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Here are all of the posts tagged 'Weibo'.
People in China send about 1 SMS a day, thanks to WeChat
With the rise of popular messaging app WeChat in China, people are now only sending out about 1 SMS a day. New figures released by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology show that people in China send an average of 39.8 text messages per month – or about 1.3 a day. This is despite a total of 1.26 billion registered phone subscribers.
WeChat users in China can now transfer money to each other
In a minor iOS update, WeChat added the ability for users to transfer money to each other. This feature is limited to users in China who have tied a bank card to the app. The money transfer option is a small step in WeChat's aims to become a mobile wallet service. It already encompasses online payments, ecommerce, an online personal finance fund, and online taxi ordering. Micro-blogging site Sina Weibo is also set to roll out user-to-user money transfers next week.
LinkedIn adds Traditional Chinese language support
Extending greater focus on its China market, LinkedIn has added Traditional Chinese to the list of languages supported on its service. The China-specific site, Lingying.com, had previously only supported Simplified Chinese. The addition of Traditional Chinese (which is used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau) would help it gain traction among business professionals in the mainland.
Line and its family of apps have hit 1 billion downloads
As Line celebrates its third anniversary, it revealed that its ecosystem of 63 apps has seen a cumulative total of 1 billion downloads to date. 13 of the 63 apps (other than Line itself) have passed the 10 million download mark, with Line Camera surpassing 90 million downloads. Line's family of apps seek to become much more than just a messaging service, meetings "needs for communication, digital content, game, tools, media and more."
Facebook launches Slingshot
Facebook has launched Slingshot, its Snapchat rival, for iPhone and Android. They even did it on purpose this time. The app allows users to share photos and videos, to which they can add text. But there's a twist – you can only see what you've been sent if you share something in return.
Facebook tests auto play video for brand pages
You may have noticed auto play video ads in your Facebook News Feed, coming from brands such as Macy's and Chevrolet. Facebook is now testing an expansion of the feature, such that videos posted to brand pages will 'auto play' in the same way. The videos would not be restricted to the same 15-second time limit as the current ads.
Twitter increases ROI for TV ads
A recent study has concluded that TV campaigns supported by Twitter are more effective than TV alone. The most significant figure was that Twitter-supported campaigns produce a 50% higher ROI than TV-only campaigns. The study also noted that when using Twitter, brand awareness was 6.9% higher and that households showed a 4% increase in sales compared with TV alone.
GIFs come to Twitter
Twitter now supports GIFs uploaded natively through a variety of devices, on Twitter.com, iPhone/iPad and Android. They won't start automatically, but, as you can see below, all that's required is a quick click of a button. Naturally, brands are getting involved already. Here are a few examples:
Is there something on our cheek? http://t.co/MqyQYAFckr
— Wendy's (@Wendys) June 18, 2014
Shop our new arrivals in a #GIF! #SummerForever http://t.co/O4Vfcxn1v1 http://t.co/ROKXWvuCji
— Forever 21 (@Forever21) June 18, 2014
If anyone needs us, we'll be admiring all the GIFs in our timeline. This is truly the GIF that keeps on giving. http://t.co/xnCpgIs6QD
— E! Online (@eonline) June 18, 2014
Yahoo to run Tumblr ads on related sites Yahoo is going to start running Tumblr's Sponsored Post ads on its affiliated sites, including Yahoo News and Yahoo Beauty. Brands already involved include Lexus, Tide, Lipton and the Hunger Games.
LinkedIn launches Job Search
LinkedIn has released a standalone app for iPhone and iPad, called 'LinkedIn Job Search'. What it does should be clear from the title, but there is another feature that makes it distinctly different from LinkedIn: everything is completely private. It's US-only for now, but more markets are in the offing. Product manager, Daniel Ayele, said of the launch:
It can be hard to search for a job while you're at your desk, not to mention the potentially awkward conversation with your current boss. Our goal is to help make this process easier for you and to help you be discreet. Everything you do within the app will be completely private and not shared with your network.
Snapchat tests public sharing, adds new filters
Snapchat has announced a couple of changes in the last week. First of all, it's testing a Group Sharing feature, dubbed 'Our Story'. The feature will pull together all the snaps from a particular location, such as a concert, and share them publicly as one large, user-generated Story.
Secondly, the app has added custom filters for brands, in an attempt to entice more of them to use it. Here you can see Vice's 'Yes We Cannes' template.
Yelp adds direct messaging feature Yelp users can now contact businesses directly with questions and feedback. When they do so, the business will receive an email like the below. To respond, it simply needs to reply to the email. Yelp will also give an indication of how long it takes companies to respond, unless they choose to opt out.
The World Cup on social The USA seems to have taken to the World Cup, even if USMNT is no way to refer to a football team. The soccer love is showing on social, with tweets from big names, including LeBron James, Jimmy Fallon and some bloke called Barack.
11 on the field, more than 300 million cheering them on. #WorldCup #USMNT pic.twitter.com/vVjgAMXN0J
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 16, 2014
The US team's first game, a victory over Ghana, saw a high of 173,738 tweets. Delta Airlines wanted to get involved, but produced the World Cup's first 'Twitter fail' by illustrating Ghana using a giraffe, an animal that isn't native to the country. The brand ended up issuing an apology.
PHOTO: Delta Airlines thinks there are giraffes in Ghana. There aren't. http://t.co/9VsWsCfQSe pic.twitter.com/pGMJ6p0ljA
— theScore (@theScore) June 17, 2014
Other brands managed to avoid such problems when commenting on the USA vs. Portugal game yesterday. Portugal equalised in the dying seconds to leave the US needing a result against Germany – here are some of the tweets in response to the event.
