| | | | Facebook shares fall by almost 13% as they begin trading | | @gordonmacmillan | | 21 May 2012, 2:31PM |  A Reuters story published this morning before trading began was predicting “Facebook faces crucial week after modest debut”.
They weren’t kidding. This morning as trading began in New York shares in Facebook dropped by almost 13% and are still down by more than 12% having dropped from Facebook’s IPO price of $38 to just above $33.
| | | | Three days of video added to YouTube every minute | | Charlotte Henry | | 21 May 2012, 2:09PM | 
As YouTube celebrates it’s seventh birthday, The Verge have reported that a staggering seventy-two hours of video are uploaded to the the site every minute, a whole day’s worth of content more than a year ago. Owned by Google, YouTube has become embedded into the search process with videos hosted by it gaining prominence in the Google search algorithm, and therefore search results. Consequently, it has eliminated competition from the like of Vimeo, who offer an equally good, if not better, service, but do not have the groundswell in take up.
| | | | The bank of Facebook - is social banking on the way? | | Adam Fairbrother | | 21 May 2012, 11:56AM |  Remember how we scoffed at those hapless souls who put their bank details up on Facebook when the social network first became popular? It now looks as though this was a misguided but ultimately accurate premonition of a future development in social media.
| | | | | | | | | | If Content is King, Visual is Queen | | Richard Beattie | | 21 May 2012, 8:50AM |  In the quest for content that users of brand social assets will appreciate and interact with, imagery continues to surface as a key driver of engagement. All you need to do to understand this is consider your own social media behavior. While you may check your social streams multiple times a day, the odds are good that you fly through these "social checks" at quite a high rate of speed.
| | | | Accessibility kicks the arse of superiority - The Art of persuasive digital engagement | | Jake Dyer | | 21 May 2012, 8:10AM | 
Probably late in the day, but I recently stumbled across the quite brilliant Hailo taxi app co-founded by three cabbies in London. For those not familiar with this app, it allows you to select a black cab in the near vicinity, indicating how many minutes it will take to reach you and gives the taxi details to look out for when it arrives.
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