DanGer Mouse - The life and times of Dan Ball

Aka DanGer Mouse, Superman & Don Draper / A London socialite, A Gooner, Media maestro & Hank Moody wannabe / Swam with sharks, jumped out of a plane & ran 26 & a bit miles round Istanbul.......

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More websites are adding sharing buttons, and can see up to seven times the mentions as a result. One way websites and content publishers can get readers and consumers to share their content is to mak

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A few recurring Twitter trends tussled for dominance in August, and if you've been following our weekly chart, you likely won't be surprised by this month's aggregate. Soccer was strong week after week, and ultimately came out on top in August thanks to a variety of highly anticipated matc...

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Lovin' this track - another gem to add to the party collection

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Henry Rollins, Hank Moody, and the radio interview that went to hell

Henry Rollins: What's your latest obsession?

Hank Moody: Just the fact that people seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically four figure wank machines. The internet was supposed to set us free, democratize us, but all it's really given us is Howard Dean's aborted candidacy and 24 hour a day access to kiddie porn. People... they don't write anymore, they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it's just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people at a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King's English.

Henry Rollins: Yet you're part of the problem, I mean you're out there blogging with the best of them.

Hank Moody: Hence my self-loathing.

-Californication; Season 1, Episode 5: LOL

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Captain Fantastic Van Persie showing us how and why Arsenal are going to prosper despite Cesc's departure

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beauty

Indeed

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Jack The LAD - website launch

A new portal for all the obscene anecdotes you probably wouldn’t tell your girlfriend’s parents over dinner, Jackthelad.org is an hilarious and morally reprehensible new website from four digital media LADS out for the kind of rotten laughs you normally save for an afternoon misspent down the Dog & Duck.

Jackthelad.org is your opportunity to share your funniest, grossest, rudest and most taboo stories for the appreciation of other Jack the LADS the world over.

So pay us a visit and soak up the depravity. There’ll be stories of birds, beer, banterous nights out and bucketloads of bush. If you’ve got a story that fits that description – or if you’ve got something even we couldn’t imagine – drop by and see if you can shock us (clue: you probably won’t).

No dweeby internet beefs, no hatin’ – just big laughs and laddish misbehaviour. Gentlemen, it’s time to unleash your Jack the LAD. 

Visit http://www.jackthelad.org today!

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After days of riots in London, thousands of Londoners and worldwide supporters are taking to social networks to help reclaim the streets of London. While rioters took to the underground paths of BlackBerry Messenger to organize, the highly spreadable mediums of Twitter and Facebook have shown ...

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tamgoose:

I read a really interesting article this morning on re-targeting and how to do it effectively.

“By now, almost everyone has been targeted by online advertising. One minute you’re browsing for a pair of pants and then for days on end, everywhere you go on the web, you’re stalked by the same...

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Berliner Jan Vormann and Parisian Sébastien Preschoux create clever, site-specific art installations that interact with their immediate environments

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Awesome Drum and Bass tune by Brookes Brothers. Check out the album

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iPad Head Girl walks around Bryant Park in New York City.

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Advertisers Begin to Look Beyond Facebook and Twitter

Marketers plan to extend social media ad investments.

Social network marketing is now de rigueur for most brands. eMarketer estimates that 80% of companies with at least 100 employees conduct marketing activities on social networks this year. Fewer are advertising on social networks, but the number is growing.

May 2011 research from The Pivot Conference and Brian Solis found that two-thirds of marketers surveyed were already conducting social media advertising activities, and 18% more planned to do so in the next year. Most agreed that these efforts would prove very valuable, and 54% of those currently running ads were satisfied.

The success of these efforts so far—along with the continuing growth in consumer usage of social sites—may be leading advertisers to expand their plans to more social venues. Currently, Facebook and, to a lesser extent, Twitter dominate. More than nine in 10 respondents have deployed campaigns on Facebook and 78% have done so on Twitter; eMarketer estimates these sites will make $2.19 billion and $140 million, respectively, in US revenues this year. But advertising on sites like YouTube, LinkedIn and foursquare will grow: at least 20% of survey respondents indicate they would begin campaigns on these sites in the next year.

Lagging social networks may have to do more for advertisers, however, if they want to gain share as the social ad market gains momentum. A majority of respondents rated Facebook’s ad offerings excellent or good, but no other social site received such praise. Despite Twitter’s No. 2 ranking in advertiser usage, just 11% thought its ad offerings were excellent. This, in particular, could change as Twitter is expected to roll out more products, including a self-service option, this year.

More education for marketers may also be needed. While many have adopted social media usage enthusiastically, their knowledge of social advertising may be lagging. Among respondents that don’t currently advertise on social sites but plan to in the next year, 83% believed that simply blogging or tweeting for a company was a form of social advertising. Just 69% cited paid placements or other paid visibility programs on the sites. Social networks that want to encourage uptake of those paid products may have to do more to make them visible and understandable for marketers.

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Q-Tip and Norah Jones combine to produce one of my favourite Hip-Hop tunes of recent years - Enjoy

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Google's web browser Chrome is now the second most-popular browser in the United Kingdom, according to web metrics company Statcounter. Chrome's market share has been on an upward trajectory globally, but in the UK Google's browser has been doing exceptionally well, having captured a 22.12% m...