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Should Historians "Mind" What's Been Said?
According to Google’s new n-gram tool, when researching history, words count.
Literally.
By analyzing over 500 billion words from 5.2 million books in Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish, the n-gram tool allows users to track the usage of words from 1500AD onwards.
The implications of this tool in terms of historical and cultural research are just beginning to come to light.
Interesting - I hope there will be some sort of accurate filtering against white noise, otherwise our era will be remembered for Beiber and Gaga, is that really representative of this generation?
Facebook, Google, Groupon, and Twitter led all companies in private acquisitions in 2012
For the first time ever, a private company has placed in the top 10 most active acquirers of businesses.
In 2012, 2,357 private technology companies were bought for a combined total of $84 billion, according to a new report from research firm PrivCo. That's up 22 percent from 2011, but the real surprise is who is doing the acquiring.
There's a trend here, "can you see what it is yet?"
Goops !
Self explanatory !
Facebook Announces Its Third Pillar "Graph Search" That Gives You Answers, Not Links Like Google
Today at Facebook's press event, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announced its latest product, called Graph Search.
Two of the members of the Graph Search team, Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky, were very high up at Google. Facebook is calling it a "Dream Team."
Zuckerberg made it very clear that this is not web search, but completely different:
It looked like an also ran, but I don't think everyone has grasped this yet. I'm going to let the dust settle before I tell you why I think this is a possible game changer for Facebook. I also want to see how they roll it out. I see real potential here, along the same lines as why LinkedIn is succeeding in making increasing profits where others are falling. There's more we need to know first, but this has potential.
The future according to Google's Larry Page
Google CEO Larry Page envisions a future in which computers plan your vacations, drive your cars, and anticipate your whims. Audacious? Maybe. But Page’s dreams have a way of coming true.
Note: On Jan 3, as Fortune published this article, the Federal Trade Commission ended its investigation of Google's search practices saying it found no evidence that the company manipulated search results…
Very expansive article about Google and Larry Page.
A great read about a visionary leader creating a global leader.
Social Media Use, abuse and neglect
I’ve just been on to LinkedIn to answer questions, I try and do a couple every day to maintain a presence on Questions and Answers on Linked In. Some of the self promotion in people’s profiles, and blatant SEO abuse is quite amusing and it got me thinking. I did a bit of research before posting this and thought my findings were worthy of reporting them to you.
I looked at one guys profile and amazingly he says he’s had loads of clients but he managed to say the same thing about his work with them about 30 times, copied and pasted, and about 20 lines each to maximize his SEO. So he gets found, he hopes. However if you looked at his profile, what does it say about his work, that he would do for you? Has he thought at all about his perception to others, does he understand that marketing himself is about the image created by that marketing, as well as extreme visibility.
I’ve been looking at another’s profile because I’m always willing to learn from others. The guy thought he was great, he’d said as much on his profile. Numbers and stats, and in other words “I’m wonderful”.In view of his social media occupation you’d expect his klout score to be above 60, but I checked and it was not, so you wonder if he can’t get his above 60, what is he going to do for your reputation.
Yes, I’ve got a “bee in my bonnet” about social media training, it see it as just such a huge waste of money as within months the social media market place has shifted. See my last blog for two examples.
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I’m curious how many of you actually offline market your online profiles ?
What you on about Simon ? I hear you ask.
Well I built up a bands followers on twitter, I liked the bassist and we’re become friends, so I ghosted their twitter account building their followers to the glass ceiling, and then passed it back to them. I gave them written instructions on how to engage with their followers, the main bit being TWEET daily. I also said put one of their social media profiles on their handout literature, marketing and PR material. They did neither and many of their twitter followers gradually drifted away.
If people follow a band they want to hear about the band.
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Getting the balance right in your exposure volume is a key issue.
To summarize
Don’t shout out too loudly, unless you are accurate, just in case people research the truth about you.
Don’t play too many games with numbers and strategies to gain advantage, just be yourself on social media, if they see you as you are…. they will come.
Don’t forget the social bit, if they don’t hear from you because you neglect them, they may wander off elsewhere.
Some tips on social media on YouTube
, nothing earth shattering but these tips have worked for me.
Google Hangouts are fun
Three people I have now met on Google plus hangouts this last week.
Apologies if I missed you out.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/106684055695094351492/posts
Hannah Silver
Humorous poster; pianist; synthesist; Suzuki piano teacher
Charles Hogge
Hangout host and serial sharer of great information
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CharlesHogge/about
https://plus.google.com/u/0/106543258884503418039/posts
Saul Fleischman
RiteTag founder, learning Python, building social media tools
https://plus.google.com/u/0/circles/hangout-buddies-p583d7f6c0c5aba42
Here are a few more.