FRY SCORE? Well played, #USMNT. Onward to game 3. #USAvPOR #McdOneGoal pic.twitter.com/r1sRTqKImk
— McDonald's (@McDonalds) June 23, 2014
#USA thought they were advancing, but that last-second equaliser from #POR means they'll have to wait. #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/5G1fpRXTgy
— Listerine Global (@ListerineGlobal) June 23, 2014
Tide creates Game of Thrones infographic SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't finished Game of Thrones, it might be best to give this story a miss. Tide has created an infographic showing all of the deaths in the most recent season, receiving over 1,000 RTs and favourites.
Season 4 was the messiest yet! We captured every stain-making moment in the ultimate #GoT infographic. #TideGetsItOut pic.twitter.com/9jmP7mdUsw
— Tide (@tide) June 16, 2014
New emoji are coming
Big news for everyone who finds it too difficult to express their thoughts and feelings using words. There are 250 new emoji coming, which should keep conversations interesting for at least 250 seconds. Easily our favourite is the 'middle finger' image, which can come in very useful on a Monday.
World Cup hits Weibo
Weibo's recently launched World Cup page is live and a huge success so far – over 22 million Chinese users followed the news on Weibo on the first day of FIFA World Cup 2014! In fact, in the first two hours of the event, there were already 83 million published posts, with 3 million Weibo posts coming out of China. With the topic #world cup# exceeding a billion post views in just a day, this could potentially set a whole new Weibo record by the end of the tournament.
Hike crosses the 20 million user mark
In just 18 months since its launch, Indian messenger app Hike announced yesterday that it now has over 20 million registered users. To commemorate the special occasion, it introduced a few new features such as 'hidden mode' and 'big file transfer'. The former protects private chats with a password, while the latter enables a transfer of up to 100 MB in any file format. This is a likely attempt to take on Whatsapp, which currently dominates the market with 50 million monthly active users.
Line to provide targeted ads
Japanese-based messenger app Line recently announced its partnership with US company Salesforce to offer a new service for companies to push targeted ads to the platform's 450 million global users. In Japan alone, there are currently over a hundred companies with official Line accounts. Similar to Facebook, companies will now be able to filter Line users by age, gender and geographical location. Aside from that, users' past purchases and browsing history can also be tracked to improve product recommendations.
Social ads are preferred by marketers
A survey of marketers by Millward Brown has found that most prefer social media ads to native and email ads. When asked which ad types met their company's digital branding objectives, the top answer, given by 51% of respondents, was 'social ads', followed by native (46%) and e-mail (36%). Social ads are also more common – 77% responded that they had used them, compared to 73% for email and 68% native.
Facebook accidentally launches Slingshot
Facebook has had Slingshot, its second attempt at a Snapchat rival, in the pipeline for a little while now. Last week, it accidentally launched the app, before pulling it from the app store and admitting its mistake.
Facebook adds tap and hold video sharing to Messenger
So we have to wait for Slingshot. In the meantime, Facebook Messenger has added another Snapchat feature – tap and hold video sharing. The update is already here for iPhone and is incoming for Android.
Facebook to target ads based on browsing history
Facebook has announced that it will use web browsing history for targeting ads on the platform. The platform will capture passive browsing information from various sites across the web, including, in future, those where its 'like' button is installed and, perhaps controversially, will not pay attention to the 'do not track' function in browsers. The network has also announced new privacy options, whereby users can click on an ad to see why it has been served to them.
A new method for sharing video ads on Twitter
Twitter is experimenting with a new way of sharing video ads, starting with Visa and adidas. When a user types in a particular hashtag (#visa for Visa, #allin for adidas) followed by a space, they will see a paper clip prompt. Clicking on it allows the user to easily share the ad with their followers.
Twitter to start showing weather-related adverts
Twitter has partnered with The Weather Company, so that advertisers can serve weather-specific ads on the platform. While this function has been available on The Weather Company's website for a while, the move will now tie in with real-time social marketing, as Curt Hecht, The Weather Company's chief global revenue officer, explained:
People experience the weather that don't use our properties, so this enables us to connect with them elsewhere. Our clients keep asking us to go off-property.
Twitter launches website remarketing tag
Twitter has launched a tag for website remarketing, allowing advertisers to target Promoted Tweets or Promoted Accounts to internet users who have already visited their website. Any advertiser who already has a tag for conversion tracking can use the new system, while new users can create one using the Twitter ads UI.
Facebook and Twitter add World Cup features
Facebook and Twitter have added specific features for the World Cup. The former has created a World Cup hub, featuring live scores, highlights and real-time posts from friends as well as relevant players and teams. There's also an interactive map showing the locations of top players' fans, while users can use the 'watching' feature to share specific matches.
Twitter is targeting users as soon as they sign up. New users will be able to choose which nation they're supporting and select from a set of pre-made supporter profile pictures and cover photos. Its answer to the Facebook 'World Cup hub' is the #WorldCup timeline, which similarly shows relevant posts from your network alongside others deemed relevant. Hashflags are back, too: typing a specific country's hashtag will bring up the national flag. Lovely stuff.
FIFA uses voting Twitter card
FIFA is using a Twitter card to display the results of its 'Man of the Match' votes after each game. It's a pretty nifty little card, which you can click here to see, though for some reason the winner is always Qatar. How odd.
Visa looks to social for World Cup campaigns
Visa is looking to get the most out of its World Cup sponsorship with a variety of campaigns across social. It has created the 'Teletransporter', in which fans can add a picture of themselves to football characters to create a sharable video, as well as a number of videos, one of which is included below. The brand has also employed ambassadors to create social content on its behalf, and will be ensuring that it supports all this with strong targeting and mobile optimisation.
