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The point is that new tools in general, and Twitter in particular, greatly challenge the binary dichotomy of attention as something that is either given or taken away, distracted. Instead, these tools allow us to direct attention to destinations where it can be sustained with more concentration and immersion

As you'll see, Thomas' infographic shows the current size of major social networks as well as the other well-known online services we use on a daily basis relative to their peers. It also overlays the present size of each company's mobile user base. You'll see Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, MySpace, LinkedIn, and more. You can also check out the agency's infographic from last year to see the relative changes.

Skills Tasmania Conference 2011

An old colleague and member of a group I belong to posted this. I think it is brilliant to see museum stuff online. She wrote: Amazing how they have integrated the online and physical exhibitions, included multimedia to good effect, and software such as a 'page turner' to allow users to page through Mary Shelley's original hand written pages of Frankenstein. They have embedded social media (facebook, twitter tags etc), and performance measuring software such as Google Analytics. There was a central core team of 6 staff members in Oxford, they used outside companies for the web design and development, as well as user testing in two phases. It took about 5.5 months to create the online exhibition and cost around £30 000 - not bad considering its sophistication and the extent of materials that had to be digitised.