How Facebook Helped a Man Piece Together His Life
August 8, 2012 | Courtney van der WeydenFacebook’s Facebook Stories is where I stumbled across the story of Mayank Sharma. The website is dedicated to sharing the stories of people who are using the social media in extraordinary ways.
Mayank Sharma of New Delhi contracted…
Ad Campaign Relates Stalin to Social Media
July 6, 2012 | Tarant Hill
A project created by Russian communications student, Ilya Tekhlikidi has been used as a campaign for the Victims of Illegal Political Repressions Organization. The campaign has been aimed at younger generations, and uses contemporary…
Infographic: Is Social Media Making us Socially-Awkward?
July 2, 2012 | Courtney van der WeydenOnline education portal schools.com have created an inforgraphic that illustrates how our need to be constantly connected and updated online is dramatically altering our real-life relationships.
Facebook users are the biggest offenders. Research…
Instagram vs. The New York Times: What’s a Company Worth, Anyways?
May 30, 2012 | Courtney van der WeydenFacebook recently purchased Instagram for $1 billion. The New York Times, on that same day, had a market capitalizatoin of just over $946 million. How is it possibly that a 2 year old startup with 12 employees could be valued higher than one of…
Facebook adds Instagram to the Family
April 10, 2012 | Courtney van der Weyden 1…
Creating quite a stir in the blog/digital news sphere this week is Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of the much-loved and adored app, Instagram. There has been a mixture of positive and negative reactions with x amountRead More
Using Social Media to Capture an Endangered Language
March 5, 2012 | Courtney van der WeydenProfessor Margaret Noori of Michigan University has created an online community that is capturing, what would otherwise be, a dying language. It’s an innovative way of preserving a language so that ancient sounds are not lost and can…
Incredible Things That happen Every 60 Seconds on the Internet
January 9, 2012 | White SpacesThe first infographic of many to feature in 2012 is a look into what takes place in 60 seconds on the world wide web, thanks to The Big Picture. In a single minute there are 98, 000 new Tweets and Google makes $75 000 in revenue.
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A Digital Shoebox for Your Old Photos
October 28, 2011 | Courtney van der Weyden 1Company 1000 memories has launched a new iPhone app that will allow you to bring your past into your present. Shoebox allows you to scan old photographs, tag and share them with friends and family online. It means you can no longer hide from those…
How Recruiters Use Social Networks
October 27, 2011 | Courtney van der WeydenSome statistics are quite scary. And if you are currently seeking a new job or employment this one should be of a concern to you. A survey conducted by social media monitoring service Reppler of 300 hiring professionals found that 90 % are looking…
The Anatomy of a Facebook Fan or How to use Facebook to Market your Brand
August 31, 2011 | White Spaces
This useful infographic from Moontoast–a company that makes e-commerce platforms for Facebook pages–lays out some of the more subtle aspects of the entire “like” dynamic. It lays bare the different…
The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions.
July 28, 2011 | White Spaces 1Click for larger view
Curated by the legendary Paola Antonelli, explores how innovations in communication design are transforming our lives. It features interactive objects, data visualizations, and brain-blending guerilla tech projects.…
An Infograph Looking into The Reality of Online Check-ins.
May 16, 2011 | White SpacesHere is a summary of research findings:
- Privacy is still a huge issue for the adoption of any applications that ask the consumer to disclose their location.
- Facebook and Groupon are well placed to exploit the Social-Loco opportunity through
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The Psychology of Leaving
February 28, 2011 | Marie Lena Tupot 1Last week, our favorite femme fatale announced she was leaving Facebook until further notice. 48 hours, nay — 36 hours, later she was back posting status updates like nothing ever happened. (Harrumph.) At the same time, another friend…Read More
Join our Facebook Page and be Like George Clooney
February 20, 2011 | White Spaces 1
We are only new to Facebook, however we have quickly built up a small community of fans/ subscribers.
Well, we want you to join us on Facebook too. The uncluttered white spaces facebook page has constant updates, conversations, questions,…
The Complete History of Social Networking
February 3, 2011 | White Spaces 4Start here >>
From 1971 – 2010… Onlineschools.org take us on a journey from the first email sent to aol chat to where we are today, with over 3500 tweets per second echoing around the planet. This is one very cool infograph…
An Infograph on our Obsession with Facebook
January 17, 2011 | White SpacesSo the world is changing and according to OnlineSchools.org, 48% of young people source news from Facebook, 1 in every 13 peeps on earthuses Facebook and 48% of people between the ages of 18 and 34 check Facebook as we wake up.
How does this compare to…
Do You Know Who is Watching You? A Look at Your Lack of Privacy on the Internet.
December 8, 2010 | White Spaces 1Curious to know “who is watching you online”? This infographic made by Wordstream.com will give you a goiod indication. Do we need to reclaim our privacy?
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Infograph | Facebook Reach the 500 Million User Milestone
July 23, 2010 | White SpacesFacebook reached its 500 million member milestone yesterday and celebrated the event with the launch of Facebook Stories. The monumental moment also played a role in the ABC World News report featuring acandid interview between Diane…
uncluttered white spaces is on Facebook with a free Sigg to giveaway
June 24, 2010 | White SpacesTo add to our growing subscription base, we have conceeded and agreed to create a Facebook fan page for uncluttered white spaces.
Whilst we limit the content on white spaces to 3 articles per day on design, strategy, marketing, people and business,…
The Facebook Movie | Based on The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook
June 23, 2010 | White SpacesThe new Facebook Movie is to be directed by Fight Club director David Fincher and is based upon the book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook which profiles the rise of Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook empire. The movie…
Facebook COO Discusses the Death of Email and the Future of Social.
June 17, 2010 | White SpacesHand up if you used email today. Yep, me too. What about the teens of today. According to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg speaking at Nielsen’s Consumer 360 conference yesterday, only 11% of teens email daily–clearly, a huge generational…
Infograph | Facebook: Facts you probably didn’t know
May 31, 2010 | White SpacesChances are good you have a Facebook profile. Chances are even better that, if you do have an account, you check it at least once a day. You might be a professional Farmviller or the President of 100 Facebook groups, but do you really know Facebook…
Infograph | Facebooks Race to Nine Billion
April 22, 2010 | White Spaces 1In December 09, Gigom produced this infographic detailing the rise and rise of Facebooks value on paper. The question remains, how much money is this social media empire really worth.
Recently Facebook unveiled a plan to double revenues, …
White Space TV: Talks with David Gillespie on Twitter and the future of the world as we know it.
February 16, 2010 | White Spaces 3uncluttered white spaces caught up with David Gillespie in January 2010 and brought the video camera along for the ride. In an hour long discussion (this interview only goes for 5 minutes for those of you who just sighed), we covered topics…
How Foursquare can help business owners.
January 29, 2010 | White SpacesHow Foursquare Helps Consumers and Business Owners
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Have you tried Foursquare yet? We jumped onto the platform a little over 3 months ago and it took us some time to really engage with the platform. There…Read More
Falling in Autumn @ Park Street Social Club
November 5, 2009 | White Spaces 1When Tim Ross of Park St Social Club calls and asks you to play at his bar. Its kind of a no-brainer. So Falling in Autumn are up for an acoustic showcase in their SECOND-LAST show for ’09.
FiA put out a call on Facebook to the Beaches crew to …
Social Media
August 18, 2009 | White Spaces
Recently a couple of studies all about Twitter usage were released. This is great news to all of us working in the social media field who previously had mostly case studies and empirical experience to guide organizations in best practices for…