Coca Cola creates World Cup selfie montage
Coca Cola created a photomosaic flag for last week's World Cup opening, made up of233,206 socially-sourced selfies from across the world, all draped across the field. Here's James Sommerville, VP-global design at Coca-Cola, talking about the campaign.
Hyundai develops World Cup microsite
Another World Cup sponsor, Hyundai, has created a Tumblr-powered microsite dubbed #BecauseFutbol. The page is set to contain 120 pieces of original art, which site visitors can remix or use to create new artwork and share on social media. Hyundai is supporting the activity with the below Times Square billboard.
Twitter used for presidential election campaigns in Indonesia
According to Twitter, Indonesia has nearly 20 million active users and Jakarta is the number one city in terms of the number of tweets generated (2.4% of all tweets come from Jakarta). Most of these Indonesian Twitter users are first time voters aged between 16 and 20. This demographic accounts for over one-third of 187 million eligible voters in 2014 elections. The youth population are always connected online and active on social media. In this election year alone, 42.1 million tweets related to the election were generated, up 36 percent compared to last year. Seeing an opportunity to tap into Twitter for presidential elections in July 9th, Peter Greenberger, director of political advertising for Twitter visited Indonesia to meet presidential candidates to talk about how they could use Twitter more effectively in their campaigns. Presidential contenders, Jakarta governor Joko Widodo and ex-general Prabowo Subianto have 1.5 million followers and 808,000 Twitter followers respectively. We will wait to see how Twitter plays a role to shape the political landscape in Indonesia.
Line to remove 20 gaming apps to focus on what's working
With 400 million registered users, Line is one of the largest messaging apps in the market. The app has indicated plans to remove one-third of gaming apps (20) from its platform. This move is geared towards focusing its resources on apps that are achieving greater success, with hopes to "further propel the service as a global gaming platform." Gaming revenue was $143 million for its most recent quarter, through 300 million downloads worldwide. This constitutes more than 60 percent of Line's total revenue. Therefore, it seems reasonable to halt those apps that are losing popularity. Line has promised a refund for users who have purchased the games that will cease operations. However, Line has yet to decide whether to roll out replacement gaming apps or continue with its remaining gaming apps.
Facebook responds to organic reach questions
Facebook has released a statement explaining its decreasing organic reach, offering two key reasons: the huge volume of content on the network (a user could potentially be shown up to 1,500 stories per log in) and an attempt to increase News Feed relevance. The piece argues that they are not trying to make more money from paid ads and that fans still have a function – social context (i.e. seeing that your friend 'likes' an advertised page) reportedly drives 50% more recall and 35% higher online sales lift. For information on how to combat the changes, have a look at our full article on the subject.
Search ads have no measurable effect
Research conducted in the US by eBay, in conjunction with Berkeley and Chicago universities, has concluded that search ads have 'no measurable benefit'. eBay customers were 'unaffected by the presence of paid search advertising', leading to questions about the medium's future.
Facebook adds interactive video components
Facebook has added new interactive components to its standard video ads to increase their efficiency for lower-budget advertisers. The offering now includes a 'video views' option, allowing a company to serve ads to users more likely to watch them, such as those who have watched similar content before. It's also now possible to add a call-to-action to a video, such as encouraging users to click through to a brand's website.
Facebook rolls out new page design worldwide
Facebook has launched its new page design worldwide, which increases the similarity between pages and personal profiles. Admins will see a prompt to 'take a tour' of the changes and can then choose whether or not to make the switch. Regardless of their choice, the change will happen automatically two weeks after the tour is taken.
Instagram adds new photo-editing features
Instagram has added ten new features and updated seven, aimed at increasing the scope for photo-editing in-app. The new options include 'Adjust, Brightness, Contrast, Warmth, Saturation, Highlights, Shadows, Vignette and Sharpen'.
LinkedIn updates paid profiles
LinkedIn has created a brand new image-centric profile layout, as you can see below. It's only available to paid users for now, though – we'll see if it's enough to entice people currently using the service for free.
Pinterest creates self-serve ad auction
Pinterest is following its initial ad launch by creating a self-serve auction, aimed at small-to-medium businesses. Payment will be taken on a cost-per-click basis. Don Faul, Pinterest's head of operations, explained how the auction works:
The ultimate price over time will be determined, as all auctions are, by how much competition and demand there is.
Tinder looks to increase interactions with 'Moments'
Tinder has launched 'Moments', which it hopes will enrich interactions within the app. Users can share a picture, or 'Moment', with all their matches, who will be given the option to 'like' it or not, based on the normal left/right swipe mechanic. Once someone likes your photo, you can start chatting about it. Photos will disappear after 24 hours, which we're sure nobody on Tinder will take advantage of in any way whatsoever.
Microsoft adds new apps to Xbox
Microsoft has announced that 45 new apps will be coming to Xbox One and Xbox 360before the end of the year. These include Vine and Twitter, the latter of which will be integrated into the console, such that users have the option to see tweets about TV content they're watching or trending shows.
Foursquare brings ads to Swarm
Foursquare is integrating adverts into its new app, Swarm, to be served to users after they check in. So far, the ads (shown below) are set to be used by a number of brands, including Pepsi, P&G, Hennessy, Volvo and Shell.
Hellmann's teaches cookery through WhatsApp
Mayonnaise brand, Hellmann's, has created an app for its Brazilian consumers named WhatsCook, a live recipe service that allows users to speak to experts or professional chefs using WhatsApp. The feature takes full advantage of the ability to send images and videos through the platform.
Listerine is creating a World Cup newsroom
Mouthwash brand, Listerine, is sponsoring the World Cup for the first time this year, creating a campaign dubbed "Power To Your Mouth". This will see a newsroom set up for the tournament, wherein the brand will create content for Facebook and Twitter based on events, and then bid for ads in real-time, based on which posts receive the most engagement.
