Category Archives: Social things

[Data visualization] Facebook Connections Map

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How are friends connected on Facebook? Facebook intern, paul buttler has created an image that shows you the facebook friend connections worldwide based on cities, the number of friend connections in them.

When you have a social graph data of 500 million people, there are many ways you can look at them.
facebook connections map
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The creator paul says:

Defined the importance of each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends among them. Then I drew lines between pairs of importance, so that pairs of cities with more friends among them were drawn over others. The color scale goes from black to blue to white, each line with the color corresponding to their weight. Also transformed lines to fit in the picture, rather than lengthen them all over the map.

The image, besides being spectacular, it also gives us an idea of how friendships are spreading throughout the world, including oceans.

The Controversial History Of Facebook [Infograph]

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Here is the complete information graphics of the various controversies Facebook has experienced in recent years.

Despite its 500 million members star, the world’s biggest social network created by Mark Zuckerberg, has faced many controversies since its inception, particularly regarding respect for the privacy of its users. Here is the infograph below:


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via [All Facebook]

Features Of The New Twitter UI

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Alright, I finally got access to the NEW twitter and it rocks! The UI is completely revamped & the feel itself is awesome.

I wanted to share couple of cool things that you can do on the new twitter with my friends.

First off, we all noobs know that twitter is the realtime news machine. You can find anything and everything that’s happening around the world. Today was the judgment day of the historic Ayodhya case. And twitter india was trending ‘ayodhya verdict’ on the top list since the official website was down due to traffic overload.

Now, back to the point, here is couple of cool new features of the new twitter!

>> Shortcuts

Using these shortcuts you can navigate within twitter easily.

>> No more ‘more’ click to scroll

On the old twitter you UI, you could only view certain tweets at a time but now you can simply scroll to infinity and the news keep flowing.

>> Easier @replies


With the new interface you easily and simply reply. A small Ajax popup window appears, just type the reply and hit the tweet button to post the reply.

>> Quick profile\detail view


With the new UI the twitter home page is divided into 2 places. One is the twitter stream and the other is the navigation window. The stream is the same thing, but we’re more interested in the navigational view. Here, in the navigational view we can see the profile of the twitter user, follow\unfollow, add to a list or post replies and more without navigating from the page.

Do you any other feature on twitter? share them below :)

Twitters New Re-designed Interface

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Twitter has a new design, and as said on the blog, the new Twitter provides a faster experience, rich interface and easily accessible.

Besides the design, there are other points that have been improved in twitter:

  • New Design – Timeline with a cleaner and more details panel that gives more impact to each individual tweet.
  • Media – You can embed photos and videos directly to Twitter.
  • Related Content – Learn about the author or the theme answers, other user’s tweets, map, etc.
  • Mini profiles – click upon it name to see a mini profile without leaving the page.

The following video can be viewed and new design:

Free Version Of The Plaxo For Iphone Sync

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Got an email update from Plaxo notifying me about the new, stable FREE version of the Plaxo for Iphone application.

I’d already told you folks about the new the Plaxo for Iphone application available for beta testing. It seems like the Plaxo team has whipped up a stable version after rigorous testing already (less than a month).

The stable version 1.0 is now available in the Apple store.

Here is the download link:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plaxo/id377135604?mt=8

When the application was in beta, it was available for only premium users BUT now its Free for all Plaxo members!
The new features in the stable release include, sign-in with Google, or Facebook account (no more password problems) & Create a Plaxo account directly from your iPhone, iPod Touch or IPad (if you are not currently a Plaxo user).

Social Media World

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If only the world was a Social Network (Oh yeah! Your facebook, twitter or Myspace). Here is another infographic of world map showing the size of social networks based on their number of users in 2010. These numbers come from information collected by USA Today, Alexa, Compete, and other sources.

The map also includes legends such as “The land of social networks disappeared,” “Sea of personal information” or “The U.S. territories of Wikimedia”, etc.

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Via Mashable

Facebook Compared to a Country

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Ever wondered what if Facebook was a country? What if Facebook had an economy? Here is a site called Visual Economics, has created a Infograph on ‘what if Facebook was a country‘.

Facebook economy

There are over 550,000 applications that are used on Facebook. 70% of users use the Facebook site’s applications. There are millions of application developers on Facebook. Zynga, a leading developer generated $ 250 million in 2009 to a estimated profit between 80 to 150 million dollars.

The most popular Facebook applications are:

  • Zynga
  • Rock You!
  • Arts Electric
  • CrowdStar
  • Playdom
  • Causes
  • Slide
  • 6 Waves
  • Topzy
  • iLike
  • MindJolt
  • RIM

Facebook Pages

There are more than 1500000 pages of Facebook active. The average value of a fan is estimated at $ 136.38. Extrapolating this figure, many pages of celebrities would be worth huge sums:

  • Michael Jackson, with 13.3 million fans, would have a page with a $ 1.8 billion.
  • Family Guy with 9.5 million fans, have a page with a value of 1.3 billion.
  • Lady Gaga and Barack Obama have 9.1 million fans for the pages of a $ 1.2 billion each.
  • Vin Diesel with 9,000,000 fans, have a page with a value of 1.1 billion dollars.
  • Starbucks with 8.2 million fans have a page with a value of 1.1 billion dollars.
  • South Park with 6.2 million fans have a page with a value of 845 million dollars.

The most popular pages on Facebook include:

  • Obama
  • Lady Gaga
  • Jackson
  • Family Guy
  • Vin Diesel
  • Megan Fox
  • House
  • Twilight Saga
  • Starbucks

Users

There are over 500 million users of Facebook. 200 million users will be on site daily, averaging 55 minutes per day. If these users were working for $ 5 an hour instead of going on Facebook, they collectively would gain $ 916000000 per day.

Advertise

In the first quarter of 2010, 176 billion ads were posted on Facebook, 16% of display advertising market. Facebook says that its advertisers have quadrupled since 2009.

If Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populous in the world after China and India.

Today, the value of Facebook is estimated between 7.9 – 11 billion dollars.

[Via Visualeconomics ]

Facebook Pages and Google Page Rank

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As Google positions the tweets from Twitter, you must also make sure, the Facebook pages position. We must also bear in mind that Facebook is world’s biggest social media for promotion of brands.

What Google has in mind when positioning Facebook Fan Pages? What factors are most important?.

For now, there is not much knowledge about it, but here are couple of things:

  • Number of fans – THe more followers, Page rank is more relevant. You need to check if all fans are “worth” the same as or more important the larger ones.
  • The type of content – Freshness, relevance of content, images, videos, etc..
  • Big brands – The reputation of a brand
  • URLs – the same as traditional SEO URL
  • Number of “shares” – Popularity of content – How many people have shared posts from the fan page?
  • Age of the Fan page -  Comparison between Old and Newly created facebook page … etc.

As we can see, the post is the first approach on how google ranks Facebook links. Do you have a Facebook fan page for your blog or website? Do you think its worth? share you thoughts below!