Awesome Social Stuff – Week of 8.15 – 8.19

Floppy Portrait by Nick Gentry

Stats

Scanapalooza: QR Codes
What it is
An infographic depicting how people are interacting with QR codes.

Why it matters
Though QR codes have been used for almost a year, they are gaining popularity and starting to appear everywhere from advertisements to museum exhibits.  Based on the research used for this infographic, 42% of people know what a QR code is. Of that percentage, 67% have scanned them.  Now that QR codes are becoming more recognized,

Awesome Social Stuff – Week of 7.18 – 7.22.11

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New Startup

Pictarine

What it is

Create Albums from Instagram, Twitter & Facebook Photos with Pictarine. Pictarine is a website that lets you enjoy and share all your photos in one place.  Mix and match photos from different services to create shareable albums.

Why it matters

After first-time users authenticate each of their photo site accounts, Pictarine collects their photos, and auto-sorts them into albums by service, while also maintaining third-party site album structure. The service

Awesome Social Stuff – Week of 7.11 – 7.15.11

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Shame on me for not posting this on Friday – I guess I was too excited for Pitchfork Music Fest.

Partnership Spotlight

Coca-Cola Offers Twitter followers free Spotify subscriptions

 

What it is

Coca-Cola is offering a sweet deal for its Twitter followers: free Spotify subscriptions. Spotify is an award-winning digital music service popular in Europe.  Yesterday it was announced that Sppotify would launch in the U.S. Free trial memberships were hard to come by Klout, Chevrolet and Coca-Cola partnered to deliver free accounts to followers.

Why it matters