World No Smoking Day Vines
Anti-smoking charity, Quit, created a campaign for World No Tobacco Day, with three different looping Vines, each displaying a different demographic group of smoker. Each one ends with the simple line "before this video starts again, another smoker will die".
Lego embraces social video Lego has made its first foray into the world of social video, producing a Vine and an Instagram video. Each focusses around a shy 'mixel' named Seismo.
IHG and Coca-Cola launch Instagram competition InterContinental Hotel Group and Coca-Cola have teamed up to produce a summer campaign, which asks entrants to pitch their most creative story ideas in a 15-second Instagram video for the chance to meet Hollywood actor, Josh Lucas. IHG will support the campaign with a set of video kiosks, explained in the below video by Adweek.
Jack Daniel's creates smartphone photo competition Jack Daniel's is asking customers to post pictures of their summer experiences through various social sites, in fitting with a set of weekly challenges. Two prizes will be dished out each week, one chosen by judges and the other by a public vote. The campaign looks to promote Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey, aimed at a younger audience than its core product. Asos celebrates an #EpicSummer with Mastercard Asos and Mastercard have joined forces to create a campaign dubbed #EpicSummer, which asks twenty-somethings to share pictures on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag. Prizes include concert tickets and an Asos shopping spree.
Newcastle Brown Ale paying for followers Newcastle Brown Ale is continuing its 'No Bollocks' attitude with a campaign that offers $1 to the first 50,000 people to follow the brand on Twitter. Why? Well, why "endure the unsolicited marketing of other beer brands for free when you can endure Newcastle's unsolicited marketing and get paid?"
Ben & Jerry's offers ice cream for tweets Ben & Jerry's, the ice cream brand, went 'cruising' around the streets of Washington D.C. last week, offering free ice cream. All residents had to do was tweet the brand, telling them where they'd like the truck to stop.
Oh hey #DC! You ready for something sweet? #CoreTour is headed your way, so let's get those tweet requests rolling! pic.twitter.com/e2RzlU40ya
— Ben & Jerry's Truck (@BenJerrysTruck) May 29, 2014
Bashar Al-Assad promotes Facebook posts
Promoted posts from Syria's president, Bashar Al-Assad, were spotted on Facebook last week. A number of people objected, including The Syria Campaign, which has demanded the network donate any money it received from the posts to Syrian children. The organisation has created the below replica of Facebook to direct people to a petition.
The CIA launches on social
In a story that may or may not be linked to the above, the CIA has launched accounts on Facebook and Twitter. It's taken a humorous approach, causing something of a Twitter frenzy – the account has amassed almost 600,000 followers already.
We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014
Chinese microblogging platform Weibo raked in a total of $67.5 million in revenues in Q1, which is a 161% increase from a year ago. Despite this, the social network made a net loss of $47.4 million in the same quarter. The company also reported a growth in users to 143.8 million monthly active users and an average of 66.6 million daily active users. Weibo made its debut on the NASDAQ stock market in April.
Kakao to merge with Daum
A merger has been announced between Kakao Corporation, the company behind South Korean messaging app KakaoTalk, and Daum Communications, the country's second largest web portal. Through this merger, Kakao and Daum will be better equipped to compete with rivals. The reverse takeover with Daum, which is a listed company, will also allow Kakao Corporation to get on South Korea's KOSDAQ stock market as early as October, without having to go through the usual IPO processes. The merged company will be called Daum Kakao and is valued at 3 trillion won (S$3.7 billion).
Twitter to hit nearly 400m users by 2018
Research done by eMarketer forecasts that the total number of Twitter users worldwide is set to hit nearly 400m by 2018. In addition, the marketing research firm forecasted that over 40% of those users would come from the Asia Pacific region. By the end of this year, eMarketer also expects India and Indonesia to see more than a 50% growth in users, making them the third and fourth largest Twitter populations in the world.
Facebook can automatically identify music and TV
For the last year, Facebook users have been able to share how they're 'feeling', or what they're 'watching' or 'listening to'. The network has now expanded the feature, allowing iPhone, iPad or Android microphones to automatically identify music and TV programmes, which can be shared as updates using the normal 'listening to' or 'watching' format. Facebook has promised not to retain any data from the system, which is being rolled out to US users in the coming weeks.
Facebook looking to rival online dating sites
Facebook is testing an 'Ask' button, which allows one user to enquire into another's relationship status. Mashable pointed out the button's huge potential and its significance for the online dating world; with such a huge user base, Facebook could quite easily become a rival to the likes of eHarmony and match.com. The Guardian, however, was much less positive, discussing the likelihood of unnecessary pestering and oversharing.
Facebook rolls out 'I'm a Voter' button
During the Indian elections in May, over 4 million Facebook users clicked on a new 'I'm a Voter' button. As a result, Facebook is expanding the feature to the EU, Colombia, South Korea, Indonesia, New Zealand and Brazil. It's already seen success in America, too, where its launch during the 2010 mid-term elections was credited with mobilising 340,000 extra voters.
Facebook changes privacy settings
Facebook has responded to pressure and changed its default privacy settings. Those joining from Thursday will now automatically share updates with only 'friends and family', rather than the whole public. The change won't affect current users, who will be prompted to perform a 'privacy check up'.
Nielsen Twitter TV Rating to provide demographics
Nielsen's Twitter TV Rating service now includes demographic information on tweet authors. So far, the data collected varies hugely between programmes: sport skews 79% male, reality 65% female. The youngest audience counted 98% of its members under 35, while the oldest saw 85% over 35.
