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Policing Flickr.com

By Chris Colin, Special to SF Gate

Monday, September 29, 2008






It’s 11 a.m., and a handful of Flickr.com employees have gathered around a messy conference table to discuss, as they have daily for six years, the minutiae of governing humans. First order of business, the Brazilians. It seems a suspicious number of people in Sao Paulo have been using the popular photo-hosting site to post pictures of dishware. The idea is to sell the stuff — a clear violation of the company’s no-commerce rule.

e eu fiquei catando ideias de branded content na internet. a agencia que fez os comerciais do seinfeld com o bill gates produziu esses filmes da volkswagen e colocou no youtube. um conceito engraçado de ugc em eventos. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDlv5B0Thus&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-aeti7r2no&feature=related

crispin porter + bogusky -  (da uma olhada tb nos outros videos da vw no site, não da para copiar os links pq o site ta todo em flash )

Twitter is Growing Like Crazy: Up 422% in 12 Months

September 16, 2008 - 2:09 pm PDT - by Adam Ostrow4 Comments

The latest numbers are in, and Twitter is apparently growing at a torrid pace. According to stats just released from Nielsen Online, Twitter recorded 2.3 million unique visitors in August (US-only), an increase of 422% from the same period last year.

Moreover, visitors to Twitter spent 55% more time on the site on average – a total of more than 7 minutes per user. Those numbers point to rather robust growth for the site, especially considering many of its most rabid users access it through a third-party client like Twhirl or Tweetdeck.

Elsewhere in the social networking space, Facebook continued to narrow the gap on MySpace, a trend we also noticed last month. Unique visitors to the site grew to 38.2 million, representing a more than 10% month-over-month increase and a 100% jump year-over-year. MySpace saw 61.3 million unique visitors – up slightly from last month, but still essentially flat compared to the same pe