Month: November 2010

“Stay off of Facebook” competition shut down by Facebook

Oh, the irony. Swedish tea brand Kobbs launched a competition in which consumers were challenged to stay off of Facebook for a week. To take part in the competition, users had to connect via their Facebook profile. The competition was supposed to last for a month, but was closed down today, after being live only for a few days.

Contest shut down by Facebook

There is no publicly available information explaining why Facebook shut down the contest. My guess is that there could be several reasons that the contest was in breach of Facebook Promotions Guidelines, but the use of the brand Facebook in the contest headline is a prime suspect.

For some tips on how to run a successful contest on Facebook, check out these tips.

UK newspapers can charge for links, says High Court

The British newspaper industry is fighting tooth and nail to stop commercial services from aggregating links to newspaper content for free. In January 2010, The National Licensing Agency (NLA), which is owned by eight newspaper publishers in the UK, started charging sites that link to newspaper’s online articles as part of their paid-for services.

Today the High Court in the UK ruled in favour of the National Licensing Agency in the case against Meltwater. The Court concluded that aggregated web links taken from newspaper websites are protected by copyright law.

Separate Copyright Tribunal proceedings on the matter are expected to take place in February 2011.

Full story on the Press Gazette.

Swedish TV4 suspended on Twitter

Two weeks ago, Spotify which is one of the most followed Swedish brands on Twitter, were suspended on Twitter for two days without any further information. In a comment to my blog post a representative from Spotify said it was due to technical reasons at Twitter.

Today I noticed that TV4, the largest Swedish tv channel, have also been suspended on Twitter. According to some recent data I have saved, TV4 have some 1,200 followers on Twitter.

The suspended account is @tv4se

tv4 twitter

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Swedish band jj among the most blogged artists this week

The Swedish band jj are the second most blogged artists this week, according to The Hype Machine, which tracks artists on more than 1,000 music blogs. Sweden’s Robyn is moving up two spots to #4.

Most blogged artists on November 21 at 10 am GMT:

  1. Girl Talk (no change)
  2. jj (no change)
  3. Bikini (+3)
  4. Robyn (+2)
  5. Gorillaz (re-entry)
  6. Chromeo (re-entry)
  7. Patrick Wolf (new)
  8. The Morning Benders (re-entry)
  9. Jay Electronica (new)
  10. Jay-Z (new)

Listen to jj’s new single Let Them on The Hype Machine.

Source: The Independent.

Curated.by has a new look

Curated.by is a site that lets users curate content in social media and share what they find valueable on Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. It is till in beta and works only with Twitter, but yesterday they announced some new features and a new design.

“Today we’re turning it into a place, that let’s you follow the topics you are interested in and create and share your own topics with everyone else.

As part of this process, we are moving away from being a pure Twitter curation tool and instead of just allowing you to curate tweets, you will be able to curate any information into your bundles from tomorrow on.”

Although I still can’t curate any other source than Twitter, there are some new features worth mentioning. For example, there is a tab for “mentions” which is a way for me to find out if any of my curated content has been used by anyone else on curated.by. There is also some statistics on each of the bundles that shows how many times the bundle has been viewed (a bundle is simply one channel or topic in which I create content).

I have created a few bundles like http://www.curated.by/kullin/sweden and http://www.curated.by/kullin/social-media. Below you can also find an embedded curated bundle about the SIME10 event in Stockholm.