Pinterest adds third party analytics
Pinterest is launching a new analytics API that will allow select partners, such as Salesforce and Hootsuite, to offer a range of Pinterest business insights. The move will not affect Pinterest's own in built analytics tool.
adidas allows customers to 'Instagramize' shoes
adidas is allowing buyers of its ZX Flux trainers to customise them with their favourite Instagram photos. The process, referred to as 'Instagramizing', is shown in the below update from the brand.
Budweiser's social efforts for the World Cup
Budweiser is ramping up its social efforts as official beer to the 2014 World Cup. It's launching a 'Rise as One' microsite to act as a hub for various video and photo content and will also ask fans to vote for their man of the match on Twitter after each game. On site in Rio, there will be a branded hotel, which is set to include an Instagram booth and Facebook studio.
Save The Children launches #Vlog4Good
Save The Children is looking for a new face for its YouTube channel, and is planning to find them through social. Applicants will be given one minute to explain, on video, why they should win the 12 month paid position, in which they'll be expected to 'reinvent' the charity's editorial approach for the platform.
We Are Social create social viewer for STA Travel
We Are Social has created a campaign for STA Travel, encouraging young Australians to travel domestically. The brand will host a social version of a '3d viewer', allowing users to create their own reel from influencers' Instagram photos and develop a personalised Australian experience.
Asos upset Jodie Marsh with 'man' Twitter comment
Online fashion retailer, Asos, upset glamour star turned bodybuilder, Jodie Marsh last week, when they used her image to refer to models who 'look like a man'.
Marsh took to Twitter to voice her anger, referring to the company as 'bullies'. As a result, Asos has donated £10,000 to an anti-bullying charity and apologised to Marsh. RetailWeek analysed what the 'fail' means for brands, including advice by We Are Social's own Lisa Hardy to ensure that the person in charge of responding on Twitter is adequately experienced for the role.
CABCY video gets shorter as it's shared
Singapore's 'Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth' has created a social video with a real sharing incentive. The video, originally 100 seconds long, shows a child in distress. It gets shorter and shorter each time it is shared on Facebook, and is accompanied by the tagline 'Share it to End it'.
Facebook passes 100m users in India
India is now Facebook's second largest national market (after the US), as the network passed 100 million users there. It expects further rapid growth as it increases its mobile focus in a country where eight in 10 users are mobile.
Yelp launches in Japan, its second market in Asia
Community-sourced restaurant review site Yelp has formally launched in Japan. This is its second entry into Asia, after Singapore in 2012, and the 26th country to receive Yelp. Opening in Japan comes with its own unique set of hurdles, such as the handling of the character set, as well as competing against popular review site Tabelog.
Just 5% of users contribute to 90% of all Weibo posts
According to a study, Chinese microblogging platform Weibo was found to have a sizeable content gap between its users. Only 10 million users post original content, while the other two hundred million other users are made up of spam or empty accounts, or users who just repost others' content. Reasons for the small percentage could be due to the large amount of spam accounts, or competitors such as WeChat gaining popularity in China.
Xiaomi's social media strategy drives fan loyalty
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has a fiercely loyal fanbase, and a lot of this lies in the way it engages its fans and customers with social media. Xiaomi uses social media in several ways – to drum up excitement about its flash sales, as well as engaging fans and customers in an informal and playful manner, much like how friends speak to each other. Its recent Mi Fan Festival saw 1.3 million handsets sold across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, raking in CNY1.5 billion (SGD302 million).
Facebook and YouTube launch unique add-ons for India Elections 2014
For the 16th Lok Sabha Elections, Facebook has launched a 'I'm a Voter' button for its users in India, which allows users to post their voting stories on their timeline, sharing with friends that they are voting in this election. YouTube has also launched a India Elections 2014 page, which has garnered over a thousand subscribers. The page features a curated list of videos, aimed at providing a one-stop source of news on the elections.
Most social networks are predominantly mobile
The 2014 US Digital Future in Focus Report has been released, with interesting figures about the growth of mobile and social. Of major social networks, only two (Tumblr and LinkedIn) are predominantly desktop (among US users aged 18 and up).
Snapchat, Vine and Instagram are, as expected, the most 'mobile-first' social networks, each seeing almost all of their traffic from non-desktop devices. The three sites have grown their unique visitors figures significantly between February and December 2013 – Instagram by 43%, Vine by 515% and Snapchat by 234%.
Most social content is shared from mobile
It's not just user growth where mobile is steaming ahead, but also the volume of shared content. Of everything shared to social networks in Q1 2014, 52% came from a mobile device, compared with 48% from desktop. This resulted from much stronger volume growth on mobile: 28% against desktop's 11%.
Photos are most popular Facebook content for brands
Despite Facebook pushing brands to use links, it's clear that photo posts remain the most popular content type for brands on the network. Analysis of over 30,000 brand posts found that 75% were photo posts, followed by just 10% including a link.
This is perhaps no wonder, when we look at the most engaging content types: photo posts make up 87% of the top 10% of branded content.
Facebook to remove messenger from mobile app
In an attempt to keep up with standalone messaging apps, Facebook is planning toremove the 'Messenger' function in its main mobile app, forcing users to either download the standalone app or lose the service entirely.
Facebook launches new ads as prices increase
As brand pages' organic reach has dropped throughout Q1, Facebook ad prices have increased by 10%. This news comes as Facebook has announced a new format for ads in the right hand bar; the network has claimed that these will increase engagement and allow brands to use the same image for News Feed and right-hand bar ads.
