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Alex Street

BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter, and Facebook Usage Stats from RIM - BerryReview - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 05 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Facebook for BlackBerry has 33.4 million monthly active users
  • 7.2 million Twitter for BlackBerry active users
Alex Street

Fans Crack Twitter Code for Sneak Peek at New Batman Film - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 22 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • lack screen accompanied by a track featuring eerie chanting
  • udio program to discover that the spectrum in the audio spells out “#thefirerises
  • ashtag led the fan to the Twitter accou
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  • un-of-the-mill snap; it’s composed of Twitter or Fac
Alex Street

Twitter hype punctured by study - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 05 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90%
  • 10 million users
  • On a typical online social network, he said, the top 10% of users accounted for 30% of all production
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  • arvard data says very, very few people tweet and the Nielsen data says very, very few people listen consistently
  • Twitter is a broadcast medium rather than an intimate conversation with friend
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    Content and users that drive 
Alex Street

Mainstream media drive Twitter trending topics - Blogs & Content - BizReport - 0 views

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  • mainstream media brand authors from the likes of CNN and the New York Times start conversations and drive a disproportionately high number of Twitter trending topic
  • HP's Social Computing Research Group
  • 72%) of those accounts belonged, not to prolific tweeters or those will mass followings, but to mainstream media brands such as CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) and New York Times (@nytimes)
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  • 31% of tweets of trending topics are retweets
Alex Street

BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Introducing the all new BBC iPlayer (This time it's personal) - 0 views

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  • simpler to use, personalised and social.
  • iPlayer V2,
  • main problems we had to solve were largely technical things like:
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  • Twitterverse is becoming the tastemaker.
  • available i
  • ideo quality
  • reliability of video delivery
  • dealing with massive peak loads
  • iPlayer V2 hosting platform was also designed to scale across multiple platforms
  • Actual Availability,
  • scaling to 1.5 million users,
  • 15 million page views delivering over 1.1 billion(!) minutes of video each month
  • Two years ago when we launched iPlayer our goals and challenges were largely technical - scalability, reliability, video encoding
  • next set of challenges was not so much technical as social
  • "As people begin moving from television to the web, what happens to the role of the linear TV scheduler as the tastemaker
  • platform capable
  • the scheduler is the leading tastemaker.
  • iPlayer does a fine job of satisfying the time-shifted desires
  • BBC schedulers create the desire to watch a programme; iPlayer lets you see it at a time that's convenient to you
  • what if you no longer watched linear TV? Who becomes the tastemaker then?
  • largely theoretical problem
  • iPlayer home page that feels almost more like an application than a traditional web site
  • in the world of YouTube where there is no master scheduler who can shape demand.
  • clear evidence that linear TV created the demand while iPlayer satisfied it.
  • wanted it to become a driver of demand, s
  • The question then is, in a world which cannot be driven by schedulers
  • if schedulers are going to be augmented by your friends as drivers of consumption in the future, the challenge for the team was to integrate friends and social into the iPlayer
  • delights both early adopters and the mainstream audience.
  • folded your personal experience into the fabric of the main site
  • o integrate with Facebook and other social networks
  • make the recommendations and social graph visible within iPlayer,
  • addition of course to any external activity.
  • solution we came up with was to create a BBC login - known as BBC iD
  • can then connect with Facebook, Twitter
  • expandable Favourites zone
  • designed Favourites to be like your mail Inbox, showing the total number of items, how many are newly arrived,
  • rely on Favourites to give me a constant stream of things to watch
  • ll your favourites and other settings can roam across all the devices on which you use iPlayer.
  • So now if I'm bored sitting in a train on the way home, I can look for new programmes to watch, add them to my Favourites,
  • Personalised iPlayer home page
  • default view that everyone sees to something that's, well, just for you.
  • iPlayer traffic is doubling each year, it still only accounts for 2-3% of linear TV viewing.
  • Featured and Most Popular
  • For You and Friends:
  • iPlayer homepage into the tastemaker of your choice
  • connect iPlayer to your Facebook and/or Twitter social graph
  • Player home page to meet the needs of a mainstream audience looking for editorialised
  • My Categories
  • he iPlayer server will keep a lookout for any new content in your selected categories
  • big increase in live TV viewing in iPlayer - and with the upcoming World Cup being a huge driver of live online viewing
  • new Live Viewing page
  • fuel for the Friends drawer on the iPlayer home page
  • something that for some will be the killer feature of the new site
  • sync your iPlayer with theirs
  • Shout button - a
  • shouts only go to your Messenger friends who are in iPlayer right now
  • Watch with Friends is being added to the site in the next few weeks - stay tuned!
  • adaptive bitrate system
  • ch automatically adjusts
  • Adobe's upcoming Flash 10.1 release with H.264 hardware acceleratio
  • New iPlayer Desktop
  • Series Downloads and live radio & TV.
  • favourite programmes already downloaded to your computer ready to view when you're offline
  • Player Desktop will now automatically download every future episode for you
  • new feature in iPlayer Desktop for live TV
  • BBC's 17 network and national radio stations..
  • I am moving on to become CTO of Project Canvas, and this is the last major piece of work
Alex Street

