August 2010 - AndreaVascellari.com

@Twitter: You are making me think…

Ok, you know those moments in which everything should be up and running but it’s not?

For example, I just checked my twitter profile, @vascellari, and I noticed that my followers and the community of people I’m connected with…well they are both down to zero.

This wouldn’t have been a problem if it would have happened just to me and not to the account of my company too @itive (especially now that we just launched our ‘new itive‘…).

In cases like this when you see your entire social capital disappear there’s just one thing to do: Relax…and think positive.

(deep breath)

Ok…so…

It’s not a big deal. I know (hope) that my community will come back (@twitter: right?) 🙂
Something is technically wrong! Well nobody is perfect 🙂
It’s a Big Job to keep a company like Twitter running 🙂
With all that must be done…Maybe this is just a stressful period for the Twitter team 🙂
Or maybe they ran out of money and can’t buy new servers or something? 🙂
If money is what they need they could convince more people to get a premium account on which they guarantee a stable service. Oops…I forgot there’s no such option yet. Well let’s keep thinking positive maybe they are about to add it 🙂
Yes.. it’s probably because they are just busy… I’d like to see you trying to understand why only 8% of US-based smartphone users access Twitter from their devices 🙂
I just hope they won’t loseWeight Exercise their drive because someone said that email is dominating the mobile web or because teenagers prefer texting… Com’on Twitter! 🙂

Hey what about you and the experience you are having using Twitter? Have something to share?

Andrea

UPDATE: See? Thinking positive helps…My Following/Followers are back! 🙂

[Communications Report] for August 19th 2010 – AndreaVascellari.com

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Only 8% Of US Smartphone Users Use Twitter According To New comScore Data | Mobile Marketing Watch – ComScore released interesting data indicating that only 8% of US-based smartphone users access Twitter from their devices, somewhat contradicting the notion that Twitter is a primarily mobile-centric service.
Asia Pacific Digital Brand Index (DBI) – One Year On | Edelman Digital – 12 months of online conversation about major technology brands covering: 8 million posts, representing the perspectives of millions of netizens, talking about 350 technology brands, housed in 4,000 regional online channels, across eight Asian markets.
Gap is Offering a 25% Discount for Foursquare, Facebook, & Twitter Users – Do you have Foursquare on your smartphone, or are you a member of Facebook or Twitter? If so, you may just be in luck today if you like shopping at the Gap.
Email Dominates Mobile Web Time – eMarketer – Email, portals stay ahead of social networking—at least on mobile devices.
The Rise of Text Messaging [INFOGRAPHIC] – The following infographic illustrates the trends and averages for texting in the United States and around the world.
Paper.li – read Twitter as a daily newspaper – Organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag.
Cookies and Chemo | Roger Smith Life – Think, respect and follow http://twitter.com/CookiesandChemo
Facebook Officially Announces Facebook Live – Live streaming content from Facebook on your own Facebook Page, the company is providing a tool for embedding the application within Page tabs.
Wowd Launches Social Search App For Facebook – This is good if you need some Facebook filtering.
Why Google Wave’s demise is good news for Facebook – Google this week abandoned “Wave,” its much-hyped social collaboration tool. Wave was perhaps the prototypical Google product: Technically advanced, incredibly ambitious and near-impossible to use.
Plancast – The easiest way to share events and other real-life activities with friends – The easiest way to share events and other real-life activities with friends.

The New itive.net

Via itive.net – “The New itive.net“

“This is a new era. We are moving in an environment that is becoming increasingly competitive at a speed we have never seen before. Whether you’re a small-mid size entrepreneur, public institution, a corporation or government, we have invested our knowledge, experience, competence–heart and soul–to help you take things to the next level.

We aimed for the top by adding new, highly specialized and skilled members to our team.
We optimized the internal processing and project management organization from A to Z.
We built a methodical framework to create an organized path which allows our clients to successfully achieve their objectives.
We launched a brand new website taking care of each and every detail in order to turn our clients’ experience into something unique, cutting-edge and memorable.
We spent the last 6 month re-structuring our entire company in order to provide the best service for our clients…
And because of the fast-paced and ever-changing nature of our business, we always have our eyes and ears open for the latest updates, so that we can keep improving our services and ensure that our clients will stay fully satisfied now and many years down the road.

Itive is more competitive and stronger than ever before.

Find out more about our latest updates and our services for existing and new clients at itive.net.
We hope to see you there!“

Privacy

This is a video (below) that I directed, shot and edited for YouTube Play, a collaboration between YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum to unearth and showcase the very best creative videos from around the world. Leah D’Emilio worked together with me as producer adding her insights and helping me turn the concept I wanted to express into something magic.

The video is called Privacy.

Social media is one of the primary vehicles through which we interact with society. This is redefining the concept of privacy. My intention is to discuss how privacy is being redefined using the following 3 aspects of private self:

Watching others/sharing our physical self through video.
Written thoughts on personal profiles.
Private conversations in public spaces.

– With a Panasonic GF1 I recorded various angles of a woman’s body as she laid in a dimly lit room. It is a test of the viewer’s perception as to which part of the body she is being shown and from which perspective. She symbolizes our desire to watch others and how we become “naked” as we expose our lives online.

– The text scrolling along the bottom of the screen are real updates written by random facebook users who have kept their profiles public and therefore searchable on youropenbook.org. Using key search terms I was able to find very personal written statements from complete strangers who would probably never say what they wrote in public, yet their thoughts are available for public search.

– Finally, the third element of “Privacy” is the audio recording of a public space in New York City. The audio element of this project reflects how anyone can listen in on private conversation in the “real world”, paralleling the idea that anyone can “listen in on” what would be considered “private conversation” in the virtual world.

In this project the video’s role is elevated as the primary vehicle bringing these aspects together to discuss the future definition of privacy.

“Privacy” will be examined by a jury of experts that will decide which works will be presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on October 21, 2010 with simultaneous presentations at the Guggenheim museums in Berlin, Bilbao, and Venice. The selected videos will be on view to the public from October 22 through 24 in New York and on the YouTube Play channel.

I’m really interested in hearing your thoughts on “Privacy“. Feel free to share them here on my blog, via twitter @vascellari, on my Facebook profile or on my Facebook Page.

Andrea