Facebook looks to reduce News Feed spam
Facebook is making some changes to its News Feed algorithm that will decrease the reach of certain types of content, each of which is considered 'spammy'. The initial targets of these changes are:
1. Pages that repeatedly post images asking for likes, comments and shares
2. Frequently-circulated content that users have already seen
3. Spammy links that bring users to pages full of ads
Facebook has looked to reassure pages that this is unlikely to negatively affect their reach; it states that most publishers are not posting 'spam' and should instead expect to see their reach increase slightly.
Facebook is updating privacy settings
Facebook is attempting to make its privacy options clearer to users with a series of tests. As can be seen below, the iOS app will include details of who can see any post above the publishing box (left), while desktop users will notice a change to the drop down menu (right).
There will also be pop-up messages for users who haven't updated their preferences in a while, straight from the mouth of the privacy dinosaur.
Twitter renovates profiles
It's all change in the world of Twitter this week, as the platform announced a complete overhaul of users' profiles on desktop. Changes include a larger profile picture, customisable header, and the ability to pin a particular tweet to the top of your profile (though it's worth noting that this will only be available for free to certain high-profile users or paying accounts). A user's more engaging tweets will now appear larger on their profile, too. The new style, which is in the process of being rolled out, can be seen here:
Some brands have already begun using the new design. The below, for example, displays Skype's videos – users can now filter tweets to see just photos or videos.
The move is being seen as part of a larger attempt to make the network more accessible for the less tech-savvy among us; technical 'jargon' like RT and @replies may be at threat, while the network looks to concentrate more on video/images and add emoji functionality. Users are beginning to get notifications on Twitter.com, too, which are fully customisable; anyone can choose what actions they get notified about. All of this, along with the design of the above profiles, has led to a number of comparisons with Facebook and rumours of a 'land grab'. Watch this space.
Twitter adds 15 new ad types
Twitter will also be ramping up their ad offering, with news that they're planning 15 new types of ad, such an 'app-install unit'. This news comes at a similar time to figures that suggest Twitter's ads receive a higher click-through rate than Facebook's. Advertisers still spend a lot more on Facebook advertising, as we can see here:
Moreover, Facebook ads reach much further than their Twitter equivalents. Twitter may get higher click-through rates, but Facebook still earns a much higher volume of clicks and impressions.
LinkedIn removes 'Products & Services' tab
LinkedIn has today removed the 'Products & Services' tab from company pages. The network has proposed two different ways around this for brands: they can discuss their offerings in either company updates or the 'showcase' pages that LinkedIn has designed for this purpose.
Disqus introduces 'Sponsored Comments'
Disqus, the commenting platform used by many popular blogs (including this one), has this week launched a native ad product, known as 'Sponsored Comments'. It launched the new unit in a blog post, in which it looked to reassure users that it would maintain the quality of their experience. The adverts will appear as follows:
Unilever's multi-brand YouTube channel
Unilever is launching a multi-brand YouTube channel, named 'All Things Hair'. Brands including Toni & Guy, Dove and VO5 will all host content on the channel, which is taking much of its content from famous video bloggers.
Oreo brings Snack Hacks to online video
Oreo has launched a series of web videos dubbed 'Snack Hacks', which showcase unusual ways of eating the snack. After asking Twitter followers to discuss their favourite #OreoSnackHacks, the brand has since taken the campaign to the next level and produced content of its own. One example, featuring celebrity chef Roy Choi, is presented in this video.
Peter Griffin is now on Instagram
American cartoon, 'Family Guy', has created an Instagram account for its protagonist, Peter Griffin, to drive downloads of a new mobile game based on the series.
WWF creates Snapchat campaign
The World Wildlife Fund is using a Snapchat campaign to raise awareness about endangered species. Dubbed #LastSelfie, the campaign plays on the trend for a constant stream of self-taken photographs on the platform.


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AMD composite battalion: Reset, train, ready and deploy.
Many of us who joined the Army in the last decade of the Cold War often are impressed by the extraordinary accomplishments of our young Soldiers and junior officers in today's Army. Soldiers joining the Army in time of war or proudly reenlisting after multiple tours in Iraq or Afghanistan are doing much more and at a faster pace than we ever did.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
As soon as a unit returns from a deployment, it begins the process all over again in the "Reset Phase" of the Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN)-like model. This is also the phase in which the bulk of the Army's transformation takes place while the friction of the War on Terrorism (WOT) continues to loom.
This article discusses how the 5th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery (5-52 ADA), 11th ADA Brigade, Fort Bliss, Texas, is working through these challenges and began the "process of deploying" on the first day of Reset.
Fieldings and Training. In November 2006, 5-52 ADA was a Patriot Capabilities (PAC)-3 pure battalion that rotated four batteries to the Korean theater of operations and, within 30 days, had received four returning batteries. The battalion entered the Reset Phase after it was designated the ADA test battalion and directed to convert into a composite air and missile defense (AMD) battalion (two Patriot batteries and one Avenger battery) with the battalion scheduled to deploy to the Central Command (CENTCOM) theater in early 2008.
The battalion had several key tasks to accomplish within its Reset Phase. These tasks include fielding the pre-deployment version of Deployment Build-6 (PDB-6) software and equipment upgrades; supporting PDB-6.5 software testing; completing new equipment training (NET); standing up an Avenger battery and AMD support capabilities in the headquarters and maintenance unit; certifying ADA crews and executing gunnery; completing all Forces Command (FORSCOM) annual training requirements; and deploying to Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, to participate in a capstone joint exercise to validate lessons learned sponsored by the Marine Air Weapons and Tactics Squadron in Yuma. Once these key tasks are accomplished, the battalion will be a well-trained AMD unit and ready for deployment.
5-52 ADA's training plan would keep any good unit busy for a year in peacetime. However, for 5-52 ADA, like all Army units in Reset, the challenges are exacerbated by the fact that the Army is supporting WOT.
