30+ Impressive Social Media Stats Visualized

30+ Impressive Social Media Stats Visualized

If you're a frequent reader of Mashable, you know we love stats. Just this week we've shared data about social media's reach with marketers, the huge growth of online video, and the relative banality of tweets.

However, a new video put together by Erik Qualman takes our obsession with stats to another level. The online marketer and author of the upcoming book Socialnomics has put together a fantastic video comprised of more than 30 different stats about the growth of social media.

While we're familiar with some of the stats (he even cites some of our reports in the video), there were a bunch of new and intriguing ones, including:

1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media

If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour

25% of search results for the World's Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content

Qualman's full video is embedded below, and you can read all the stats (and links to their respective sources) on his blog.

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Burning Man Responds to EFF over fair use and photo rights attack

Burning Man Responds to EFF over fair use and photo rights attack

Writing on behalf of the The Burning Man Organization (BMO), Andie Grace has issued a response to the EFF blog post which criticized the annual fest's photo policies as overly restrictive:

Believe me, I'd love to see a better solution than wading through piles of images to approve certain public uses (and turn down or enforce against others) every year, but after 10 years working with these licenses and observing their utility during the evolution of the digital age, the only thing I'm certain of is that the issue is not as simple as the EFF would like you to think.

Example: find me a participant who would vote "yes" on seeing a video or photo of the Man burning, or their own art car or sculpture, in a car commercial. You probably can't - but even the Creative Commons Noncommercial license wouldn't enable Burning Man itself to enforce against such use, nor the dozens of other similar violations it sees each year because the car company would claim (correctly) that Burning Man has no standing to enforce the Creative Commons license, only the photographer does -- and what if the photographer was the one who sold the image to the ad agency in the first place? What if we couldn't locate the photographer to join forces with us? A Creative Commons license simply does not provide Burning Man the direct ability to enforce against such use - something we've unfortunately run up against many times as we work to keep such commercialist wolves at bay.

"Snatching Digital Rights" or Protecting Our Culture? Burning Man and the EFF (blog.burningman.com)

Previously:

• EFF criticizes Burning Man for limiting attendees' fair use rights ...

(Livingbrush Woman Art by Scott Fray, Image by Bryce Hunt)

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Week in Apple: Antiglare display returns to MBP, Snow Leopard and Outlook for Mac coming soon

Week in Apple: Antiglare display returns to MBP, Snow Leopard and Outlook for Mac coming soon

Snow Leopard may be arriving far sooner than most of us expected, and Microsoft is dropping Entourage in order to replace it with a version of Outlook for the Mac. If that's not exciting enough for this week, other top Apple news involved antiglare screens coming back to the MacBook Pro, more rumors about the Apple tablet, and possible Blu-ray support coming to iTunes. Read on for the roundup:

Snow Leopard cometh soon, brings installation tricks galore: The latest build seeded to developers has gone golden master and could be set for retail release any day now. The latest information suggests that installing Snow Leopard should be a breeze, too.

Office for Mac to get actual version of Outlook in 2010: Hell has frozen over: Microsoft's Mac Business Unit says that the next version of Office for Mac will arrive in 2010 with a genuine Outlook client and better Exchange support.

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Backup And Search Your Friends’ Tweets With Google Reader

Backup And Search Your Friends' Tweets With Google Reader

Thanks to a combination of RSS magic and Twitter API, it's possible to search the tweets of everyone in your Twitter network with Google Reader. Here's how to do it. (more…)

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The Mind-Mapping Wiki

The Mind-Mapping Wiki

In a post some months ago, I promised to tell you more about WikIT, the mind mapping wiki but kept getting distracted.  Now I have found a few minutes to keep my word.

WikIT is a facinating resource.  It takes the line that different uses of 'information maps' (I'm planning a post about that phrase!) are best served by different map types and different rules.  And it goes right ahead and supports this line with examples and advice.

This wiki covers the many types of maps – mind maps, concept maps, argument maps and others.  It explains the variations and how you might choose one type if you're learning something, another type if you're planning a new project, and something else again if you're doing some deep analysis.  The main map types are introduced in a summary article here that branches out to many other pages.

Although it looks a lot like Wikipedia, and has the same types of search facilities, WikIT often uses mind maps for navigation – that must be a boon – and takes advantage of MindManager 8's ability to deliver Flash and PDF mind maps that work, as well as looking pretty.  You can click a link that will open a map from WikIT in your browser and start exploring.

The best place to start is the list of all the subjects covered by the wiki.  Visit that and, if you're like me, it will set you off on clicking trail from subject to subject.  Not all articles are complete, but the planning has been pretty comprehensive (I detect planning by mind map!)

Information Tamers, who put this wiki together, have also remedied a hole in my site by adding a list of free mapping software on one of its pages.  Price is a selection criterion that I didn't think to include when I was deciding on the controls in the 'Refine software list' tab, and when I was approached for permission to use all the information I was happy to see it drawn on and filtered in this way.  I always am, provided the source is acknowledged and linked to with a "follow" link.  "Free" is the price that people are most often seeking for software, as well!

Vic
http://www.mind-mapping.org/
The master list of mind mapping &
information management software

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