting and you’re going to wish you opened this link. So do it. Now.
Know your Facebook

YouTube Time Machine
Came across this fantastic website. It’s a great reference, full of commercials and everything else displaying the culture of the times. Careful though, you can easily get lost for hours.
Looking Back

Digital Digs 28/02/11

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'Organic' SXSW Blogger Buzz? More Like Marketing Astroturf
If it’s not on Facebook, Tweeted and blogged about, then it didn’t happen. That’s the view Chevrolet is taking and why they’re going to great lengths to be sure they’re presence at SXSW is known.
Engaging Pros

All of Facebook’s Like Buttons on Third-Party Sites Now Publish a Full News Feed Story
New functionality of the “Like” button on web pages will post a more compelling, larger story on Facebook user’s walls, increasing views and traffic to the website.
You Better Like This

And the Winner of the Academy Award Goes to... Real-Time Social Streams?
What did we ever do before Twitter? Wait for the morning after at the water-cooler, like shlubs, really. With an overtly boring Oscars in the books, it seems that Twitter had more entertaining content than the broadcast could have ever hoped for.
The Real Show

Kontagent Adds Real Time Monitoring To Facebook Analytics Platform
There are big benefits to seeing real time analytics for application developers, community managers and advertisers.
Analyze Now

Fabricate Yourself: Using the Microsoft Kinect to 3D Print Yourself
This could be the next super sought-after toy for the holiday season. Or it could be a fleeting gimmick. It’s hard to say right now but cool and promising nonetheless.
Potentially Most Wanted

 

Digital Digs 22/02/11

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Ken Jennings Explains How Watson Defeated Him
The best Jeopardy contestant mankind has seen play the game was defeated this past week by a machine. A machine, it seems, that has similar, human-like thought process.
Man vs. Machine

How Netflix Beat Blockbuster
Blockbuster requires saving from bankruptcy. Here’s a visualization on why this is so.
Sinking Ship

Twistory Puts Your Tweets In Your Calendar, Lets You Export Them For A Fee
A potentially useful tool for tracking what was said when – something we’ll check out and give you a full report on in the coming weeks.
Look Back and Observe

Skype Hits New Record: Approaching 30 Million Concurrent Users
Despite apparent rapid growth, there’s still so much more Skype could be used for.
User Boom

New Radiohead Album Available One Day Early
The band that challenged the music industry norm and came out on top in 2007 was at it again last week with a new release. Having full control and pushing your album out a day early bodes well for fan engagement. Go figure.
Hype Machine

Digital Digs 14/02/11

Happy Valentines Day! Nothing about that in here, just wanted to tell you anyways. 

Capital C’s Digital Digs – A micro digest of what's new and emerging in marketing, technology and strategy.

Facebook Launches Pages Redesign
While it’s not mandatory until next month, Facebook has launched a new design for all brand pages that mimics the user account. On the top level it’s now really easy to make a brand page look sexy. What’s more – community managers can now use and interact on Facebook as the brand.
Be the Brand
Side note – check out what we did with XOXO within 24 hours of launch.

IBM Supercomputer Challenges Humans on TV Quiz
It’s really a system of computers, connected by the cloud, with terabytes of memory storage named Watson. Tonight we’ll not only see that computers can speak and understand humans, but that they can understand themselves.
Run for the Hills

Check Out These Cool Interactive 3D Ads Coming To Your iPad
Awesome capabilities displayed for the iPad.
Ads That Pop

Finally: Facebook Co-Founder Opens the Curtain on Two-Year Old Asana
It’s Facebook for work, in the short. But look closer and Asana will get you excited for the potential it presents for organizing your workflow.
How We’ll Get Things Done

New Radiohead Album to Defy Music Industry. Again.
There’s no stopping Radiohead’s understanding of their fans, their industry and how to capitalize while staying cool. Read up on what a “Newspaper Album” is.
Blow Out