zeatbra

Once again I find myself watching these creatures !!!! If these individuals are so successful why do they want to be Alan Sugar’s assistant ?

Ah !! There 15 minutes !

#thebigbangtheory has to be the funniest tv programme ever !!

Facebook buys Instageam for $1 billion, wonder how much it will be worth when everyone closes their account ? I’m deleting the App. Facebook has become almost an necessary evil but is ran in such an appalling way that it will be there downfall.

Goodbye instagram

So it’s technical drawings, house plans etc for the next day or two !! Lil zeatbra will be getting half of my time for the next few days. :(

See the full gallery on Posterous

So, What is Klout, if you didnt know already ?

http://klout.com/corp/kscore [extract below]

The Klout Score measures influence based on your ability to drive action. Every time you create content or engage you influence others. The Klout Score uses data from social networks in order to measure:

• True Reach: How many people you influence
• Amplification: How much you influence them
• Network Impact: The influence of your network

So does Klout have any Klout ? or is it just another business tapping into your existing social networks to create yet another social network ? Its too early to say but from what i have seen so far i quite like it, i can see me getting addicted to raising my score, this is probably just my competitive nature more than anything else, whether it serves any real purpose remains to be seen.

[I would be lying if i said i didnt spend over an hour on foursquare last night growing that neglected network, score didnt change, yet !!]

Do you have Klout ?, Whats your thoughts ?

Using Facebook for a while now, at first i was curious, then loved it, now use it to pretty much make a living by doing other companies social media management. So how do i feel about Facebook ?

As a product it does some pretty special things, things that today we cant imagine not having. As a product its terrible, updates without you applying them, limits without you knowing them, I am falling out of love with facebook at a very fast pace to the point I will be closing mine soon, so this does fly in the face of living without these super new features that we now have in our lives, staying in touch with old friends, gaining contact with new ones etc. I just think Socially, I am no better off, I lost touch with the people i chose to lose touch with, my best friends are still my best friends, I have no urge to tell the world what i am up to every second of the day, because i am simply busy, neither do i want to.

With regards to facebook as a business, this remains a mystery to me. They appear to be completely faceless, and voiceless ! no direct email, no telephone, they dont comment on posts on their page or tweets on their twitter. No other business operates this way, because they cant if they want to do ay business. Yes, its free, but i still expect to have assistance, without users there is no business for facebook. Unhappy Users = former users.

In summary, is my life richer for having an online social presence ?, no. One thing is for sure that Facebook will have to answer for the “future non communicating generation” who cant talk face to face and hold a conversation - but are quite happy to poke, tag, comment and share their every waking mundane thought.

rant over.

Ironic that the facebook organisation are a faceless organisation, I can communicate with almost everyone around the world except facebook themselves ! just a thought

Join the conversation, feel free to start one.

Can’t watch another minute of this tv show. Surely this the the equivalent of winning x factor ! #canttakeyouserious

Anyway : analytics today (site has been live 2 days now !! I think !!)

I tweeted a few days ago that I found @foodnetwork, they appeared to be the daddy with regards to food networks on Twitter, having  gave them a good look over this morning it appears they dont have quite the following as they appear. Scrolling through their follower list, there is a massive amount, and i mean massive amount of twitter accounts with no picture and no bio !! , this most likely means ‘bots’ or dummy accounts, or inactive users !!

I know followers can be purchased, Im not suggesting that these guys did purchase followers to boost their numbers to look like the big guys, im just saying they probably did !! lol :]

Think Ill tweet them and ask them !!, Ill report back !!

Im going to record my findings via video, upload and ask !!

Thanks to everyone who signed up last night / this morning on www.zeatbra.com and hello to our new followers. :)

Just completed a swap over of my twitter accounts @zeatbra and @dinnz. @dinnz was the original idea and a twitter account etc was set up early on, just realised I had amassed 1,400 followers so rather than close it I thought it best to rename @zeatbra as @zeatbra1 to free up the name and then log in as @dinnz and change the @dinnz name to @zeatbra !! Ta da !!!! I’ll inform my hooker following that I have moved.

