These are my links for October 20th through October 21st:

• For Twitter, Free Speech Matters — Not Real Names [Headlines] @PSFK –
• Heinz Lets Friends Send "Get Well" Cans of Soup via Facebook – The next time one of your friends complains about an illness on Facebook, go a step further and send them a can of soup instead of a simple “Get well!” message on his or her Wall (or Timeline).
• Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook • The Register – Debt collectors should not be allowed to chase people who owe them money on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, the UK's Office of Fair Trading has said.
• Hackathons: Meet the world’s fastest inventors – May 2011. In a warehouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, more than 400 hackers, journalists and venture capitalists gather to watch the presentations of 110 teams of coders at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon. Each has sixty seconds to pitch their idea.
• BBC News – Using social media in the Middle East – The role of social media has grown dramatically in the Middle East – thanks to the Arab Spring.
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• Tweet life: Portraits of Twitter users – Ever wondered where tweeters are tweeting from? So did photographer Michael Hughes. He explains how he tracked some of them down for his latest project
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• Hackathons: Meet the world’s fastest inventors – May 2011. In a warehouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, more than 400 hackers, journalists and venture capitalists gather to watch the presentations of 110 teams of coders at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon. Each has sixty seconds to pitch their idea.
• Tweet life: Portraits of Twitter users – Ever wondered where tweeters are tweeting from? So did photographer Michael Hughes. He explains how he tracked some of them down for his latest project
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• BBC News – Using social media in the Middle East – The role of social media has grown dramatically in the Middle East – thanks to the Arab Spring.
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• Facebook Pages: Impressions are down, but engagement is up – You can all stop whining now, Facebook Page owners. Your page and post impressions may have gone down, but your comments and likes are way up — doesn’t that make you feel good?
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• The Harsh Realities Of The Real-Time Web For Marketers | Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Blog – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image – In four words: we are not prepared.
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• The Day @thepaulsutton Hung Out with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu –
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• The Harsh Realities Of The Real-Time Web For Marketers | Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Blog – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image – In four words: we are not prepared.
• For all you Game of Thrones fans out there: A Lannister Always Spays His Pets [Pic] –
• Facebook Pages: Impressions are down, but engagement is up – You can all stop whining now, Facebook Page owners. Your page and post impressions may have gone down, but your comments and likes are way up — doesn’t that make you feel good?
• More proof that socially engaged consumers spend more – One of my favourite stats is the one from Radio Shack in the US about customers checking in via Foursquare spending significantly more money than those that don’t.
• The Day @thepaulsutton Hung Out with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu –
• New York Times article on the use of QR codes in retail and on TV –
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• The Harsh Realities Of The Real-Time Web For Marketers | Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Blog – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image – In four words: we are not prepared.
• For all you Game of Thrones fans out there: A Lannister Always Spays His Pets [Pic] –
• Facebook Pages: Impressions are down, but engagement is up – You can all stop whining now, Facebook Page owners. Your page and post impressions may have gone down, but your comments and likes are way up — doesn’t that make you feel good?
• More proof that socially engaged consumers spend more – One of my favourite stats is the one from Radio Shack in the US about customers checking in via Foursquare spending significantly more money than those that don’t.
• The Day @thepaulsutton Hung Out with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu –
• New York Times article on the use of QR codes in retail and on TV –
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• Facebook Pages: Impressions are down, but engagement is up – You can all stop whining now, Facebook Page owners. Your page and post impressions may have gone down, but your comments and likes are way up — doesn’t that make you feel good?
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• More proof that socially engaged consumers spend more – One of my favourite stats is the one from Radio Shack in the US about customers checking in via Foursquare spending significantly more money than those that don’t.
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• The Harsh Realities Of The Real-Time Web For Marketers | Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Blog – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image – In four words: we are not prepared.
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• The Day @thepaulsutton Hung Out with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu –
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• For all you Game of Thrones fans out there: A Lannister Always Spays His Pets [Pic] –
• New York Times article on the use of QR codes in retail and on TV –
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• The Harsh Realities Of The Real-Time Web For Marketers | Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Blog – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image – In four words: we are not prepared.
• For all you Game of Thrones fans out there: A Lannister Always Spays His Pets [Pic] –
• Facebook Pages: Impressions are down, but engagement is up – You can all stop whining now, Facebook Page owners. Your page and post impressions may have gone down, but your comments and likes are way up — doesn’t that make you feel good?
• More proof that socially engaged consumers spend more – One of my favourite stats is the one from Radio Shack in the US about customers checking in via Foursquare spending significantly more money than those that don’t.
• The Day @thepaulsutton Hung Out with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu –
• New York Times article on the use of QR codes in retail and on TV –
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• More proof that socially engaged consumers spend more – One of my favourite stats is the one from Radio Shack in the US about customers checking in via Foursquare spending significantly more money than those that don’t.
• The Harsh Realities Of The Real-Time Web For Marketers | Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Blog – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image – In four words: we are not prepared.
• The Day @thepaulsutton Hung Out with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu –
• Facebook Pages: Impressions are down, but engagement is up – You can all stop whining now, Facebook Page owners. Your page and post impressions may have gone down, but your comments and likes are way up — doesn’t that make you feel good?
• For all you Game of Thrones fans out there: A Lannister Always Spays His Pets [Pic] –
• New York Times article on the use of QR codes in retail and on TV –
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• The Day @thepaulsutton Hung Out with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu –
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• The Harsh Realities Of The Real-Time Web For Marketers | Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Blog – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image – In four words: we are not prepared.
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• Facebook Pages: Impressions are down, but engagement is up – You can all stop whining now, Facebook Page owners. Your page and post impressions may have gone down, but your comments and likes are way up — doesn’t that make you feel good?
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• More proof that socially engaged consumers spend more – One of my favourite stats is the one from Radio Shack in the US about customers checking in via Foursquare spending significantly more money than those that don’t.
• For all you Game of Thrones fans out there: A Lannister Always Spays His Pets [Pic] –
• New York Times article on the use of QR codes in retail and on TV –
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• Facebook Pages: Impressions are down, but engagement is up – You can all stop whining now, Facebook Page owners. Your page and post impressions may have gone down, but your comments and likes are way up — doesn’t that make you feel good?
• More proof that socially engaged consumers spend more – One of my favourite stats is the one from Radio Shack in the US about customers checking in via Foursquare spending significantly more money than those that don’t.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• The Harsh Realities Of The Real-Time Web For Marketers | Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Blog – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image – In four words: we are not prepared.
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• The Day @thepaulsutton Hung Out with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu –
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• For all you Game of Thrones fans out there: A Lannister Always Spays His Pets [Pic] –
• New York Times article on the use of QR codes in retail and on TV –