This weekly round-up comes with a free day of delay, as I was pretty busi­ness last night tak­ing pic­tures of the sun­set from Brauns­berg. Rid­ing my bike home I had to be very care­ful since a nightly meet­ing of a rab­bit and a motor­cy­cle is usu­ally a very unpleas­ant expe­ri­ence for both sides. I haven’t digi devel­opped all pics yet, but this one turned out quite nicely:

So back to blog­ging busi­ness — what a week! We now finally know that there actu­ally *are* dif­fer­ences when it comes to the two sexes using social media.

Men are from Face­book, women are from Twitter?

Despite all post-modern phi­los­o­phy, a new study seems to prove that there actu­ally gender-driven dif­fer­ences between men and women. Hunter-gatherer, anyone?

“Men gen­er­ally have the atti­tude, I’m going to go there, I’ve got to get it and get out,” says Phillips. “Females like to go online and social­ize and shop around — much like going into a store.”

Track these ole blue eyes

Problog­ger looks his read­ers closely into their eyes. Lat­est find­ings in eye-tracking research:

For head­lines — espe­cially longer ones — it would appear that the first cou­ple of words need to be real attention-grabbers.
Nav­i­ga­tion placed at the top of a home­page per­formed best.
Shorter para­graphs per­formed bet­ter in Eye­track III research than longer ones.

Tweet, but tweet safely

Twit­ter is all about the birds (even though a cou­ple of bees and flow­ers have been reported lately), but don’t for­get the pre­cious advice our swim­ming friends have got in store for us: if some­thing smells phishy, it prob­a­bly is. That’s we all kinds of online-scams deter­mined to acquire your login called phish­ing. And yes, indeed, it all actu­ally is very com­pli­cated and stuff, but this arti­cle might help you to sep­a­rate the spam­mers from the scammers:

With Twitter’s mon­u­men­tal growth, there has been an increase in the amount of scam­mers look­ing to exploit indi­vid­u­als for profit either by the tech­nol­ogy itself or by “social engi­neer­ing”. Many of the same secu­rity dis­ci­plines required when using email or the web in gen­eral now apply to Twitter.

Death of a Dolla

Up-and-coming rap­per Dolla was mur­dered last week — shorty before his death he had started twit­ter­ing and now fans are using his MySpace page as a vir­tual memo­r­ial site:

The issue raises again an inter­est­ing ques­tion — what hap­pens to social net­work­ing accounts after their orig­i­nal owner has passed away? There isn’t really a legal stip­u­la­tion about who takes pos­ses­sion of a user’s social net­work­ing accounts, and they often become sort-of “memo­ri­als” to their late owners.

Dig­i­tal Influ­ence Mapping

As mar­ket­ing gets more and more com­plex, ques­tions will be asked about the true nature of your friends, John Bell argues. And his con­clu­sio def­i­nitely is worth tak­ing into consideration:

We will need to trun our atten­tion to com­plex inte­grated pro­grams that perserve the authen­tic­ity of social media-delivered opin­ion by com­bin­ing it with clearly dis­tin­guish­able and highly-relevant adver­tis­ing.
Social media mar­ket­ing will con­tinue to get more complex.It’s future is in inte­grated pro­grams that mix the enthu­si­asm of happy, even delighted, cus­tomers and the reach and rel­e­vance of tar­geted marketing.

In defense of Friendfeed

Each week new argu­ments about the great­ness of Friend­Feed turn up. Elias even thinks that big G should add the ser­vice to its shop­ping cart:

Friend­feed does real time bet­ter than any­one else. Face­book rules when it comes to the activ­ity stream of a per­son – mean­ing, track­ing an individual’s life and to some extent media shar­ing. Twit­ter rules for sen­ti­ment, as it’s like one mas­sive chat room, and to some extent link shar­ing. But Friend­feed, quite frankly, craps all over Face­book and Twit­ter in real time search.

Indeed, FF knows a good deal about aggre­ga­tion… the fact that humans are rare vis­i­tors while bots love Friend­feed is a dif­fer­ent story though.

Videos of the week

This week two bril­liant clips caught my atten­tion: Mul­ti­touch Barcelona designed and imple­mented the first “Human Inter­face” ever, called Hi — see it in action:

And then there’s Paul Thompson’s “Super Smooth Level Flight over Fry­ing Pan Farm Park” which proves, that model air­planes and video cam­eras are a win­ning combination:

And that’s pretty much it for this week — thanks for your whuffies, stop by again soon, I’ll keep you posted!

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