Resourcing Challenges. The resource challenges of war impact resetting units on at least three important levels. First, there are some general Army-wide resource challenges that greatly affect a resetting unit's ability to train and sustain. For example, ADA units, mostly manned by Soldiers in the ADA's Career Management Field 14 (CMF 14) Military Occupational Specialties (MOS), require support from repairmen in CMF 94 and generator mechanics in CMF 63 to maintain their equipment in a mission-capable status. Soldiers in these low-density MOS are in high demand and are assigned Armywide based on deployment fielding categories.
This friction also gives rise to equipment shortages for high-demand items, such as .50 cal machine guns that have been pulled from resetting units to support the training of deploying Soldiers and units.
Second, as deployed and deploying units are a higher priority for resources, there is friction generated by the requirement of a unit in Reset to sustain like units. Specifically for 5-52 ADA, this means supporting the deploying or already deployed Patriot units by providing crews, individual experts and trainers, as required. In return, there is a migration of non-deployable Soldiers to a battalion in Reset from those units preparing to deploy.
And third, requirements to sustain the community within which resetting units operate also generate friction. Like all units in Reset across all Army's installations, 5-52 ADA inherits a portion of its deployed sister battalions' details, such as Fort Bliss Red Cycle taskings. These include tasks such as supporting the NCO Academy or meeting the branch's testing requirements. Some additional details are intense because we are at war, details such as casualty notification and assistance. 5-52 ADA also provides limited administrative functions to support a separate transportation company and a signal company and serves as the rear detachment for the 4th Squadron, 1 st Cavalry (4-1 Cav) and a sister Patriot battalion.
Accomplishing these taskings and meeting resourcing challenges while simultaneously building combat power is a resetting unit's temporary "lot in life." But during Reset, it is essential that a unit start preparing for deployment immediately.
Meeting the Challenges. The 5-52 ADA's first order of business was to reconstruct its ADA crews with new personnel. There was a temptation to keep some experienced crews together so the unit status report looked somewhat acceptable in the short term. But the Soldiers and officers on those crews were the easiest to certify and most often were the ones with the least longevity in the unit.
From the start of Reset, the battalion received 25 percent fewer Soldiers back from Korea than it deployed, many within months of ending their terms of service. This shortage was compounded by the fact that most of the returning lieutenants on the ADA crews would soon make captain and attend their career courses. It was important to focus the limited time and training resources to assemble, train, and certify crews that have Soldiers and officers with the most longevity--in this case, the youngest and most inexperienced.
At the same time, we manned four Patriot batteries in a sequential priority from A Battery through D Battery. The Soldiers with the most longevity were weighted towards A Battery, with experience being used as the secondary criterion, (18-months longevity was most important, followed closely by experience). However, even in A Battery, no crew remained intact from Korea.
D Battery's crews were initially incomplete and had the greatest concentration of Soldiers and officers assigned directly from initial military training. As new officers and Soldiers right out of the officer basic course (OBC) or advanced individual training (AIT) began to report in the months following the Korean rotation, those Soldiers filled the remaining crews in the lower priority batteries.
Manning the batteries in this manner allowed 5-52 ADA to use training resources on one battery at a time. For the most part, A Battery was exempt from post Red Cycle tasks for the first several weeks and provided the resources necessary for the battalion to certify crews and complete gunnery.
In contrast, D Battery initially supported daily funeral details, as many as 61 funerals in the first month of Red Cycle. D Battery was also responsible for running more than its "fair share" of battalion weapons qualification ranges.
As crews qualified, 5-52 ADA lifted and shifted resources sequentially through the Patriot batteries. The battalion's strategy paid immediate dividends as the battalion was able to complete individual weapons qualifications and certify its launcher crews and a few of its fire control crews before all the Patriot equipment was dedicated to the PDB-6 upgrades that began in April.
5-52 ADA completed PDB-6 fielding in June. The battalion's enhanced capabilities improve its command and control and effectiveness in the "joint kill chain" in which it will operate. These capabilities include enhanced line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight communications, more robust friendly protect functions and reduced spurious signals.
With some of its equipment unavailable during this fielding, 5-52 ADA continued to pursue ADA crew training requirements by volunteering to test a new Patriot Fire Control simulator. This contributed to the unit's ability to certify additional crews immediately upon receiving their equipment and completing NET. By late June, A Battery had 100 percent of its crews certified and the remaining 5-52 ADA batteries had all of their launchers and at least their primary fire control crews certified. The battalion will certify many of its remaining fire control crews in August with all crews certified by October.
Instead of watching qualified crews break apart in the summer as Soldiers leave the service and lieutenants are promoted and sent-off to their follow-on career courses, every crew that 5-52 ADA certifies is expected to remain in the unit until its deployment. Obviously, crews will need to recertify every six months until the deployment, but recertification just before deploying will be far easier than building new crews. The mission readiness exercise (MRE) should be easy with crews having completed gunnery multiple times.
This expectation would not have been possible had the battalion been overly concerned about an anemic unit status report for the first six months of Reset. This is how ARFORGEN is intended to work.
As the Patriot batteries set out to grow their combat power, the battalion simultaneously began executing its transformation. In November 2006, 5-52 ADA began not only resetting its Patriot units, but also transforming into an AMD battalion. A new Avenger battery stood up the same week all Patriot battery commanders assumed command.
A less obvious change was the growth in the maintenance company and headquarters battery that will support commanding and controlling the additional capabilities. Even this process is different than what many Soldiers of previous decades experienced. In the 1990s when ADA fielded Avengers to divisional ADA units, the respective project managers "packaged" new systems with all the support equipment for delivery to the units. The equipment was laid-out for the purpose of inventory. At one time, all in the chain of command--from the commander down to the user--inventoried and signed for equipment in the presence of a project manager, establishing an accurate and unquestionable chain of custody, a hand receipt holder's "dream."