Job 4 tomorrow : check the twitter airports ate still working.
Also, red laser got back to me today, they don’t do bar codes !!! Doh !

Just had a thought !! tomorrow I will look and see if i can somehow hijack the sign up process with a social payment system integration to assist in the spread of the project.

for example, I get you to the site, you add your email address to signup for the special preview list, before its accepted you need to hit the “like button” or “retweet” to continue, therefore you are telling your friends / followers what you just signed up to ! makes sense !!!

Summary:

Friday we started Project Zeatbra. We have since created and claimed our name in facebook, twitter, posterous, blogger, wordpress, tumblr, flickr, youtube, vimeo and linked in. We have connected all accounts back to posterous excluding facebook [fan page only] and vimeo due to minor technical issues.

We have created the www.zeatbra.com landing page and logo and connected a mail collection form into a mailchimp account. [i have added the contacts i have been collected for 12 months or more in to this account]

Facebook has : 301 likes so far
Twitter has : 15 followers so far [mostly strippers !!! see previous posts]
Mailchimp subscribers : 27,044, lots more to do.

The mail list is key to our success as the project needs to have a huge following to succeed, like any business I guess, but this is an integral part of our success - content is king !! This will be explained why later nearer launch.

check out www.zeatbra.com and get yourself added to our special preview list [you just might make some money!!]

Team Zeatbra

I think tomorrow I will concentrate on coverting the logo into a real barcode that links back to the website, like a digital signature, I also might tinker with it a lil. :]

Feel like I have spent hours merging email addresses into the mailchimp account. Yahoo seems to have changed its t&c’s also, it now won’t let you export your Facebook friends email addresses which now keeps them locked within yahoo !!

Think I’ll start the design on the HTML email to say hello to all the lil zeatbra’s.

Ps : foot is very sore today, and large !!

Http://www.zeatbra.com landing page is finished, just checking the few links it has then will upload via filezilla.

Next up : submit to google and other search engines. Close down old twitter accounts and Facebook pages - need to streamline my work and get rid of things that occupy my time.

I think I may retire from squash ! That’s injury number 3 in 8 weeks. Think I’ll finish the www.zeatbra.com site later tonight.

Not a great start to the day, playing squash at 9:00 -11:00, in the hospital for 11:15 !! Ankle made the loudest Snap, crack n pop !!! Checked in at hairmyres at 11:30 - let’s see how long I wait !!

I have posted on Posterous, Twitter, Facebook and Red Laser with questions relating to their product and features that currently appear broken. All 4 are hugely popular companies / products, with Facebook [3million]and Twitter [9 million] having huge followings.

As expected, No answer from any of them, I have tried emailing this morning so lets see if thtat works. So the question is, if facebook and twitter and supposed to be social networks with conversation flowing in both directions, can the conversation ever flow in both directions when a huge following is present ?, I would think the conversation is dead.

With regards to Posterous and Red Laser, they have moderate followings, Posterous has been purchased by Twitter this week so I have no faith in getting a response, with Red laser I assume the twitter presence is a gesture. Like many companies, nice to have the account and a good follower list but is simply an unmanned site. :[

Is it just me or is twitter full of hookers ? Open a Twitter account and the first handful of followers (within hours) will be pretty girls (which I’m sure are not real) trying to get you to follow them and sell you photos !! #odd !!!

That’s enough for today, time for lil zeatbra to go to bed. Can’t get the posterous API on Facebook to connect, no answer from posterous guys ! Hmmm ! Twitter bought over them this week - explains a lot if you have ever tried getting answer from Twitter.

Going to watch Sahara now on C4 HD, looks total pants but it will do.

I am having a few problems with Posterous today !!! as well as no answer to my tweets to Posterous !!! :(I am having probems witht he facebook widget / app to enable autoposting to pages !! it appears to be not working
also, Posterous use the vimeo logo within their autopost support, where is this function ?