| Saudi investor in talks about investing millions in Twitter | | @gordonmacmillan | | 20 October 2011, 10:55AM |  A wealthy Saudi investor, with stakes in Citigroup and News Corporation, is in talks with Twitter about making an investment that could run into hundreds of millions of dollars.
Sky News’ Mark Kleinman says that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who chairs Kingdom Holding, is said to have spoken to one of Twitter's co-founders, who include Biz Stone and Evan Williams. | | | | Building online communities | | Dave Squires | | 20 October 2011, 8:50AM |  Human beings are communal by nature. If you ask a group of people about their interests and how they spend their free time, most will say hanging out with friends and family. So it's not surprising that we've seen digital communities prosper in the last decade. What is perhaps more surprising is the low number of brands that have really recognised this trend and effectively created a prospering community and ongoing brand experience.
| | | | Palestinian envoy to Canada sent home after hate tweet | | @gordonmacmillan | | 20 October 2011, 8:45AM |  I saw someone tweeting yesterday asking if anyone had ever retweeted a link without looking at what they were sharing. Hands up, I know I have done it and I’m sure many others do it to.
| | | | Twitter followers doesn't mean influence, says study | | Dan Leahul | | 20 October 2011, 8:24AM |  Contrary to popular belief, having a large number of Twitter followers doesn't mean squat in terms of mentions and retweets, according to the boffins at the Max Planck Institute.
A new study, titled "The Million Follower Fallacy," revealed data suggesting that hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers doesn't necessarily grant unquestioned influence. | | | | | | | The secret life of data [video] | | @gordonmacmillan | | 20 October 2011, 7:08AM |  A really interesting talk here given by Genevieve Bell, who leads a group of anthropologists at chip firm Intel, who was speaking at the the Web 2.0 Summit earlier this week and gave a great talk about what would happen if “data were a person”.
| | | | How we created our iPad app for kids | | Jerome Keane | | 20 October 2011, 7:05AM |  We created The Phantom Clickerist because we wanted to experiment with creating children's content specifically for the iPad with totally original characters and storyline with unique interactions fully integrated into each page. The result is, we hope, a beautifully illustrated, amazingly interactive experience for parents and children.
| | | | 43% of Londoners use social media to find a job [infographic] | | Polly Becker | | 19 October 2011, 10:47AM |  Great infographic here on how the efforts of Londoners to find a new job are changing via social media. It is no surprise that many of us are using social media to plot our next move. What’s interesting is that employers are so far behind and that recruitment teams are really still based in the sales culture of the past.
| | | | The week in search?my money is on Google Voice | | Stefan Hull | | 19 October 2011, 10:22AM |  After seeing two demonstrations of Google Voice Search in two weeks (one successful, one not so – presenter to phone: “Where is the beach?” Phone to presenter: “Where is the b****?”) it seems the battle has been joined between Google and Apple (Siri).
| | | | How social networks have got identity all wrong | | @gordonmacmillan | | 19 October 2011, 8:24AM |  Interesting video here from the presentation that 4chan founder Christopher Poole gave at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday. He argued that the big social networks (okay Facebook and Google) have got “identity wrong” in how they tie users to one identity on the web.
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