The Social 7 - Episode 02
Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode - number two - of The Social 7, recapping the top seven stories in social media and marketing from the past week (and due to Thanksgiving, the past two weeks!) Let us know what you think, and if you have a tip for next week be sure to e-mail us!
Top 7 Stories
7. YouTube Live: A live concert broadcast on YouTube on 11/22/08. Did YouTube’s live stream live up to expectations?
6. Facebook Acquiring Twitter Rumors: Wait, what? Facebook acquiring Twitter? Guess again. After several weeks of speculation and an offer of $500 million in Facebook stock that Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams declined, the merge is officially off the table.
5. Top 10 iPhone App Downloads: With the year coming to a close and more than 10,000 iPhone apps currently available (and 300 million downloaded), Apple’s had a pretty good year. Last week the company announced its top 10 iPhone app downloads of 2008.
4. Top Yahoo Searches: Also last week, Yahoo! released a list of their top 10 searches for both mobile and Web. Arrington said it best: “Please, people, stop typing Britney Spears Into Search Boxes.” (Come on, just type her name into Twitter instead!)
3. YouTube and Ning Censoring Content: This week both YouTube and Ning “say no to sex” with enhanced censorship guidelines.
2. Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect: A big step in data portability this week, both Google and Facebook launched their own open ID initiatives - Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect.
1. Tweeting from Mumbai: Twitter makes a huge impact as a medium for citizen journalism during the Mumbai tragedy.
Tweet of the Week:
As we talked about in our top story of the week, there were tons of Tweets coming out of Mumbai - this one from @anilenand is one of the first: announcing the killing of the anti-terrorist bureau chief and the start of the siege.
Social Shutterbug of the Week:
Following a tweet fromt the LAFD about a “photo opp”, someone managed to snap this picture of an SUV that ended up on top of two other cars. Thankfully, no one was hurt.
An SUV ends up sitting atop two cars at Pico and Robertson in LA
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We chatted internally about building a review site for iPhone Apps, but to our dismay it already exists somewhat - http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/
This is a good overview of the week in social media and web. I enjoyed the intro also to the episode.
How about taking questions from readers and doing a section on that?
nice job all involved!
cheers
BJ