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Re: On Blogging - Only Dead Fish

Armando Alves — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 11:13:31 -0000

Thanks for keeping up the good writing.

Re: «Partícula de Deus» pode destruir-nos a qualquer momento, alerta Stephen Hawking

Armando Alves — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:51:06 -0000

Acabei de perder um segundo a ler este comentário.

Re: Another 'Facebook Is Dead' Study

Armando Alves — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:45:01 -0000

Not to mention using an epidemiological model for complex network growth, when preferential-attachment is what Facebook observes most of the time. Or removing trend data just because it didn't seem natural. But they got their linkbait right, at least.

Re: O Mercado do Marketing das Redes Sociais Está Louco

Armando Alves — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 05:24:21 -0000

Rui,

Se pudesses pagar para que mais que 16% dos teus subscritores abrissem as tuas newsletters (e idelamente convertessem), também pagavas. E fica por aqui o argumento.

Re: Broadcasting my links and things I read

Armando Alves — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:17:57 -0000

Been using the same workflow for the last 7 months. It's a shame that Google+ API is read only for most apps, as i've probably would have chosen to share there instead of Linkedin.

Re: Twitter is Legion – #softbook

Armando Alves — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:37:55 -0000

Long live the #softbook :)

Re: http://blog.celsopinto.com/post/5728926942

Armando Alves — Sun, 22 May 2011 09:05:28 -0000

Remind me again why I still have that book with me?

Re: Twitter usage in Europe

Armando Alves — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:13:59 -0000

According to @ev , mobile only accounts for 46% worldwide.
http://blog.twitter.com/201...

Which, along with desktop usage, should make it at least a 60% increase regarding web audience.

Re: Twitter usage in Europe

Armando Alves — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:33:19 -0000

Including mobile and desktop, will at least double the usage.

Re: Oreo: Facebook Fan Page Example in Detail #2

Armando Alves — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:58:54 -0000

Just out of curiosity, what's the best engagement rate average value you found so far ?

I've had pages with over 0.5%, but i do concede that an for most categories, a 0.1% rate is the expected average.

Re: http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/2698583348

Armando Alves — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:19:17 -0000

You have lists. That recently have been made available as an option on Recent News, so you can always filter the news by whichever list you find most relevant.

The fact that less than 5% use it is another problem. The new profile makes some use of it, but it's still a feature waiting for the right UX.

Re: Surrogates are here!

Armando Alves — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:09:01 -0000

On these themes, i must recommend Kevin Kelly's latest book: “What technology wants”

The notion of preparing ourselves for a future where technology shapes our lives, and our need to cope with new emerging behaviors is something worth discussing.

If you're short of time, get the podcast (80m in) at NYPL with Steven Johnson:
http://fora.tv/2010/10/18/S...

Re: http://jonathanmoore.com/post/1374425703

Armando Alves — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:31:55 -0000

Yes, it's Ben Goldacre's book. Though i've skipped ahead and went to read Nonsense:
http://www.amazon.com/Nonse...

To escape from the current social media echo chamber, a few books on critical thinking won't hurt anyone.

Re: http://jonathanmoore.com/post/1374425703

Armando Alves — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:53:12 -0000

Come on Jonathan,

how come we have the same reading list ?!?!?
Don't tell me you'll be reading Bad Science next ...

(btw, Delivering Happiness was sent to me by the publisher; a review is in order - would love to compare notes)

Re: Facebook Groups versus Groupings

Armando Alves — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:01:11 -0000

It all comes down to 'Customization vs. Personalization'.

Where Last.fm aggregates your listening habits and presents your neighborhood, or people collective define an hashtag on Twitter, on Facebook we have to go out on a herculean task to create lists (yes, i was one of the 5% who used it) and create/invite people to groups that will end as digital zombies (with no community managent, most of these new groups will be dead in less then a month).

Almost seems that Zuck skipped the Network Externalities chapter of Web 2.0 :)

Re: Journalism in the Age of Data

Armando Alves — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:43:36 -0000

It seems to be community wide:

http://bit.ly/cAQO8Q

Regarding Visual Complexity and the boom in data visualization sites, it feels like quoting Yogi Berra:
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded".

:)

Re: Journalism in the Age of Data

Armando Alves — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:46:11 -0000

Have you checked the new Visualizing.org ?

Re: Brand Monitoring: How Did The Tipp-Ex Campaign Perform?

Armando Alves — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:33:52 -0000

Hi Fred
You focused mostly on reach (mentions / buzz).
I'm still curious about brand recall:
http://www.asourceofinspira...

Care to comment?

Re: http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/1053251807

Armando Alves — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:42:41 -0000

As with Apple Tv, this is version 1 of Ping.
When Apple decides to really open Ping to external services, then we'll have a true revolution.

It's not really social unless you have your strong ties there: just ask Facebook.

Re: I, for one, welcome my new amphibian overlords - Tao of Mac

Armando Alves — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:56:04 -0000

So now you're buildin a new Death Star at another planet. Good for you.
May the dark overlords there help you to tame those ewoks.

Oh, and best of luck and the sort of thinks earthlings wish at these times.
Of course you won't need any of those: talent, hard work and the dark force would do fine.

Re: The Next Part of the Journey

Armando Alves — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:36:38 -0000

Congrats, Alan.

It will surely be a challenge to deliver sound strategic advice for a service that is seldom regarded as tactics and tools. I'm sure you'll add enough of the "people" factor.

Re: HUGE: Twitter Lets You Automatically Follow Your Facebook Friends [UPDATED]

Armando Alves — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:03:03 -0000

Hmm, not working yet:

“An error has occurred because Facebook has blocked your ability to allow this application to look up your friends. Twitter has requested that Facebook remove the block.”

Re: Joining Foursquare

Armando Alves — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:34:50 -0000

Congratulations Eric!

I believe you'll be a great addition to the team at Foursquare, if the past few years are any indication. It's been a pleasure to watch you grow professionaly, even if the blogging isn't what it used to be :)

Re: The Human Algorithm: How Google Ranks Tweets in Real-Time Search

Armando Alves — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:54:20 -0000

Hi Brian.

Clay Shirky has discussed this issue, on what he calls "Algorithmic Authority", addressing also the problem on how to value reputation.
With real-time search, each individual must be interpreted by Google and i find it hard to extract reputation without context. Even if many people are linking to something, that doesn't necessarily means it's important to my search query.

Social search will help figuring out what's important, but in the end, as usual with Google and the whole Web 2.0, the more people use it, the more perfected it will get.

Re: Codebits 2009

Armando Alves — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:16:59 -0000

Por mostrarem que somos um país pequeno mas com grande espírito de inovação e vontade de fazer acontecer, os meus sinceros parabéns.
Por vir do Sapo, que apesar de pertencer a um dinossauro como a PT continua com a centelha dos tempos de Aveiro, a minha admiração.
E porque sei que vão continuar a querer fazer melhor (até porque, e apesar de, não existirem outros que o façam), o meu apoio.

Até breve.