Google joins into the game of Places… Google Places
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Check out this curious graph by nielsen about all different sorts of media.
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Most Contagious 2010
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Google launched a new Web App called ZEITGEIST, which allows you to brows visually through the volume of searches made in a certain period of time. Check it out and travel a bit in time 
Within the next day, Facebook will launch their new messaging system, which allows you to:
a. keep sending your messages within Facebook
b. receive a message from an outside email to your Facebook “inbox” where you can get a @facebook.com email address
c. Send Facebook messages as SMS (if your friend got SMS activated)
Watch the video below to find out about what Facebook was working on during the past year.
A couple of months ago iTunes launched a new service called PING and honestly it wasn’t really clear to me what this service was exactly for (except of some social media “I like this song/artist” kind of thing). Now, it seems things are getting clearer as iTunes and twitter announce a partnership (facebook rejected the cooperation) to share music through tweets. Watch the video below or read this article on fastcompany to find out more.
We’ve heard it in the past days and weeks that Facebook and Skype are working together now. Here’s a short video showing how the both platforms have been integrated. For the moment it’sonly working on PCs but it’s going to be interesting to see what will happen if two platforms with more than 1 Billion users together merge and how this will affect and change (again) our way of communicating with each other.
UM published the new WAVE (the 5th edition). A must read for everyone working in and around social media!
Wave 5 The socialisation of brands final
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Mozilla made a nice video (click this link or the image below) explaining how to create safe passwords. In January this year, the New York Times wrote a nice article about safe and hacking passwords…
[...] nearly 1 percent of the 32 million people it studied had used “123456″ as a password. The second-most-popular password was “12345″. Others in the top 20 included “qwerty”, “abc123″ and “princess”.
That suggests that hackers could easily break into many accounts just by trying the most common passwords. Because of the prevalence of fast computers and speedy networks, hackers can fire off thousands of password guesses per minute.
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Have a look at the YouTube Time Machine. Pick a year, click refresh and travel through time. CAUTION: this site is a great time killer!
