Social Media Monitoring: Are You Listening To Me?

 

 

Social Media Monitoring: Are You Listening To Me?

Every single day, I’m learning more and more about Social Media and realized how it affects our everyday lives even in the simplest ways. I gather information about Social Media through searching, listening and monitoring. Every day, I’m being reminded that perseverance is what will get me to where I want to be and so I really try to study and understand the field that I’m in right now. I do my work with full of eagerness because I want to learn something new.
According to Wikipedia active listening is a communication technique that requires the listener to understand, interpret, and evaluate what they hear. The ability to listen actively can improve personal relationships through reducing conflicts, strengthening cooperation, and fostering understanding, intent to “listen for meaning”.
I suggest that active listening should “focus on who you are listening to, whether in a group or one-on-one, in order to understand what he or she is saying. For me, listening and monitoring is good; as it gives immediate insight as to the breadth of the community, how they are feeling, what they are saying, passion points, etc. But listening without acting, in my opinion, is worthless. At the most basic level listening on the web is just like listening in the real world. In our everyday life we listen for mentions of our name and topics we’re interested in. By listening with these things we give ourselves the opportunity to learn more about on the things that we’re interested for, you can be able to find online spaces where the audience is already communicating, monitoring the conversations that happen there. Because social media is open and public by nature, listening is not only welcome – it’s expected.
Today, most of the business owners doing a nice job for building their respective online communities through allowing fans to provide suggestions in a public. Once that their fans submit suggestions they allow their communities to vote or to choose on each of them. With that they take the top suggestions and implement them!

Toronto: City-ventures, Part 1

The next day unfolded, and like always — the early birds would get the worms.

 The earlier we were, the more places we can get to. Rise and shine, we did — rather groggily. Travellers need sleep, but they also need breakfast.
 Luckily the place we’re staying in, had those free breakfast things (you know, the one with the waffle makers and hot coffee). We feasted for an hour, before starting our day.
 

If Toronto is this busy, imagine New York…

There is a Starbucks in every corner, literally.

After some twists and turns in the busy city of Toronto, we finally found our destination. The only thing left is finding a parking space. If anything, downtown Toronto demands heavy pay for parking. Inconvenient money-wise, but at least the car has a comfy place to park into. I sympathise with cars. First stop is ROM, or the Royal Ontario Museum. The dinosaur exhibit just opened — perfect timing! However, I didn’t spend too much time looking around in that area. The museum had so much exhibits, and so much artifacts to see. However, there was this pretty awesome dinosaur skeleton on display by the entrance.

The display cases distributed around the halls, give you a taste of their vast collection.

They have a huge collection of aboriginal items. From hunting gear, to clothes, to accessories, and a ton of history! There’s so much to see, read and learn. If we had a longer time frame, I’d explore the whole place! Amongst other things, there were even animals! Old weapons, Imperial artifacts from Asian Cultures, crystals, and the notable Jorinde Voigt exhibit. She’s a German artist who “draws out” musical scores, and had one huge room in the ROM dedicated to her work on Beethoven’s musical scores.

A few of Jorinde Voigt’s pieces.

I enjoyed my time in the museum. There was so much to see, however, there was so little time. I have to cut the blog post short though — I wouldn’t want you guys to scroll endlessly through this one post (as if you guys didn’t do that already). There’s so much to talk about, that I have to once again — break them into parts.

It followed me home…

… can I keep it?

I found this elderly ‘Den Haag’ Dutch bike on a pile of rubbish waiting for collection. It’s a beautiful machine, if rather battered and rusty, with mudguards, lights, massive chain guard, frame built from girders, and a luggage rack that can carry all your shopping, three friends and a dog. Unfortunately it would be a pain in the backside to get up hills, and if you go cycling more than a few kilometres here, hills will feature in the journey. I’m guessing this bike was left in the garage for some time after the owner got bored or too old to keep pushing it up hills, or lost the nerve to go down them. The bike certainly hadn’t moved for many years when I saw it waiting to be chomped by a dustbin lorry. There is no way I was going to let that happen so I rescued it.

