Kapalua Resort announced their new MySpace page on their blog, KapaluaNews.com. Their MySpace page can be found at www.myspace.com/KapaluaResort. You can see they have a few friends there already and belong to a few groups; they also provide some very fetching photographs of Kapalua and the surrounding area, as well as some useful versions of their company logo. It’ll be interesting to see how many friends and fans they can garnish. I’m sure there are a lot of people on MySpace who love to vacation, especially to such beautiful places as Kapalua on Maui, Hawaii. And certainly there are plenty of local Hawaiians on MySpace who would feel a connection to Kapalua Resort.

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Maui Pineapple’s MySpace page currently contains basic information about the company and a group of Maui Gold pineapple pictures and company logos. They say on the blog that the company will soon be putting videos on the MySpace page. The page is apparently quite new, but it looks like they have 10 MySpace friends already.

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This is the last post of mine on SocialRiots - but if you liked my content and read this blog - you can still find me online at The Analytics Guru, ArtNewYorkCity.com and Webmetricsguru.com. 

See you there! 

But the problem is - it was hard to actually set something like that up - but now, according to Read/WriteWeb, you can Crowdsource Your Decisions with SocialThumbs

SocialThumbs nixes the "interesting" column and simplifies things by limiting scoring to plus or minus 5 -- where as de Bono's scoring system was arbitrary.

Ha, ha, ha ... can you imagine - but you'd really need to figure out how to present your idea to get the best and fairest vote - not sure how you do that.

I noticed each of the Presidential Campaign Widgets has a "tone" to it - and it's slanted, somewhat.   I can't honestly say the Presidential Widgets are useful, or not - but they are amusing. 

There's a new movie out (at least, it's out on YouTube and CD) called Google Me that brings up the idea that there are more versions of "us" out there than we might have ordinarily known about. 

I'm not sure how deep you can carry the idea of looking for people who have the same name as you - and if you could get a film like this made (not an easy thing to do) - I bet he had to pitch the idea to someone who had the money to produce the movie plus he had to have enough interesting people who shared the name to make it worthwhile to make the movie.

Here's the description:

79th Street BoatHouse Tweetup on 4-21-08 NYC I got together with a few NYC Tweeter Friends for a Tweetup that was really fun on a perfect springlike night - Yea Social Media! Fun Tweetup tonight with @whitneyhess @webmetricsguru @hikirsch @efortiz @coreyh and his fiancée Emily. Thanks everyone!

According to B.L.: 

 

This is my new Emoodicon - the updated version of the mood ring - sent by my friend, and Emoodicon's inventor, artist John T. Unger.

Go get yourself one. And while you're there, get several for the geeks and digital natives in your life. They are going mad love Emoodicons.

How Emoodicon rings work: the glass top of the stainless steel ring screws off so you can insert the emoticom disk that displays the mood you want to show the world at the moment. Smileys, frownies, and symbols for shy, ROFL, devilish, bugged, and others familiar from email are included in the set of 25 that comes with each of the techie mood rings. You store them inside the ring and change them when the spirit moves you.

I guess, with social media, it's also nice to be able to "flash" non verbal signals to your community - I guess the old "mood ring" works for this. 

I think the point here is the Internet, itself, is polluted, and there's so much going on that is really about conversation.  Marketing should not just be a pitch.

Consumers in the U.S. and Western Europe are more likely to be passive social-media participants -- sharing videos and reading blogs -- while those in emerging markets often create content through blogging, social networks and video and photo sharing sites.

"By and large, in the U.S. we're a country of voyeurs," said David Cohen, U.S. director of digital communications at Universal McCann, which conducted the study. "We love to watch and consume content created by others, but there's a fairly small group that are doing that creation -- unlike China, which is a country of creators."

Strange, but I thought the United States was the leader in Social Media usage, but I think we need to compare active creation vs. consumption - which this study does.

Tom Smith, a research manager for the EMEA region at UM, said the gulf exists because blogs play a different role in the societies. In China, for instance, blogs tend to be about daily life rather than current affairs.

"Blogging in Western Europe and U.S. has been less of a community but conveying your opinion on different topics," he said.

Because of how widespread blogging is globally, UM declares it "rivals any mass media in terms of reach, time spent and wider cultural, social and political impact." For that reason, blogs represent an accurate reflection of trends and consumer opinions, according to the agency.

Which one do you like better?  For me, it's Tweet Clouds, but I've never been able to get Tweet Cloud to work for me, don't know why - or maybe it's their super slow servers.

Anyway, I just tried it now again and it's trying to do it - probably it'll come back in 30 minutes with my cloud - or maybe later I'll just go look at it at

http://www.tweetclouds.com/user_pages/webmetricsguru.html

Ops, I figured that one out - Conversion Rap 

The apartment in the video seems so "empty" and stale, and I could swear I've met this lady in NYC somewhere - maybe not her, literally, but her type, empty as the apartment she claims to be evicted out of - and probably a little drunk when the video was shot.

See for yourself:

"...The polls are easy to use. The poll includes a description of the Twitterer who posted the poll. There is also a comment form where people can comment or maybe add a write-in suggestion. There are quite a few people testing PollDaddy's new Twitter tool out on Twitter today. As with any service if it is overused it could become annoying."

Also noted today that Ads may be sold soon on Twitter - which might dampen the enthusiasm Twitter has had over the last year or so it's existed among followers - and honestly, while Ads and Polls are good features, I think the reason why people use Twitter are not for these things - but as a form on instant and personal communication.