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Social denial of service attacks

In computing, a denial of service attack has been a practice deployed by groups and individuals to limit or bring down a web site for a number of decades. In the age of social networking the denial of service attack has taken the leap from a pure networking phenomenon to

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How many Twitter users in Sweden 2012?

In February 2011 Intellecta Corporate published the results of their first Twitter Census. Hampus Brynolf and Intellecta have today presented the results of their second Twitter Census. There are almost 300,000 Swedish Twitter accounts. Comparable method The same method as the first Twitter census has been used to decide

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How many Twitter users in Sweden 2011?

At the beginning of this year, Itellecta Corporate presented the results of their Twitter Census, based on data collected in December 2010. This week Aitellu has presented their research, based on data from the last week of November 2011. They found that there were 146995 Swedish Twitter accounts. What counts

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What gets shown in Facebook's Ticker?

Facebook has rolled out their Ticker to all users as part of their September updates (if you haven’t got it yet, you soon will!). Combined with other changes to the appearance of the news feed, this has raised a fair few questions from people about their privacy settings and

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Twitter users in Sweden: demographics

Intellecta Corporate have presented some additional findings based on new analysis of their data collected from Twitter during December 2010. In the previous presentation they came to the conclusion that there were 35993 active Twitter users in Sweden. The new analysis focused on segmentation of the active twitter accounts. How

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Facebook page marketing: How not to do it

A familiar shaped postcard appeared in the post the other week. A big Facebook “like” thumbs up. My kids thought it was excellent (as 3 and 5 year olds, they haven’t really been infected by Facebook yet). For me, it just sent my web-sense into overdrive. ICA Maxi Nacka

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14 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Weeks 10-12, 2011)

For your reading pleasure this week, a collection of links (and summaries) including articles related to: Social media, UX, intranets, SEO and web analytics. Social Ellos at the forefront of Nordic Digital e-commerce Jesper gets all excited about Ellos and how they are dragging their shopping experience into the future.

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13 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 6-7, 2011)

This time, a collection of links (and summaries) including articles related to: Social media and social search, web strategy and web management, Optimisation, usability testing and Eye tracking. Social media & social search Google Search Finally Going Fully Social With Shared Twitter Links And Even Quora Data More Google (social)

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Google Social search: followers and follows

This week Google rolled out a new feature to it’s SERPs and snippets when logged in. If you have a Google Profile and Google has indexed who you are connected to, there’s a chance that you will see a small profile picture along with a name and the

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How many twitter users in Sweden?

Today Intellecta Corporate presented the results of their Twitter Census. The first time a systematic analysis of Twitter use in Sweden has been performed. During December 2010, Over a million Twitter accounts were analysed and over twenty million tweets. Leading to a figure of 91316 Swedish Twitter accounts. What’s

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12 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 42-43, 2010)

Information Architecture 101: Techniques and Best Practices A great “briefing paper” from Six Revisions, intending to raise awareness of the discipline with designers. Mental Models The latest Alertbox post covers what users think they know and how that affects their behaviour. Users, designers and developers all have differing mental models.

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9 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 39-41, 2010)

Implementing Yammer within Your Organization Using Twitter Best Practices The featured tool in this article is Yammer, but the tactics and principles described are valid for whatever intranet collaboration tool you are rolling out. Three critical tactics according to Hanesbrands: Gain leadership support, Partner early with IT, Help employees use

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8 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 37-38, 2010)

Children’s Websites: Usability Issues in Designing for Kids 9 years on from their first survey, Nielsen have produced a new study into the usability of Children’s websites. “It’s now common for a 7-year-old kid to be a seasoned Internet user with several years’ experience.” – If we think

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8 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 27-28, 2010)

The Real Life Social Network v2 216 slides, takes about 20 mins to view and read; but it’s worth it. It’s where we are heading. With this kind of insight, working at Google, you can start to understand that Google producing a Facebook killer isn’t at all

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Why changing Twitter name is a 404 nightmare

In February this year Swedish Social media facilitator Anders Sporring decided for personal branding reasons to change his Twitter profile name from @CityRat59 to @AndersSporring I’m going to side-step the debate of whether this is a good or bad thing to do from a branding perspective, but instead use

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6 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 14, 2010)

Eye Tracking and Web Usability: A Good Fit? A detailed and soba look into the neurology behind eye tracking studies and specifically it’s application to web usability testing. If you’re in Sweden/Stockholm then you can get a hands on experience of eye tracking at one of these

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5 Articles worth reading... (Spotted: Week 13, 2010)

Consistency: Key to a Better User Experience I’m a big fan of consistency. It’s an essential factor in having a successful web presence. This UX Booth article covers a number of ways in which your site should be consistent. A beginner’s guide to blogging for business Some

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For your reading pleasure... (week 12, 2010)

Scrolling and Attention Although many have said that Nielsen’s conclusion is obvious – “what’s most important for the users’ goals or your business goals should be above the fold” – there are also many who still claim that the fold doesn’t exist. It’s does, it’s just much

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For your reading pleasure... (week 10, 2010)

Social Media Cheat Sheet A useful refererence to have in your collection. It’s comprehensive enough, up to date, and contains relevant advice. Reporting from the Internet and using social media Reuters have published their social media guidelines. Built on Reuters own “Trust Principles”, they are a good, sensible, example

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For your reading pleasure... (week 9, 2010)

5 intranet trends for business managers in 2010 Janus lists 5 trends: metrics, mobility, social, task-based, usability. The same 5 equally apply to any web-based activity, not just intranets… Is collaboration enough to connect-the-dots? Some good solid advice on what components are needed to make collaboration capable of “joining the

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For your reading pleasure... (week 8, 2010)

Q&A with Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice Basically plugging their new book, but nevertheless gives you some insight into eye tracking usability testing (and some points to agree or disagree with if you’ve performed some eye tracking testing!) The Olympics Impact on Google Search Results The start

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For your reading pleasure... (week 7, 2010)

Study: Ages of social network users Compiled using estimated data dragged out of Google Ad Planner rather than a survey of actual users. Nevertheless it’s an interesting post and although the specific figures should be used with care, general comparisons and trends can be noted. 3 Models That Will

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For your reading pleasure (week 4, 2010)

Common and real concerns about intranet micro-blogging Oscar de-bunks, with the help of some sociology and communication theory, a few of the most commonly aired concerns regarding the using of micro-blogging as an intranet tool Top 5 Misconceptions about How Social Media traffic Converts Jesper helps explain how social media

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A Christmas shopping story

I may be an Internet professional, but i don’t think I’m that much of a freak when it comes to my shopping process. About this time last year we (my siblings and I) discussed buying our mother a digital photo frame. In the end we put that thought

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Facebook: Fastest growing web site of all time

Facebook: Fastest growing web site of all time Facebook’s sustained growth is staggering. Mashable have made some calculations based on various available figures. At an estimated 500,000 new users per day it must be by far the fastest growing user-base the Internet has ever seen. Although impressive, such