"Sausage Party looks at your upcoming Facebook events and rigorously assesses their respective sausage ratings on a 0 to 5 sausage scale."
..finally. FB Events and FB Connect has a purpose! Funniest thing I've seen all day. ht: @ratherfancy
I printed this out and taped it on my cube wall. Sometimes, it's these little reminders that can make a difference. :)
Here are some of our observations on share button usage among the top blogs.
- Both Twitter and Facebook buttons are now more common that Digg buttons.
- Digg is no longer the king of social sharing, at least as far as these 100 blogs are concerned.
- Twitter is the most common share button. Two thirds of the top 100 blogs have a dedicated “share on Twitter” option.
- A Facebook share button is present on 58 of the top 100 blogs. In most cases, it’s coupled with a Twitter button.
- Digg buttons are present on just under half of the top 100 blogs. While we don’t know what this looked like a couple of years ago, an educated guess is that this used to be a higher number.
- Digg buttons are twice as common as Reddit or StumbleUpon buttons.
58 of the top 100 blogs include a general, expandable share this button; 19 of those blogs have no other share buttons.
- Dedicated MySpace and LinkedIn share buttons are rare, but they do show up in some of the blogs. We didn’t include them in this survey, though.
- 6 of the top 100 blogs have no sharing options at all.
- Email buttons are very common. We didn’t include “email this article” buttons since we focused on share options connected to specific services (like Digg and Twitter), but they were actually more common than we thought they would be. Had we included them, they would have been among the top sharing options.
- The war of the Buzzes. The “other” Buzz, the Digg clone from Yahoo, is currently a much more popular share option than Google Buzz, which only showed up on six blogs.
On top of all that, they also get (free gourmet) food, three times a day... with a snack attack. That sometimes includes tater tots. In case you didn't know, their culinary team posts daily menus. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous... #grassisalways
The Facebook analytics on the fan page are excellent but not as comprehensive (and clear) as Google Analytics. This is nothing but #WIN
"[...]the new study suggests that a chemical in pork products and eggs can help the baby's growing brain to develop.
Scientists at the University of North Carolina have discovered that the micronutrient, called choline, is vital in helping babies in the womb develop parts of their brains linked to memory and recall.
In a study of the effects of choline on the brains of baby mice, those fed small doses of choline while in the womb had genetic differences to those given large amounts."
ht @baconsalt
"[...]the new study suggests that a chemical in pork products and eggs can help the baby's growing brain to develop.
Scientists at the University of North Carolina have discovered that the micronutrient, called choline, is vital in helping babies in the womb develop parts of their brains linked to memory and recall.
In a study of the effects of choline on the brains of baby mice, those fed small doses of choline while in the womb had genetic differences to those given large amounts."
"In September 2008 at Web 2.0 Expo in New York, I shared something that many, to this day, believe to the contrary, “There is no such thing as viral marketing.”
The declaration was empathetic in its direction to those marketers who have been on the receiving end of directives instructing them to create and unleash viral content. In parallel, the statement was aimed at those decision makers who assign such projects.
Content, no matter how brilliant, creative, abstract, or controversial, is not inherently viral. Yet, we’re asked repeatedly to create viral videos, posts, and other social objects that will trigger an endless array of retweets, pages and profiles that immediately attract fans and followers accompanied by a deafening wall of sound propelled by word of mouth.
Content doesn’t make something viral; people are the primary source of powering social objects across the attention nodes that connect the human network.
Despite what appears commonsensical, we’re surprised when our brainchild doesn’t attract the views, attention, and circulation we believe it deserves.
The reality of social media is this, in the attention economy, information isn’t randomly discovered and broadly disseminated. It is strategically positioned to either appear when someone searches for a related keyword or it’s presented to someone manually and deliberately.
As individuals, we no longer find information, it finds us."
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