As an added bonus I’ve found an
excusereason to keep the bike, as I’m commuting to a local hospital at the moment (as part of the learning to be an ambulance driver fightback) and one of the joys of living on the edge of the public transport system is that the metro passes us every ten to fifteen minutes, but the bus seems to leave just before the tram gets in, and even less off peak, which is when I’m usually travelling because of the hospital shifts. It is only a few kilometres to the tram stop, but there was no way I was going to leave the Xtracycle to be trashed there all day, but I can leave this bike chained to a fence and feel pretty safe that it will still be there when I get back: only a very strange person would want a Dutch three-speed around here. With this as my commuter bike I’m saving myself about half an hour and a couple of Euros a day. Considering the bike came free I reckon that’s a pretty good deal.

Most importantly, when riding the Den Haag I feel incredibly chic and cosmopolitan, right up to the point I drove through a pile of horse poo.

L’autocensura di Bombay

Quello che vedete qui sopra é lo “scandaloso” quadro di Damyanti Sharma, una pittrice di New Delhi, che é stato ritenuto “inappropriato” dal direttore della più importante galleria d’arte di Bombay, la Jehangir Art Gallery, per “timore che possa offendere la sensibilità” di qualche visitatore a causa del suo “forte contenuto erotico”.

The lovers, by Akbar Padamsee

L’ondata di sessofobia in India, e a Bombay in particolare, continua dunque a crescere con rinnovato vigore. Il direttore della Jehangir Art Gallery, il quale si é detto personalmente convinto dell’assurdità della cosa, ha tuttavia sottolineato le conseguenze pratiche che la galleria ha dovuto subire negli ultimissimi tempi a causa del “nuovo” moralismo imperante nella metropoli: opere d’arte confiscate dalla polizia, spesso con arresto in “fragranza di reato” dell’artista; chiusura della mostra; pubblicità negativa sui media; attacchi più o meno violenti da parte di appartenenti a precise (e note) forze politiche.
L’India, patria del Kamasutra, non é nuova a queste ondate sessofobiche. Nel 1954 fece scalpore l’arresto del pittore Akbar Padamsee, uno dei più grandi artisti contemporanei indiani, mandato in carcere e poi processato per aver esibito in una mostra il suo quadro “The lovers”,  raffigurato qui a fianco, in cui un uomo stilizzato appoggia la mano sul seno di una donna, anch’essa stilizzata.
Il processo, per cui si mobilitarono centinaia di personalità e artisti del mondo intero (tra cui il critico d’arte tedesco Rudy Vonleyden, che realizzò un corposo collage di fotografie erotiche tratte dai templi di Khajurao e Konarak), vide poi assolto l’artista grazie ad una formula di compromesso giuridico (il cosiddetto “Akbar Padamsee Code”), che sancì una sorta di extraterritorialità delle gallerie d’arte indiane dal comune senso di pudore del Paese.
Compromesso che, a giudicare da quello che sta succedendo, oggi pare non reggere più alla forza d’urto delle spallate dei nuovi guardiani della moralità indiana.

On the road again.

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Yesterday evening I had an invitation to visit a friend in York, and decided to ride. I’d borrowed a bike*, and York is one of the UK’s three ‘cycling cities’** that were being trumpeted to rival Amsterdam and Copenhagen as world-class cycling centres, so I figured I’d be okay. And I was, mostly because I started on a fairly minor road and some kind soul reminded me that in the UK people drive on the left before I met any traffic.

I can’t say I’m overwhelmed by the bike lanes: certainly I’d have preferred them to have priority over side roads like in Germany, and it would have been even better if the one I was using hadn’t given up after a couple of hundred metres and pitched me into the road, but it wasn’t too bad.

In the other hand, I liked these nifty speed lumps in the roads. I’m sure you’re all used to them by now, but humour me while I ramble on about them like some country cousin discovering electricity: they are just narrow enough for a car to drive over them fairly quickly without spilling the drivers coffee, so cars seem utterly focussed on keeping their wheels either side of the things. I soon noticed that vehicles overtaking would go over (round?) the more distant bump, giving me a reasonable amount of room. Just as well as I was on the road all the way to my friend’s house and back: if I’d followed the designated cycle route I’d most likely still be out there.

Come to think of it, none of the drivers who passed were using their phone either, because they had to concentrate on the road to avoid leaving part of the car on the road. If only we could get them to treat pedestrians with the same respect as their own vehicles…

*Thanks dad…

**The others being Bristol and… where are the others exactly?

Nintendo's Iwata: Social is "mandatory" for gaming

Even Nintendo is getting comfortable with social gaming
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In a lengthy interview with Kotaku, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata explained that adding social features to titles is now "mandatory", even for single-player titles. Nintendo has already hinted at its social plans with the Miiverse platform launching with the Wii U.

