Aaron took us through his work, from his student days at UCLA where he worked on projects including the visualization of US flight patterns , to his work at Yahoo! and now Google Creative Labs (I’m sure some of you have seen the collapsing Google page experiments, which can be seen at  Chrome Experiments  - there are tons more and some of them are a lot of fun to look at, so you should!). There’s a lot of information Data visualization artist Aaron Koblin gave a talk at BBH London yesterday which, being in the same building, we were lucky enough to be able to attend.  A

Whilst Google Alerts provide a useful source for the latest items that are indexed by its search engine, to understand properly what is being discussed by your brand it is worthwhile investing in some detailed buzz tracking . It analyzes and reports on daily trends within the blogosphere. BoardTracker – A useful tool for scanning and tracking within forums. Commentful – This service watches comments/follow-ups on Blog posts and similar content such as Flickr or Digg. FriendFeed Search – Scans all FriendFeed activity. Google Alerts –Daily or real-time

Google (105) Yahoo! Tags: Matt Rhodes Social Media altimeter group Brand Business charline li co-creation customer communities EBay facebook freshminds FreshNetworks Google Microsoft online communities online consultation social media social networking starbucks Thomson Reuters Twitter Virtual community web2.0 word of mouth Yaho Image by communista_unicorn via Flickr There are some great examples of brands using social media that we use a lot at FreshNetworks .

ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives R/WW Thanksgiving: Thank You Google for Open Social (Or, Why Open Social Really Matters) Written by Alex Iskold / November 22, 2007 8:39 AM / 13 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » When Google and others ganged up on

ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Box.net Adds Collaboration, Takes Aim at Google Docs Written by Sarah Perez / February 7, 2008 8:41 AM / 5 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » After being in development for months, Box.net has officially released the

There were high hopes last week that Google Wave would provide an invigorating dip in the collaborative ocean - but by all accounts, an encounter with Wave is as likely to leave you winded on the beach , with your swimmies round your ankles. Up to 21 million users of Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail accounts were warned they were at risk of fraud, after 10,000 passwords were grabbed by a fake website which was designed to look identical to Hotmail’s. Welcome to our round-up of all that's new, controversial or just plain weird on the social media scene in the last few days. THE HEADLINES… The blogosphere was abuzz this week after the US Federal Trade Commission ordered Celebs and Bloggers to ‘fess up if they’ve been paid to plug - or face a whopping $11,000 fine.

Does the Google brand have enough personality to cut it on Twitter? I’m not having a good relationship with Google on Twitter so far. And here’s Yahoo’s reaction: ...Tags: Tags: dysfunctional Google Uncategorized men brand personality Yahoo twitte Math weirdos amongst you will no doubt find this hi-lar-i-ous but I just found it remote and even a tiny bit chilling. I’m not sure - their binary code greeting makes 2001’s HAL computer seem well-adjusted.

Tags: Business communitycreation google interaction yaho So, I read with interest Matt McCallister's plaint last week about how long it is taking RSS to reach the mainstream. The weird thing is that by many measures, RSS is mainstream but just not widely recognized as such . After all, 31% of the online population use it, it's just that 90% of this group don't know they are doing it.

Then, while the social world was rearranging its expression to read ‘not in the slightest bit surprised, saw it coming a mile off actually’, came whammy two: Google is about to do precisely the same thing. The CIA has invested in social monitoring company Visible Technologies. At a Yahoo-hosted hack weekend for developers in Taiwan, company-hired lap-dancers provided the entertainment. Welcome to eModeration's digest of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media. This week we have capitulated to popular demand: we will now be posting bite-size

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