Skype - The Big Blog - Insight archive - 0 views

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  • Facebook and Skype launched Facebook video calling, powered by Skype
  • we broke the 27 million barrier, we’ve done it again. At approximately 1800 GMT today, there were over 28 million people online
  • Skype to Skype minutes was equivalent to an estimated 24.7% of the international PSTN c
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  • 2009, our users spoke, stared and sung for 113 billion Skype-to-Skype minutes
  • 40% of Skype-to-Skype minutes were video minutes
Alex Street

Cinch Makes It Super Simple To Share Audio To Twitter, Facebook, And The Web - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 04 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • inch, a new service from BlogTalkRadio
  • browse and listen to other people Cinches, o
  • white branding the entire platform (
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  • publishers and brands can create their own communities built around Cinc
Alex Street

GetGlue, Miso and Philo: Check-in apps for couch potatoes - Telegraph Blogs - 0 views

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  • Twitter is very good at creating those communities for shows that a lot of people are likely to be watching – a big football match, say, or some reality TV abomination – but if you’re watching something more obscure then there is only a slim chance that somebody else in your Twitter stream is doing the same
  • relevant hashtag
  • likely to serve those niches more effectively
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  • GetGlue, which is a much broader proposition altogether
Alex Street

Social television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 27 Jun 11 - Cached
  • TV Genius Social TV Twitter Analytics(measures the top TV shows on Twitter, and creates content discovery solutions around the data)
  • SecondScreen Networks
Alex Street

Move Over Twitter: Facebook Wants a Piece of Social TV, Too - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 27 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Facebook users tend to have highly detailed profiles
  • also connect their personal profile to their favourite brands and celebritie
  • Facebook Connect allows users to sign into millions of sites
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  • wealth of data provide
  • page is used as a hub
  • t MIPTV, Facebook outlined four key ways that the platform can be used to encourage social TV behaviour:
  • Building TV Communities
  • og onto the CBS website using Facebook Connect. Instantly, CBS has access to all that user’s favourite actors,
  • One picture had 10,000 likes- the average user has 130 friends on average
  • Facebook is Topgear.com’s second largest traffic driver
  • 2.     Social Check in
  • TV check in lets TV
  • check into each episode of a series
  • see that actually ten of their friends are also watching Top Gear at the same
  • ocial EPG
  • Million Pound Drop:
  • wildly successful Facebook game
  • 8-10% of the TV audience played the game
  • voting is monetised through a sponsorship.
Alex Street

Josh Halliday interviews Mark Rock, founder of Audioboo | Media | The Guardian - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 04 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • company's grand ethos: "democratising radio".
  • Twitter for audi
  • Stephen Fry is one of its most devoted users
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  • utstripped by the sounds of crises and uprisings
  • in March 2009, the site was almost brought down by 250,000 listens in one day during London's G20 protest
  • the spoken word can go social
  • Conversation has become very private
  • social networks really was an opportunity to innovate in the audio space.
  • judged the 14th most powerful person in UK media
  • Audioboo's iTunes-style micropayments model
  • Audioboo is to begin charging its heaviest users
  • charge a modest sum each year for extra recording time
  • currently limited to five minutes
  • Rock also has his mind on the company's second round of funding
  • wants to raise £2m
  • art of the investment strategy is to get some presence in America
  • traffic or usage data end in failure
  • gripe with the BBC is that they're more than happy to support the big-reach American companies, such as Twitter and Facebook, and yet not support small, focused, British startups
Alex Street

ITV's footie coverage - with added Twitter and AudioBoo | Media | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 04 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • hype-tastic iPhone audio tool AudioBoo will be integrated, so any relevant commentary from fans can be submitted to the ITV site
  • udioBoo tool is free, the 'magic tags' allow premium
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