"We have reached an era where even a single-player game experience [can] have a social component that is very important," Iwata told Kotaku. "And I think, again, that social component is mandatory."

"Early on, when I played a Mario game, it was really fun for me to sit and chat with my friends about, 'Hey I found coins over here, there's a hidden place.' That interaction was great," he said.

"Of course the Internet does provide a lot of that interaction, but it's not built for that purpose. For example, Facebook is something that connects you socially with a lot of different folks, but that doesn't guarantee that the people you are going to have interactions with via Facebook are interested in games. And what I'm saying is that I don't believe that the life experiences that you have-and those might be with the people you are connected with on Facebook-are not equal to the gaming experiences you might have with a lot of different folks."

And that's where Iwata believes Nintendo can shine with Miiverse.

"I feel that we need to create-or present-a gaming platform as the place to create that 'social graph' for folks who are in gaming circles, I guess. So that's kind of the reason for creating Miiverse," Iwata said.

"If you look at gaming services, for example if you look at Xbox Live, one of the more traditionally or generally accepted features of the gaming service is the ability to play with folks at different locations at the same time," he said. "On the other hand, you're not always going to be available at the same time to play with each other. And of course we're going to have that service of head-to-head [multiplayer, when you are] on at the same time playing games against each other, but what we really want to do is create a place where folks who are playing by themselves will not feel like they are playing by themselves. "

The Wii U is expected to be released sometime in the fourth quarter of 2012, but Nintendo has yet to provide a firm release date. The company has scheduled an event on September 13, where it's expected to announce a final price and release date for the system.

Nintendo confirms Nintendo Power closure

Nintendo has confirmed its long running publication Nintendo Power will be shut down by the end of the year.

The company’s statement comes a day after news hit of the possible shuttering.

Along with the information we had to chew on then, Nintendo has added that the December 2012 issue will be the magazine’s last.

“Nintendo can confirm that Future US will end the production of Nintendo Power magazine with the last issue slated for December 2012. For Nintendo Power subscription inquiries, please visit nintendopower.com/customerservice.”

Nintendo Explains Their Wii U 'Miiverse' Social Networking Concept

According to a lengthy Kotaku article, Nintendo has begun openly discussing its direction with the Miiverse. Nintendo's new social networking concept will launch with the Wii U (rumored to released within the next couple months), and provide Nintendo gamers the ability to communicate with one-another in a fashion similar to Facebook. Players will be able to post recent accomplishments in various titles, update their "status" and view friends' various Miis from their console.

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While both Facebook and Twitter exist in various forms on current consoles like the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, Nintendo, by forging their own path into social networking are doing something Sony and Microsoft haven't been brave enough to do: take risks. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told Kotaku that "I feel that we need to create-or present-a gaming platform as the place to create that 'social graph' for folks who are in gaming circles." Charting one's accomplishments in-game, or charting one's progression through a game's narrative is an interesting approach for Nintendo, as they try to make their social network a big draw for fans.
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Microsoft and Sony's reliance on Twitter and Facebook are interesting in that it weaves existing social networking sites that most everyone is familiar with into a near-seamless gaming experience. On both ends, gamers can post Achievements or Trophies to their Facebook Timelines, even inputting a bit about the accomplishment itself. Twitter handles about the same, with users able to quickly throw their gaming accomplishments up with relative ease. Nintendo bucking this trend of utilizing existing social networks by forging their own path is an interesting experiment.

The online Miiverse service will launch on the Wii U and then spread across Nintendo's other platforms, including the 3DS handheld system. The Miiverse networking system is aimed at bringing gamers together. It's less about bragging rights, as opposed to seeing what your friends are up to and perhaps joining them while playing a game like "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2" or whatever new "Smash Brothers" title is released for the system. While some can argue that this is similar to Xbox Live's avatar system, it's streamlined to look and feel almost like Facebook, only with a bit more personality and life to it.