This is not the case with the stand-up of 5-52 ADA's Avenger battery. Equipment continues arriving from all over the Army, and the Soldiers report in small batches. The Avenger systems were the first to arrive. But having been moved from one post to another, basic issue items were not included in the shipment, either from loss or incomplete shipping. Some items have trickled into the battery, such as individual weapons. The battery still does not know when other items, such as trucks, will arrive because the battalion is in Reset Phase and a low-priority fill among Army units.
The battery also must procure common table of allowance items not fielded with the Avengers, such as arms racks, holsters and command posts. And because the arrival of Soldiers to the unit was not synchronized with the arrival of equipment, more time was required initially to complete inventories and hand receipt procedures as property passed through more individuals before settling in the hands of the end user.
Despite the challenges, the battalion's battery commanders and other leaders adapt and "attack" missions and training requirements based on the people and equipment on hand. When weapons systems arrive at the Avenger battery, Soldiers begin qualifying on them. When vehicles arrive, Soldiers perform technical inspections and order the required parts.
The Soldiers continually adjust as their situation evolves. For example, the NET for the Forward Area Air Defense (FAAD) was postponed from May until November. This was because the key communications equipment, the battalion's fire coordination center, and 50 percent of its MOS 14J (ADA Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence [[C.sup.4]I] Enhanced Operators/Maintainers) would not be present until fall.
The battalion's maintenance company and headquarters battery Soldiers have the greatest dwell time and endure the brunt of the Soldier migration to brigade combat teams (BCTs) and directly to theater. For these units, the battalion takes special measures. Soldiers from line units trained to operate Patriot launchers temporarily serve on field maintenance teams. Officers and senior NCOs seamlessly "play musical chairs" with additional duties as officers are assigned external missions.
5-52 ADA is on track for a successful rotation to weapons training instruction (WTI) at Yuma Proving Ground and subsequent PDB-6.5 software testing at the end of the year.
5-52 ADA will be prepared to deploy and fight not only because its Soldiers will be trained fully to employ the latest generation of AMD technology, but also because our Soldiers are flexible enough to handle anything our enemies can throw at them. Young leaders accomplish ever-changing missions in a far less predictable environment, plugging along with equipment and personnel shortages as necessary. They are a living testament to our collective assertion that "This Army will bend, but never break."
Lieutenant Colonel Russell E. Bodine, Air Defense Artillery (ADA), is the Commander of the 5th Battalion, 52nd ADA (5-52 ADA), 11th ADA Brigade, at Fort Bliss, Texas. In his previous position he was the Speechwriter for the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army at the Pentagon. During Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) I, he served as the Operations Officer for Task Force Iron Fist as part of the 32nd Air and Missile Defense Command. He commanded C Battery, 3-4 ADA, 82nd Airborne Division, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He holds two master's degrees, including a Master in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
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I love the containers I put together this year. I did them all with sweet potato vine, fuschia and purple wave petunias. Not only do I love them, I also hate to see them go to waste and have to re- buy them next spring. All of these flowers are annuals in micHigan. I have an idea and wondered if it will work. Could I just put all the containers as is in the garage which is not heated, andbring them out in the spring? I'm just wondering if that would protect them from the bitter Michigan winters and trick them into thinking we live in a different zone. |
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It depends on what they are. I've done it with Black and Blue salvia that was in a pot, and be darned it did sprout the following spring. I know a lot of people take cuttings from sweet potato vine, that might be easier than saving the whole plants. Not sure about the others. I've been over-wintering my annual geraniums for many years; its easy to do, you can do a board search for the how-tos. The nice thing about over-wintering the annuals is they get HUGE over the years, I've never actually seen singular geraniums for sale that are as large as some of the ones I have. There are occasional losses, though, but hey why not try? You've got nothing to lose. |
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i dont get the H in micHigan??? where are you in MI??? though an attached garage might be z7 or 8 during a sunny winter day .... it does not remain such at night ... i doubt any of them will make it ... now.. next year... if you were to plant perennials in your pots.. you might be onto something ... i think of fuscia and SPV as nearly tropical ... and MI in winter isnt even close ... and in 35 years in MI gardens.. i have never had a petunia winter over .... and in fact.. they are so spent by Oct... i probably wouldnt want to look at them ... all that said.. give it a go ... whats to lose ... ken in adrian mi |
Sweet potatoes are perennials and can be overwintered as tubers. Fuchsias are not only perennial, they are also shrubs and can easily be overwintered dormant as long as you have a frost free but cool storage place. Allow them to experience one almost freezing day. The leaves will fall and then they can by kept dryish all through the winter. Trim them in the spring and water to bring them back to life. These plants are not annuals. They are perennials in their natural range but they cannot take cold weather. There is no point trying to overwinter true annuals as their life cycle is meant to be over in one year. If you leave the plants in their containers you would need to replenish a proportion of the growing medium in the spring and keep feeding regularly. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Overwintering fuchsias.
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Understanding the real botanical nature of the plants we're interested in overwintering helps know if it's worth it or not. None of the plants mentioned by twittl or mxk3 are annuals. Even if they are used AS an annual by most people, that doesn't change their true nature. Perennials are easier to overwinter, if you so desire. |
Try the petunias. There is a forum on winter sowing that can help. I didn't winter sow my petunias. I just put the seed pods in the container as they developed. Crushed the stems and tossed them in at the end of the season. They have rebloomed for the 3rd year. Even after that brutal winter in 2013. |
mzdee, did you keep those pots in the garage over the winter or take them inside your house? pat |
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