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The World’s Most Valuable Brands – Who’s Most Engaged in Social Media?

Jordan Lyall — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:59:25 +0000

In the world of Social Media there are companies get it right and others that miss the boat. This report from ENGAGEMENTdb ranks the world’s top 100 brands. Who are the Social Media leaders and who are simply jumping on the bandwagon?

Business engagement of Social Media-Report –

The Evolution of the Twitter Homepage

Jordan Lyall — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:07:32 +0000

To commemorate the unveiling of its most recent homepage design, let’s take a look back through the history of Twitter:

Initial Sketch - 2000

Twitter's First Homepage - 2006

2007

2008

Current Home Page - 2009

But how could we forget:

TV Beats Web for Michael Jackson Mourners?

Jordan Lyall — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:26:38 +0000

Many first heard of his passing online, then rushed to their favorite 24-hour news station. Does that equal a “win” for television in the media battle?

From ClickZ.com:

In this post-Michael Jackson era, the media onslaught borne from Jackson’s demise is one that deserves the intense picking over it has received. First is the notion that the news itself was broken by a blog (tmz.com), which is good for digital media’s future. Then there are the curious and still not necessarily authenticated stories as to how Jackson’s death very nearly broke the Internet, which may be not so good for digital media’s future.

Perhaps more interesting to those in the online world, Jackson’s death suggests how radically the consumption paradigm has shifted. A not-so-random survey of friends and colleagues showed that most people discovered the news through Facebook or Twitter, despite the fact that the break-it-down-so-you-can-mourn-effectively coverage emanated from television at the same time. So though you heard about it online, you turned to the tube for your “real” news. Score one for TV.