This weekly round-up comes with a built-in 24 hours of delay, as the author was extremely busy dur­ing the last week­end launch­ing the Aus­trian Inter­net Coun­cil [site in Ger­man]. This was an amaz­ing proof of the power of social media: within the short time span of 5 days we our project was the cover story on ORF Future­Zone, Austria’s biggest Tech News site. Crowd­sourc­ing is great, but it can be quite time-consuming, espe­cially when there’s a lot of inter­est and involve­ment. So, with­out any fur­ther ado, let’s jump right into this week’s hot social media topics!

Ignore every­body!

breas! Hugh Macleod of Gap­ingvoid pub­lished his first book titled Ignore Every­body: And 39 Other Keys to Cre­ativ­ity. Just ordered my copy — I’m look­ing for­ward to some inspir­ing quotes and cartoons:

The first rule of busi­ness, is never sell some­thing you love. Oth­er­wise you may as well be sell­ing your children.

The Real Pip-Boy Deal

The Pip Boy saved me var­i­ous time — while I was strolling through the post-nuclear waste­lands of Fall­out 3. But the nifty lit­tle arm-computer might soon enter real life: Engad­get shows pic­tures of an impres­sive flex­i­ble OLED-Display:

The 4-inch organic elec­tro­lu­mi­nes­cent dis­play sports up to 1.67 mil­lion col­ors, QVGA (320 x 240) 100ppi res­o­lu­tion, and can be bent to a cur­va­ture radius of about 2 inches. Hope­fully, this doesn’t become a must-have fash­ion acces­sory any time soon: while it’s per­fectly appro­pri­ate attire for post-apocalyptic waste­lands, we don’t know how well it’ll fly at the sorts of high soci­ety social events we nor­mally frequent.

Seesmic Desk­top: no Air required

TechCrunch inter­viewed Seis­mic founder Loic LeMeur — and the most charm­ing Leena Rao man­aged to make the man talk:

Accord­ing to Le Meur, Seesmic will soon be offer­ing a browser based client. This offer­ing is actu­ally appeal­ing, con­sid­er­ing that Adobe’s AIR plat­form has some strange UI bugs and quirks and tends to use a good amount of resources on com­put­ers. And Seesmic will also launch an iPhone app, which is cur­rently under wraps along with the web-based product.

Jeremy’s own Affiliate-Network

Jeremy Shoe­maker has been writ­ing about affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing for quite some time; but recently he launched his own affiliate-network and pub­lished a post about his expe­ri­ences. I’m really curi­ous about his plans:

Sure I hear you… your think­ing “Why the hell would you pay peo­ple to sign up for a free course?” It’s a great ques­tion and I think when the dust set­tles around the shoemoneyx.com pro­gram I will write all about it, why I did what, and what exact effect it had. I do have a method to my mad­ness but it’s not as many have guessed. We will see if it works but that is for another post

Twit­ter is becom­ing infrastructure

Reg­u­lar Geek posted an inter­view view on twit­ter — his main point: Twit­ter is shift­ing from an online ser­vice to a basic infra­struc­ture upon which early adopters are con­struct­ing an eco-system:

So, why is mar­ket­ing and econ­omy so impor­tant to Twit­ter becom­ing infra­struc­ture? With­out an econ­omy build­ing on top of Twit­ter data and func­tion­al­ity, Twit­ter would just be a toy. With peo­ple research­ing the data that is gen­er­ated from Twit­ter, it becomes much more impor­tant. In order to mon­e­tize the sys­tem, they can sell the data, but mon­e­ti­za­tion becomes much eas­ier when you become ubiquitous.

Can’t argue with that — with all the var­i­ous mash-ups and the grow­ing inter­est in real-time search, it seems that Twit­ter is here to stay. At least for now.

Bing beats Yahoo

Microsoft’s new search engine hat a great start: TechCrunch reports that Bing over­took Yahoo — now the ques­tion is: will this trend last or will the wearer of the ancient head­band #2 leap for a comeback?

The company’s analy­sis for Thurs­day finds that in the U.S. Bing over­took Yahoo to take sec­ond place on 16.28%, with Yahoo Search cur­rently at 10.22%. For the sake of com­par­i­son: Google’s U.S. mar­ket share is pegged at 71.47%, and its world­wide share at a whop­ping 87.62% (vs. 5.62% for Bing and 5.13% for Yahoo).

Con­tent ain’t king

“The idea that ‘con­tent is king’ in blog­ging is total bull­shit” says Viral Gar­den:

Every day I read hun­dreds of blog posts. And every day, I see dozens of truly GREAT posts that get no com­ments. Every day I see dozens of pretty good posts that get dozens of com­ments and have vibrant con­ver­sa­tions.
The dif­fer­ence? Most of the blog­gers that write those pretty good posts are also pretty good about leav­ing their blog and inter­act­ing with peo­ple on OTHER sites. They com­ment on their reader’s blogs. They tweet their links on Twit­ter. They are ACTIVELY social with social media.

Inter­est­ing the­sis… I’d say that both fac­tors come into play. Social media spam­ming will just piss peo­ple off unless you got some sto­ries that are actu­ally worth watch­ing your moves.

Pic of the week

I admit: I just couldn’t decide between these two beau­ti­ful shots. A direct path was taken by eye­splash Mikul, it’s a free-handed shot. The sec­onded pic­ture por­trays a female lying wolf in the zoo of Zürich and was taken by Tam­bako the Jaguar:

Video of the week

Boats are only peo­ple — pretty unre­li­able ones, to be exact. These love boat pas­sen­ger are in for a wet treat — feel the pain of these great sailors:

This is the end — of this week’s round-up. Thanks for stop­ping by and offer­ing me some of your Whuffies. Let’s do it like this: I’ll keep post­ing and you’ll keep com­ing back and drop a dime from time to time

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