As part of listening to the real time web we often stumble upon some entertaining tidbits. We found some interesting nuggets over this past week that range from a primate’s photos on her Facebook fan page to a well-known actor recycling a fund-raising idea. In case you missed these, here’s our top 5 most interesting social media stories of the week:
Nonga, an Orangutang’s Facebook Fan Page. She has a raisin-dispenser that dubs as a camera that uploads her photos directly to her Fan Page.
Fiesta Movement agents and their Twitter friends gathered at the Palladium in West Hollywood Tuesday night and set a new Guinness World Record for the “most attendees at a tweetup” Coverage here.
Sean Kingston: “Follow Me (Twitter Song)”. Sing Kingston tries to gain Twitter followers through song…it’s actually pretty good. Audio here.
Ben Stiller attempts to raise funds for schools in Haiti with StillerStrong. Not sure if he’s serious, but our headbands are en route to the Filtrbox office!
Comcast’s purchase of NBC Universal could shake the up social media in a big way in terms of the way we watch “television” programs. Here’s the Hulu video clip of Conan O’brien’s humerous reaction to the purchase.
Exciting news, Filtrbox just keeps getting better! We’ve improved the service by adding several important content sources, better article classification, source metrics on relevant articles and a new summary view that helps you spot trends more quickly.
Filtrbox G2 now monitors public Facebook Groups/Fan Pages, over a million forums (threaded conversation pages), YouTube, Flickr and more. This expanded source coverage will ensure you never miss a conversation regardless of where it starts. All of the relevant conversations are visible in your dashboard providing a single consolidated view for monitoring, alerting and engagement.
The system now classifies mentions into 7 content types to make it easy to see where the conversations are happening and search just the sources that are important to you. We have also added domain traffic data for relevant articles to help you gauge the distribution of each post.
The 7 content types are:
* News - mainstream news and editorial outlets.
* Blogs - weblogs, blogs, the blogosphere, etc. Filtrbox monitors over 25 million of them.
* Social - sometimes known as microblogs. This includes Facebook public data, Twitter, and FriendFeed.
* Forums - online groups and forums. These are sites that provide threaded discussion groups and are extremely popular with online communities and organized groups. We now monitor over a million of them!
* Comments - All mentions found in blog comments are put into this category, and tend to have COMMENT in the title to clearly identify them.
* Video - Filtrbox now monitors YouTube, and classifies mentions and comments that match Filtrs from known online video sites.
* Images - Flickr and other popular online image sites.
Here is a brief video overview of the new dashboard:
