James Young (Art & Design)

Here’s another interesting video. If you are in any way involved with website design, development, or management, you spend a lot of time looking at other successful websites in an attempt to discover what works well. During this process you’ll often contemplate what drove certain decisions. Therefore it’s very intriguing when you get a chance to hear an actual Q&A about such topics. So, check out this press demo from Facebook:



Found via: Mashable

trendwatching.com has released their latest report. Here’s a quick summary of the 10 trends:

1. Business as unusual
2. Urbany
3. Real-time reviews
4. (F)luxury
5. Mass Mingling
6. Eco-easy
7. Tracking & alerting
8. Embedded generosity
9. Profile myning
10. Maturialism

Twittermaven recently surveyed 240 people with 6 questions regarding interacting with brands. Here are some key findings, as well as a sample chart.

• Most users (89%) agree that brands should engage their customers on Twitter.
  
• almost 90% of users would frown upon poor or inappropriate brand use of Twitter.
• 60% of respondents would recommend a company based on their presence on Twitter and 80% of Twitter users will reward those brands
• More than 60% of respondents have 100+ followers and almost 50% of respondents have posted more than 1000 Tweets