Available as a pay-as-you-go licence the feedback and blog buzz is impressive and if you work on a freelance or contract basis this little application should pay dividends.

RescueTime Time Tracking Overview from Tony Wright on Vimeo.

                        

This presentation is an amalgam of facts, figures and observations collated from a multitude of sources and presented in a clean and engaging style. (OK – it’s Powerpoint but Powerpoint done well for a change.) A very useful primer for clients and staff .

                        

A useful introduction illustrating how GM undertook the deployment of their social media engagement. The emphasis on internal communications, staff training and ‘who does what’ illustrates the demands made on an organisation’s resources. GM use their agency partners as consultancy support but use their own staff as the customer facing representatives of the company.

HOW TO: Implement a Social Media Business Strategy.

                        

Skype has teamed up with five very different artists around the world who will turn your message into a piece of art. There’s a ‘masked messenger in Tokyo, a tree artist (carves messages in wood), a troupe of street performers and two avant garde artists who can be Skyped with your message – the lucky ones are then transformed by the artists and the process videoed and shown on the mobile Skype Outside website.

                        

Google Maps.

                        

Demonstration from Macworld 2010 which uses the motion sensor capability of the iPhone to steer a R/C quadricopter.

The Parrot AR.Drone

                        

Tubemogul promotes itself as a single point of video content distribution to multiple video sharing sites.  A major feature of the service is the analytics package that it supports. Distribution is limited to 5 deployments per month – one video to 5 sites counts as 5 deployments. Storage capacity is unlimited and social media integration is – naturally – included (automated updates to your Twitter posts).

For SEO projects (now we’re able to optimise video) this looks like a useful tool to bookmark. Oh – and it’s free to try.

                        

It’s easy to overlook the significance of Facebook’s translation application. But considering there are now 65 officially supported languages on Facebook (including Pirate…) the increasingly ‘international’ footprint of Facebook cannot be ignored for much longer. Brands with international or pan-regional footprints should be talking to their agencies and Facebook about the opportunities Facebook can engineer.
Considering that it has been Facebook’s willing army of volunteer translators that have driven the translations – some 300,000 of them – there would appear to be a seriously connected community out there. Maybe that’s who we really need to be talking with?

(For a really well designed infographic by Muhammad Saleem on Facebook’s six year growth take a look here.)