Tweet NYC

If you're a fan of social media and the Big Apple head on over to Fast Company to check out these beautiful infographics on the languages of New York mapped out by Tweets.

As one might expect, Midtown Manhattan is exceptionally multi-lingual with other areas of the city being dominated by particular groups - Spanish in the Bronx, Russian in Brighton Beach, etc. Amazingly, however, all these hundreds of thousands of tweets only represent 6% of the number of tweet that went out during the time the data was collected. The other 94% of tweets belonging to English speakers (who may in fact be bilingual).

Really interesting data, and as Fast Co. point out, this could be an interesting way to look at urban planning. But, if nothing else, it's nice to look at.

Woody Allen Supercut!

Every Woody Allen stammer from every Woody Allen film. Enjoy! Oh, and this thing is like 40-some minutes long, so you may want to sit back and relax.

Yes, Tilda Swinton is Napping at the MoMA

In case you missed it, Tilda Swinton took a snooze at the MoMA yesterday...in a glass box...next to a video of an elephant playing dead. #Fact #Awesome

This is all part of an ongoing performance piece, called "The Maybe," taking place at random times throughout the year.

To learn more about the work, and to view more pictures of Tilda sleeping, click here.

Google Maps: Street Ghosts

Street Ghosts is a creative take on Google's "infringement" of privacy as it takes images of people captured on Google's Street View and creates human-scaled posters out of them. These are then plastered onto the buildings - freezing the subjects in reality from where they are forever frozen online. Basically the artist is taking the idea of graffiti tagging to a entirely new level with these I-was-here-esque tags - only for other individuals.

From the artist's statement:

In this project, I exposed the specters of Google’s eternal realm of private, misappropriated data: the bodies of people captured by Google’s Street View cameras, whose ghostly, virtual presence I marked in Street Art fashion at the precise spot in the real world where they were photographed.
Street Ghosts hit some of the most important international Street Art “halls of fame” with low-resolution, human scale posters of people taken from Google Street View. These images do not offer details, but the blurred colors and lines on the posters give a gauzy, spectral aspect to the human figures, unveiling their presence like a digital shadow haunting the real world.

I love it.

How Many B2Bs Out There Use Quora?

I've recently been poking around Quora to see if could be a useful tool in reaching a more professionally focused social media audience. But, I'm still on the fence as to its effectiveness.

In this recent chart on what social media platforms B2B marketers are currently using, Quora is coming in dead last...even behind Tumblr!

While I'm not surprised by the big 3 (LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook) topping the chart, I guess I am a bit surprised at the lack Quora-use. Is it just because the platform isn't very well known? I guess I hadn't really heard of it until a few months ago.

Are there any B2B-ers out there in the social sphere actively utlizing Quora, and what are the results? Good? Bad? Ugly? I'd love to hear. Thanks!