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Weekly Social Media Update

Posted by Sinead Doyle September 1st, 2010

Gmail Voice Calls

Calling from Gmail

Google has added Skype-like functionality to Gmail: you can call landlines and mobiles from Google Chat, for free. It’s currently available only in the US and Australia, but keep your eyes peeled for the UK launch: the service has already proved popular, with over a million calls made in the first day.

Diaspora Launch

If you’re tired of Facebook’s increasing ubiquity, you have only weeks to wait before you can jump ship: Diaspora will launch its consumer facing alpha version in October. The open source code will be released on the 15th of September, giving developers a headstart to think about how the project can be integrated with existing services.

Interactive Twitter Murals

The Canadian Tourism Commission has placed giant touch screen murals on US high streets to display real time updates from people talking about Canada. What better way to inspire the persuadable passer by? Hat tip to Pipa for finding this.

Arcade Fire Streetview Video

This is really rather lovely. Arcade Fire are seamlessly integrating Google Street View images in their latest music video – “The Wilderness Downtown”. Simply enter your childhood postcode, and watch as the video is populated with your own nostalgic landscapes. Clever use of HTML5 – thanks to @blackplastic and @samstokes for spotting it.

David’s Bee Beard

Save the bees! LBi and Your Mum have teamed up to draw attention to the plight of the humble bee. Tweet your support to David’s Bee Beard and watch as the beardy petition becomes a mighty swarm.

Tags: Arcade Fire, bee beard, Canadian Tourism, David Cameron, David’s Bee Beard, Diaspora, Facebook, gmail, Gmail calls, Google calls, Google chat, google maps, interactive murals, LBi, music video, save the bees, Skype, Social Media, street view, twitter, twitter murals, voice calls, Wilderness Downtown

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LBi petition to save the dying bee population

Posted by Imogen Thacker August 26th, 2010

LBi has created ‘BeeBeard’, a buzzy Twitter petition to save the dying bee population.

Tweet to add your petition to the cause @davidsbeebeard and for every tweet, a bee will be popped on to David Cameron’s virtual Beebeard. The Beebeard will also talk back to you with witty bee banter.

So honey, join the buzzzz and add your own bee to David Cameron’s virtual Beebeard and petition Number 10 to save our bees. We need 10,000 twitter signatures within 4 weeks – it’s gonna be a hive of tweets. David’s beard will tweet back witty bee banter and give tips on supporting bees in local communities and also initiatives people can get involved into support our lovely bees.

With the Government saving drive in full swing, we would like to remind government to support DEFRA, The British Beekeepers Association and others in their efforts into the global problem with honey bee health. The BBKA estimates that another £8+m of Government funding is urgently needed to finance a programme of research to confront the problems, but the results of doing nothing could be catastrophic.

http://www.britishbee.org.uk/

Europe’s largest marketing and technology agency, LBi came up with this ‘buzzy’ concept to sting number 10. LBi also came up with the online social media and epr and it’s been coproduced by brand new agency Your Mum …. the first ever twitter campaign asking people to petition for more research into the declining bee population and a repository for tips on how you can individually help the bee population.

Tags: BeeBeard, David Cameron, DEFRA, LBi, LBi UK, The British Beekeepers Association

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