"We have reached an era where even a single-player game experience [can] have a social component that is very important," Iwata said to Kotaku, "and I think, again, that social component is mandatory." Single player games often will include a social aspect to enhance gameplay. Capcom's recent title "Dragon's Dogma" is an exercise in lengthy role-playing coupled with using player-created characters as companions during the journey. Players access a pool of player-created "pawns" and use them during the main single-player quest. The concept has worked well for Capcom with millions of players creating pawns and using one-another's creations during their adventures.

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Nintendo could be looking to Capcom's concept as a way of creating a more user-centric experience with the Wii U. The Wii itself was notoriously lacking of any serious online play (making use of complicated "friend codes" instead of Microsoft's Gamertags system), however; a system that links Wii U owners and 3DS owners together through a shared network, and allows the freeflow of content and user-generated material would certainly increase the use of the network exponentially.

Iwata was quick to note the comparison of the Miiverse to existing social networking entities by saying "of course the Internet does provide a lot of that interaction," he added, "but it's not built for that purpose. For example, Facebook is something that connects you socially with a lot of different folks, but that doesn't guarantee that the people you are going to have interactions with via Facebook are interested in games. And what I'm saying is that I don't believe that the life experiences that you have-and those might be with the people you are connected with on Facebook-are not equal to the gaming experiences you might have with a lot of different folks."

The Miiverse is said to include online hints and tips posted by friends and other players, should playing a game become too difficult. Basic online messaging, through the use of the Wii U's gamepad, which will also serve as a full QWERTY keyboard. Iwata added that Nintendo focus-tested the Miiverse system before deciding to implement it, "When we looked at the timing of how we are going to be implementing it, [we said], 'Okay, when are the best points when people want to have social interactions and makes them want to reach out and say, 'Me too,' 'I did that,' 'I feel the same way,'?' I think, on a very human level, that is what will give them a sense of satisfaction."

"If you look at gaming services, for example if you look at Xbox Live, one of the more traditionally or generally accepted features of the gaming service is the ability to play with folks at different locations at the same time," Iwata said to Kotaku. "On the other hand, you're not always going to be available at the same time to play with each other. And of course we're going to have that service of head-to-head [multiplayer, when you are] on at the same time playing games against each other, but what we really want to do is create a place where folks who are playing by themselves will not feel like they are playing by themselves. They'll be able to share those experiences and have that empathy that we mentioned earlier."

As of right now, there are no announcements as to what Wii U titles will make use of the Miiverse, however; Iwata added "We will be making announcements as we are talking more about specific software and we'll ask you to wait for those announcements of how we are implementing it with those software titles."

With the press conference in September hosted by Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Aime, it'll be interesting to hear if there are any further announcements related to the Miiverse.

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Warm-up match - Real Madrid 2-0 Celtic Benzema Baoshe seal the victory

The last game for Real Madrid this summer, the trip started, opponents Celtic Club. The final Real Madrid by virtue of the Kalie Hong and Karim Benzema, each half a goal 2-0 win over opponents, and the end of the undefeated tour of the United States zipper.

After the start of the game Real Madrid quickly control the situation. Jacob & Co. surprised me with this great watch. Thank you! More data) before the games had the ball horizontal pulling out of a defender, right foot force in the restricted area line shot, the ball affixed to the left column wide. 3 minutes later Higuain and Kaka to do with Brazilian midfielder reached the small restricted area of ​​the small-angle shot was saved by goalkeeper.

Real Madrid, 21 minutes, the first to score. Kaka before the ball is the face of 4 people double-team return after Alonso's long-distance balls accurately find Higuain inside the restricted area, the rescue is not complete in the defense of Boston Celtics guard Kalie Hong rear plug on steals Akira direct attack of the goalkeeper ball trips into Buddhism, 1-0!

Intermission even Real Madrid for a few people, Granero replaced Hedi La Benzema to replace Kaka, Casillas replace Adam. Cohen Bertrand ball reached after continuous shaking in the opponents restricted area space left foot fired Celtic goalkeeper barely hit the ball to the bottom line.

Followed by Real Madrid continue to be replaced, Kalie Hong, Alonso, C Luo, Ramos and Abel Figueroa was substituted the Dima Leah, Wallachia, Diarra, Ozil, and Nacho replace the appearance . C Luo take a break on the bench after being benched the edge went to the fans in the stands below, took the jersey of the fans threw taken the trouble to give you signature.

