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Quite possibly one of the best show in data visualization ever.

I’ve probably tweeted this before, but let’s just feature it again. Social Media ROI by Socialnomics. I’d just like to reiterate a point that I always make to all eager beavers – Social Media is not a silver bullet that solves all Marketing problems. Avoid suffering from the Shiny Object Syndrome.

LaterBro allows you to schedule updates on both Twitter and Facebook. Considering my temperament, I should schedule for one at 1830h that says “NO”.

The best way to market music, I believe, is to make sure people listen to it. Repeatedly til they puke, preferably. “The hot shit in Europe right now” as fondly referred to as by Esquire, C-Mon & Kypski of The Netherlands hit the perfect note in Marketing by inviting the Public to help them with their music video.

For all my fellow traditional communications people reading this. Let me know what you think.

For when you’ve decided you need your real life back. With just a click, Web 2.0 suicide machine kills off your existing social networks so that you can have your real life back again. As for those whose real lives reside online only, I feel really sorry for you.

Google Alerts meet Twitter lists. Instead of being alerted whenever someone tweets something, with Listimonkey you can be alerted whenever someone belonging to a Twitter List of your choice tweets about something.

What a great way of promoting an anti-virus software.

Everyone knows the brand. A good number of us receives its catalogue each quarter. But how many of us pass on our IKEA catalogue to another with the same generosity we have when it comes to sharing content on Facebook? Can it be done in the first place? Would anyone bother? Instead of having people view banners with furniture, can IKEA get the Public to personally promote its brand? I wait in anticipation, for copycats to start ripping this idea off.

While the methodology remains unknown and the definition of positive, neutral and negative keywords are questionable, twitrratr is an easy-to-use free sentiment tracking tool for gathering an overall feel of what tweeples are saying.