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Darren Rowse shared this poster and a few others on G+ yesterday. Why don’t you check ‘em out for yourself?

Go here.

Not a very new online property, but still a site that I hadn’t noticed before; Empire Avenue. On AE all social media activity is indexed and valued. You can buy shares of individuals and companies active on social media. Any social media activity counts towards a dividend that is paid on a daily basis at 14:00. So if I for example buy a share, I get a share of the value that person generates on a daily basis.

Stock prices are determined partly on this activity and partly on general demand for a stock.

So how does this gamify social media? It puts great value on activity and interaction and connects everything. My activity consists of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and my blog, it’s supposed to track 5 sources but I’m not interested in Flickr a lot

Anyhow, check out my profile and perhaps even join me! Would be great to be able to buy stock in my readers!

Finally, I finished another book! Because of my growing interest in the field of social media and its mechanics I bought Tara Hunt’s debut. Basically because Seth told me so, and enjoyed it, for a while. The book details a lot of best practices in the field of social media, a lot of them Hunt’s own accomplishments, and it provided me with some great insight, for a while. Because while the book is interesting and readable, the feeling that she tried to convince me of something kept creeping up on me. She lost whuffie, so to say.

In list form:

• All the basics are covered; both media and messages thoroughly explained
• Practical applications, a lot of them, every seperate subject is broken down in practical to-do’s
• Examples of great practices
• Personal experience
• Connect the dots between the different parts of the book

Sounds great right? It is, but my biggest problem with the book is that I fail to see what went wrong. You learn by making mistakes, you learn by trying, and in the book, Tara Hunt only presents her successes. There’s just two examples of worst-practices in the book if I remember correctly, how am I to learn from that? For all I know by this book, everybody is already 100% proficient in social media and I couldn’t even get in on it. End result; I focus too much on this bad feeling I got, the book is well-written, entertaining and very informative. Full marks minus 2,5 for bad feeling at the end comes down to a 7,5/10, not bad! I do recommend you guys reading it if you still don’t understand social media!

Of the 250 mln users Facebook currently has, 60 mln have at least logged in once using their mobile phone!

I’m hoping for the day (probably next year) that I don’t have any need for text messaging any more, I could just send my friends Facebook messages.