Social media’s latest ethical thorn bush comes courtesy of Australia’s Hugh Thomas, a popular YouTube videomaker who posted up a video blog based on the (ironically titled) US drama Lie To Me – without disclosing that he was paid to do it by 20th Century Fox. And off the back of his vlog, scores of [...]
Hide & Seek is London’s first pervasive games festival, founded in 2007. Last night it hit the ICA with The Sandpit, a series of on and offline games exploring ‘how growing up pressing buttons and playing video and online games has changed what we want from the culture we consume’ – so Mike R, Si [...]
‘Word of mouth’ has become all but synonymous with ‘social media’ because of the global spread of the web. It’s a blinkered view – our offline conversations have a different but equal impact and value – but understandable when brands are looking for conversations to cross continents in seconds like never before. As eMarketer announces [...]
The social computing papers that come out of HP Labs’ advanced research group are always worth a look, and the most recent study, ‘Blogging at work and the corporate attention economy’ is a good read for any brand looking to build a conversational company from within. The paper notes that “while many corporations are looking [...]
1000heads divvied ourselves up between as many UK based Twestival’s as we could and headed yonder last Thursday. Needless to say a grand time was had by all judging from what we saw at Edinburgh, Reading, Birmingham, Oxford, Bristol, London and Brighton Twestival was a grand success. My own personal experience was one of delight [...]
Well not quite, although Facebook has recently changed its terms and conditions to include a section granting them control over all the content you’ve ever created on-site – even after you’ve unsubscribed. “You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, [...]
What do Jeremy Paxman and Clay Shirky have in common? A sharp line in city psychology, and one that’s got me thinking about social media as an evolution of urban ideology. Bear with me, now. Having spotted Shirky’s comment in yesterday’s Observer that ‘the internet brings to everywhere some of the conundrums of dense city [...]
Interesting to see how business social networking has benefitted from the economic downturn thus far. According to TechCrunch, LinkedIn’s recommendations on-site are up a whopping 65% since December as is traffic by over one fifth. Quite a bounce…
Insightful short think-piece from Chris Brogan on the natural ebb and flow of conversations: “Conversations ebb and flow. Our interest levels in something come and go. Our attraction to something can come and go. It’s part of life” As he points out, you can’t expect people to be interested in, or talking about, everything all [...]
Tonight 175+ cities around the world will be hosting Twestivals which bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for the charity Water. Why are we telling you this I hear you ask, well, there will be representatives from 1000heads going to Twestivals all over the UK. Working [...]
