Kettlevision Links – July 23rd, 2010

CreativeApplications.Net | Apps That Inspire…
http://www.creativeapplications.net/
Hey wow, there goes my lunchtime. All week.

What BP Could Have Bought With All the Money They Lost |
http://www.visualeconomics.com/what-bp-could-have-bought-with-all-the-money-they-lost/
Excuse the stupid side scrolling, this is nuts.

Andrew Johnstone
http://www.andrewjohnstone.com/
Sweet photos

http://unevengoogle.com/
I wish I could work out how to make my firefox location bar quicksearch link to this instead of the normal, boring google.

Bertelli • Biciclette Assemblate • New York City
http://www.bertellibici.com/
Lovely builds
And related – The Bike Stylist
http://thebikestylist.tumblr.com/
pretty sweet resource (for bike geeks)

Winter Berlin / Matthias Heiderich
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Winter-Berlin/414331
Beautiful eye for composition (his other projects are great also)

Undercover Karaoke with Jewel from Jewel
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/4a87d48fdd/undercover-karaoke-with-jewel
The tell me she only sings at Christmas parties.
This made me smile.

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What’s this?

A bunch of links to interesting things online – some new, some old. Kettlevision.com is the personal website of Harley Donaldson, a senior interactive designer at VJ Melbourne.

The Influence Cycle

The pressures of keeping up with the Kutchers has driven many a marketing whiz to drink and fake Twitter/Facebook accounts. But how exactly does one determine one’s social influence? Michael Brito has developed a handy guide to help:

10 ways to determine if you have social influence

1. You follow 100K people and they all follow you back.
2. You follow 100K people and 200K follow you back (this person has more influence than the previous).
3. You have a low (follower/followee) ratio because you un-follow the majority of the people who you previously followed.
4. You go to the local grocery store and a random person shouts “Hey, I know you! I follow you on Twitter and RT everything you share”.
5. You have a personal Facebook Fan Page (it doesn’t matter how many people like you either. The mere fact that you have one is all that matters).
6. Your twitter CTR is 38% on all the links you share about YOU.
7. Others randomly RT YOUR Klout score (keyword – RT)
8. You get invited to speak at every social media conference (even if you have to pay for your own travel, you still have influence).
9. You check in to a random location on Foursquare and it turns into a Tweetup in honor of YOU!
10. You get your profile image on Fast Company; you Tweet it, it gets RT’d … and the cycle continues.

In case you didn’t get it, I am being completely facetious with this post. I personally think that anyone who considers themselves to have “real influence” just because they have a certain amount of followers or fans is a complete joke. My opinion only.

There are only 3 things that I care about having influence over; my family (and friends), my co-workers and my clients in that order. Everything else is irrelevant.

Sometimes, having that extra follower is just about nee-ner-nee-nering your nemeses.

Sidenote: Barney Stinson (@broslife) just gained his 100,000th follower. It’s gems like “Bros…nude beaches are never as awesome as you think. It’s usually just a bunch of old naked people who remind you of your parents.” that keep me coming back. Consider me influenced.

Rising Sun wins FWA SOTD!

VJ just won our 6th FWA site of the day! This time for the Army’s newest recruiting campaign Under A Rising Sun. Amazing work team and a huge thanks goes out to everyone who pitched in and made this such a great campaign.

Thanks Ben for wearing the sash!

Winning the web: Most successful websites in Australia

Hitwise, by Experian, is a competitive intelligence service that collects data directly from participating Internet Service Providers to analyse trends in website user behaviour and to measure website market share. In order to gain further insights into demographics, Hitwise also utilises ‘opt-in panels‘ that monitor the internet usage of a representative sample of consenting users. Interestingly, Hitwise is able to analyse the movement of visitors between websites, so the information they can offer about the audience for any particular website can be very detailed and valuable to marketers.

Each year the Experian Hitwise Online Performance Awards recognise Australia’s most successful websites based on their market share of visits by Australian’s in over 160 categories. Website owners are not required to be a client of Hitwise to be eligible for the award.

Here’s a summary of some interesting results from the 2009 winners:

• Google.com.au, being the most popular search engine, made the top spot in the Computers and Internet category; alongside NineMSN.com.au and YouTube.com.
• YouTube.com, MySpace.com and forums.whirlpool.net.au made the top three spots in Social Networking and Forums – note that Facebook did not make the list because only Australian websites or those with an Australian base were included.
• YourTV.com.au (provided by NineMSN.com) made it in the top three for both Entertainment and Television.
• Banks took all the top three spots in the Business and Finance category, particularly online banking services, despite other major businesses being listed in this category such as Telstra.com, Seek.com.au, and Realestate.com.au. Just goes to show how frequently people are now using internet banking as an everyday activity.
• Classifieds dominated the top three spots in the automotive category; and it was great to see Holden.com.au making the top spot in the Automotive Manufacturers subcategory – go Holden!
• WorldVision.com.au, PetRescue.com.au and redcross.org.au, made the top three community sites.

Here’s a link to the complete list of winners.

The 2010 winners are expected to be announced in the new year.

Kettlevision Links – July 9th, 2010

NOAH KALINA
http://www.noahkalina.com/
Pretty amazing photos

macro kingdom II on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/12849638?hd=1
Nicely done – Cheers Barron

Feynman on Honours
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j9TmDi0vNY
I like this man

Voice Activated Corgi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdUmHKVdyU

Ninja Skillz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EWfiWEQnmo

Shut up Legs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2GXeHbsG40

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What’s this?

A bunch of links to interesting things online – some new, some old. Kettlevision.com is the personal website of Harley Donaldson, a senior interactive designer at VJ Melbourne.