Social Media Experiment - Twitter follow or Un follow by Sampad Swain

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Social Media Experiment: How online behavior can reduce Twitter noise By Sampad Swain.

The post takes into account a online survey and analysis to understand 2 questions : Why people FOLLOW or UN-FOLLOW in twitter. Taking cues from the survey, Sampad has tried to understand how online behavior can be used to reduce the noise in twitter and hence increase signal/noise ratio.....Read more at http://managementchords.blogspot.com/2008/05/social-media-experiment-how-online.html

Some great insigth explained in a very simple manner & the question was: Why u *FOLLOW* or *Un-FOLLOW* someone in Twitter?

Methodology: Launched a survey on 19th May via tweets asking the same question. Till date got about 32 responses off 310/203 i.e. “Following/Followers” in Sampad Twitter profile through Twitter replies, direct messages (DM’s), emails and additional few responses came from other sources anonymously.

Findings & Conclusion
There is no doubt that there is a lot of noise in twitter due to spam messages, blog links, self-glorifying updates, blog marketing and many more ways. But from the figures above, it is very much clear that usable information will get Tweople following you whereas spam messages will put Tweople off.

You can also follow my updates on Twitter at http://twitter.com/afzee

Google Displays Walter Gropius Building Logo - Walter Gropius Bauhaus Founder

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On 16th May we have seen the "Google Laser Logo" and as of today 18th May 2008) Google is displaying Walter Gropius Building Logo on Google Search Engine Page to honor & celebrating 125th Birthday of the Great German architect, Walter Gropius.

It's intresting to check Google homepage daily and look for their logo's.

Google has started honoring & dispalying their Logo in a innovative way. On 16th May 2008 we saw "Google Laser Logo" to honor the invention of First Laser by Theodore Harold Maiman.

On 18th May 2008 Google is displaying nice architectured building logo to celebrate 125th Birthday of the Great German architect, Walter Gropius.

ABOUT Walter Gropius (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia):
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus[1] who along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture and buildings.


Personal information
Name: Walter Adolph Gropius
Nationality: German / American
Birth date: May 18, 1883(1883-05-18)
Birth place: Berlin, Germany
Date of death: July 5, 1969 (aged 86)
Place of death: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Work Practice Name:
Peter Behrens (1908–1910)
The Architects' Collaborative (1945–1969)







Walter Gropius (circa 1920). Photo by Louis Held.


Read more at Wikipedia


Bauhaus Building

Significant buildings:

Read more at Wikipedia

I am waiting to watch which Logo Google is going to display next.

Google Laser - Google New Logo

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Have you seen the Google Search Engine Logo today. You might have seen it but yet not noticed it, yes it has been changed likewise Google always does so. Everytime when there is some special cause or events like Christmas, New Year, Mother's Day, Earth Day or many other Google and other search engine always change their Logo's.

This new logo is "Google First Laser Invention Logo"

What encouraged me & given thought to publish this post is something unique about this LOGO. Previously whenever Google has changed their logo it was always inline with there basic brand identity logo like below:-

Now if you compare it with all other Google Logo's till time they sticked to the above pattern. But this time they came up with "Google Laser Logo" which rejuvenate their Brand.

Have a look at it:-




Isn't it very different from previous Logo's. If google ask me to share my view's I would say it is not that much pleasing & remarkable in comparison to previous ones.

I tried to figure out Google's Message which they might want to convey by displaying this logo. It will be Google is like "Laser Rays" which is intense, coherent, directional and very pure to penetrate and can rule any Industry.

Or Google Search Engine is like that concentrates user search beheaviour into an intense, narrow results by using their Algorithm used to destroy other search engines & un-ehtical results.

But hey wait.....Does Google care for my view's :-)

Supportive Screenshot:

Google's Search Engine ScreenShot taken on 17th May 2008 at 01:05 am (GMT +5:30)