So I am an admitted face book junkie. It appears that I am not alone. Facebook has gripped Canada in a frenzy. I wanted to take a look at what the rest of Canada was thinking about FaceBook. I have been very surprised at the people that I have found on the system. It has extended beyond the tech savvy community or the highschool and college communities ….it has hit everywhere.

I started to look at the community groups and i was really surprised at what I was finding the adoption has not just been limited to the metropolitan areas of this country. Infact when looking at the community size as a percentage of the census population data it was quite shocking.

I looked at 2 cities in the US to see how the adoption compared to the rest of Canada. I looked at San Francisco and Boston. Two cities that are on the bleeding edge of technology. I figured that this would be a quick and informal peak at the adoption.

Boston – 596, 638 pop – 136,525 FB community – 22.88% adoption

San Francisco – 739,426 – 48,484 FB community – 6.56% adoption
So what can we take from this?

• Do people in smaller communities rural people understand relationships better than urban people? It would seem that there has to be something to this. This isn’t a new idea and it is something that I have heard batted around in the past and I think that this puts some numbers to it.

• Are the smaller communities going to be the best prepared for a future that is based on social media and social interaction? I think that smaller communities are open to any technology that bridge the distance between people.

• What can business learn from this? Join in … become part of these conversations ? Start a business group for your office or company. Use this as a tool.

• What should government learn from this? Government should learn one thing ….quite wasting your our money on failing community portals. (I am looking at you my www.sudbury.ca)

The adoption for Facebook continues to increase in every single community that I referenced. In the writing of this i had to go back and look at the numbers as i had let this sit for a few days What is the limit? Will any of these communities see 50% adoption?

(In the 30 minutes that I have been writing this Sudbury Group is +18 to 34,048. I suggest revisiting the network pages to see the growth for your network)

I am glad to see that I am not alone in my addiction to FaceBook. My only suggestion ‘come on man try it ….everyone is doing it’

Cheers

Scott ‘FB Junkie’ Brooks

Posted in Canada, Facebook ~ 6 Comments
Written by Scott

We are showing a first look at the video/audio interface we will be opening up shortly. Basically you will have all the functionaility currently available for commenting on visual including the newly added Text Tool, except they will per frame.

Comments can actually fade up a bit early and show for an adjustable length of time. Adjust the handles on either side of the green bar on the timeline to indicate the time the comment shows during play back. Comments will show up as little flags so you can choose navigate the comments in the sequence they appear in the video.

Audio review will work pretty much the same as video, however instead of the video frames you will be able to point out and illustrate on a visual waveform. This way  you can point out audio ‘pops’ and crackles to adjust for example.

This should be rolling out shortly over the next few weeks with Adobe Flash SWF import to follow soon after that.

Have fun!

Bernie

Posted in ConceptShare, Technology, Tools, Video ~ 5 Comments
Written by Bernie