Social Media
Elephant? What Elephant?
September 26, 2012 | Josie Gibson
British artist Banksy knows how to generate headlines. His street art and dark imagery have become recognised and imitated the world over, although his strong political and social commentary might slip right by the uninformed.
No matter.…
How Facebook Helped a Man Piece Together His Life
August 8, 2012 | Courtney van der Weyden
Facebook’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…
SeeMail: Revealing the Story Behind the Photo
May 31, 2012 | Courtney van der WeydenSeeMail is a free iOS app that allows users to add their voice to photographs that are shared on the platform. Creators Ward Chandler and Kent Speakman were inspired by old photographs that contained stories of the captured moment hand-written…
Be Careful What You Wish For; You Might Accidentally Launch a Startup
May 21, 2012 | David Gillespie 1
A funny thing happened in April. A funny thing that was amazing at the time, that quickly lost all of its meaning. Or rather, not that it lost its meaning, but I over-valued it at the time and eventually saw it for what it was.
Late March…
Using Social Media to Capture an Endangered Language
March 5, 2012 | Courtney van der Weyden
Professor 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…
How Twitter is Used to Restore Peace and Order
February 21, 2012 | Courtney van der Weyden
Twitter is not only used as a means of staying in touch with current events and news, socially or as a platform to advertise but in some cases is used to create peace and order. Chief Francis Kariuki, an African administrative is using the micro…
Infographic | Pulse Leap from 1 Million users to 11 Million in 12 months.
January 29, 2012 | White Spaces
As you may recall UWS was once featured on Pulse’s featured article list, along with the likes of The Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine. Not even a year later Pulse received some exciting news themselves. They leaped from one…
Does Your Employer own Your Twitter Fans?
January 9, 2012 | Courtney van der Weyden 2
Is this case just absolutely unnecessary or does PhoneDog have a valid argument?
A former employee, Noah Kravitz of the company is being sued for $327 000 because when he switched jobs, he took all his 17 000 Twitter followers with him that he …
A Digital Shoebox for Your Old Photos
October 28, 2011 | Courtney van der Weyden 1
Company 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…
Is Twitter the New News?
October 20, 2011 | Tarant Hill
With the rise of the Internet and social media outlets like twitter and Reddit, citizen journalism has taken off in leaps and bounds, or should I say tweets and bounds.
One of the things I found most interesting about the topic was the emerging…
Is the 99% and the 1% Really Working Towards the Same Outcome
October 19, 2011 | Courtney van der Weyden
Of course we all know whats going down in America and subsequently spread to the rest of the world with Occupy Wall Street. It’s a movement that proposed a peaceful occupation of Wall Street to protest corporate influence of democracy,…
Blogging Your Way to the Top & Retailers Response to Current Trends
October 11, 2011 | Courtney van der Weyden
Bergdorf Goodman, Barneys, the big guns in fashion retail are pursuing new avenues to keep the customers coming and to align with current trends.
Barneys has bowed down to the blogger pressure. As apart of their ongoing effort to be one of the…
Rhian Sugden for The Male Cancer Awareness Campaign (MCAC) Hands out a Twist
September 19, 2011 | White Spaces
Glamour model, Rhian Sugden, is fronting a bold new marketing campaign for the charity Male Cancer Awareness Campaign (MCAC) which sees her touch herself on camera with a dramatic twist. The educational viral film aims to eliminate the embarrassment…
Vizualize Me Turns your LinkedIn Profile into an Infographic
September 5, 2011 | White Spaces 1
Toronto based start-up vizualize.me is developing an online application that will automatically translate any LinkedIn profile into an infographic, addressing the issue of reading long complex resumes by showing the same information…
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…
Getting Creative on Complex Problems
August 25, 2011 | The Bull 4
For every problem there is a solution. Sometimes the solutions are easy; sometimes not. However you decide to solve a problem make sure that you only have to solve it once. There is nothing worse than a problem that repeats itself every week. …
An Infograph on How People are Using Twitter?
August 22, 2011 | White Spaces
Here is a a look at Lab42‘s findings that asked 500 Twitter users how they use the service, how they determine who to follow and so on… Meanwhile, to help facilitate my addiction to twitter, you can follow me here @benrennie…
Rupert Murdoch & How Twitter Tracked his Parliamentary Interrogation
July 22, 2011 | White Spaces
The Guardian has recently released an alternative way of revealing the social impact of important news stories. More specifically, they have tracked all the tweets regarding the News of World scandal, and visualized the relative frequency…
An Infograph Looking into The Reality of Online Check-ins.
May 16, 2011 | White Spaces
Here 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 1
Last 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 4
Start 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…
The Rise of Systems Under the Guise of Games
January 6, 2011 | David Gillespie
By David Gillespie | Several years ago, I made video games. Actually let me clarify that – I managed people who made video games. I’m not a developer sadly, I learned skills which would only be useful in industries nobody really …
The Rise of GEO Targeting and Location Based Services
January 6, 2011 | White Spaces
The rapid evolution of mobile phones, both on a hardware and a software level, combined with a surge in application storefront releases, deployments of higher-capacity network infrastructure and recent developments in positioning technologies…
Infograph | The Conversation Prism 3.0 for 2010
October 20, 2010 | White Spaces 1Which if these categories and tools are you trying to use to drive your business? Which ones are best to reach your target customers. This is a good guide, but make your own company-specific conversation prism and see where it takes you.…
If Facebook Was a Country, it Would be the 4th Largest on the Planet
October 5, 2010 | White Spaces 1
The demographics of the most popular social networking sites continue to rapidly change. Today, more than ever, older Internet users are flocking to social sites to join in the conversation. In fact, the most significant growth among these…
An Infograph on Twitter Stats
September 23, 2010 | White Spaces
Information is Beautiful takes a detailed look at the Twitter Community. This graph provides great insight however if anyone has anything similar or more up to date. We would love to hear from you.
Diesel Create Facepark | The Analog Version Of Facebook
August 17, 2010 | White Spaces 1
Diesel’s “Be Stupid” campaign platform continues to drive innovation and awesomeness in there approach to social engagement.
Diesel has created a social event called Facepark, a live event where thousands turned up to create an analog…
From the Archives | Impatient CEOs are all of a Twitter. It doesn’t work like that
July 1, 2010 | White Spaces
From the uncluttered white spaces Archives | Original Post: July 2009.
Louis Gerstner’s riveting memoir, Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?, tells how he turned IBM from a mainframe manufacturer heading for the knacker’s…
Taking the Online Voice offline with “Real World” meet-ups.
June 28, 2010 | White Spaces
- Social Media Melbourne Meetups
Springwise has curated a list of 5 social networks that take the online idea of networking to an offline meet up in the “real world”. There is a current trend towards meet ups in Australia with some…
The Facebook Movie | Based on The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook
June 23, 2010 | White Spaces
The 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 Spaces
Hand 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…
Scenario DNA Presents | Community Participation 3.0
May 31, 2010 | White Spaces
Scenario DNA have pulled together another insightful presentation on community participation. View more presentations from Tim Stock.
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Infograph | Consumer Brands and Social Currency
May 5, 2010 | White Spaces 1Popularity. You can’t just request it. As companies amass ever-larger collections of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, and YouTube audiences, they should ask themselves one question: What are we doing with them? “There is…
GOOD Covers 99% | The Top 10 Quotes
April 19, 2010 | White SpacesThe 99% Conference is a gathering put on by the crew at Behance and Cool Hunting aimed at getting creative people to stop coming up with ideas, and start executing them. The idea to turn thought into action. Here are some choice quotes…
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