65 minutes Real Madrid left to play continuous transmission with Benzema dribbling after raw Cohen Bertrand passed to the rear side of outflanking place the other guard reached the restricted area, the latter's close range shot was denied by defender bottom line. 1 minutes after Benzema comeback, the Frenchman just after position in the circle then Ozil Sharu restricted Houchangchangzhuan, dipped his left foot after the far corner of the face of only a defender one-on-one defense continuous shaking break. 2-0! Real Madrid has basically locked up the victory.

82 minutes Real Madrid before the unreal, Dima Elijah left then Ozil the ball reached the restricted area to adjust to the far corner of his left foot playing arc pocket, the ball far post. After 1 minute, Real Madrid again initiated the break, Benzema in the frontcourt to play 3-point shot to the right, Dima Elijah follow-up after the volley of small angle, the ball rub column wide. The final score of 2-0 to Real Madrid kept to an end, the Galacticos to the end of the undefeated tour of the U.S. zipper.

Cristiano Ronaldo want to win another Ballon d'Or

The Portugal international told that Cristiano Ronaldo has worked hard all season to win both team and individual trophies and now hopes he will be named the world's top player

Cristiano Ronaldo has his eyes on the Ballon d'Or award after enjoying collective and individual success with Real Madrid last season. Ronaldo admitted that at the start of last season he targeted winning as many trophies as possible for Madrid and himself, but now he has his gaze firmly set on winning the Ballon d'Or.

After losing out on the award to Barcelona forward Lionel Messi for the past two years, Ronaldo is hoping he has done enough to be presented with the honour this year.

"It would be fantastic  to win the trophy" Ronaldo told Goal.com.

"It would mean a lot, I've worked all season for that to win both collective and individual trophies." “My immediate goals are to work to the fullest with my team in order to fight for all the available championships. I don’t prioritise one because I want to conquer however many I can, but to do that we’ll have to fight our hardest and do it with humility," the Portuguese forward said.

Ronaldo secured his first Ballon d'Or in 2008 after leading Manchester Untied to an impressive double, winning both the Premier League and the Champions League.

Earlier this week, the 27-year-old was named the top player in the world in the Goal.com 50.

X360Key pour Xbox 360 afin Spielite.de!

X360Key est une Xbox 360 USB  Grossiste R4 SDHC  chargeur qui peut émuler le lecteur optique de la Xbox 360. Cela permet de jouer à tous la Xbox 360 et Xbox 1 jeux depuis n’importe quel périphérique de stockage USB. Il est compatible avec tous  les modèles de Xbox 360, Slim et FAT et AP 2.5 offre des fonctionnalités telles que l’émulation.
Propriétés:
● écoute du client: une interface utilisateur intuitive, pas de soudure nécessaire
● Compatible avec tous les modèles Xbox 360 FAT (bientôt Slim)
● Prise en charge Sogut comme tous les Xbox 360 et Xbox 1 jeux
● Prise en charge des systèmes de fichiers populaires: NTFS, ext2/3/4 undMac OS X Extended
● haute vitesse interface USB2
● pad de contrôle USB élégante pour sélectionner les jeux et de contrôler la x360key
● haute performance système embarqué Linux avec une carte micro SD
● firmware du système Linux embarqué, remplissez mis à jour via USB
● Mise à niveau FPGA appareil entièrement via le port USB
Mode de récupération
● – une programmation incorrecte peut être restauré X360Key
● Ne pas conduire ou flash JTAG bidouille nécessaire
● AP2.5 émulation
X360Key les propriétés suivantes:
Compatible avec tous les modèles Xbox 360 SLIM
Web Control Panel (Requiert un dongle WiFi)
Jeux commencer les partages NFS et SAMA (Requiert un dongle WiFi)
Xbox Live soutien
Une copie de sauvegarde du jeu original Xbox 360 afin de créer un stockage de données USB
Comment fonctionne le x360key?
Le x360key se compose de deux parties, une carte mère et une télécommande. La carte mère est connecté au bus SATA de la Xbox 360 et Xbox 360 est placé entre la carte mère et le lecteur de DVD.
La télécommande dispose d’un écran OLED et 3 boutons, il est connecté via USB à l’x360key carte mère. Les trois boutons sont utilisés pour contrôler et ajuster la x360key, début de jeux, etc