Chris Messina makes an interesting proposal to improve microsyntaxis in Twitter, in particular the way we do retweets, include other people in a conversation and cite other people:

Change the RT: or the (via @user) to: /via @user — is more descriptive and you save one character in the second case.
Start using /cc @usuario to include somebody else t [...]

Nice video with a lot of information and facts about the impact of social media in our lives this day.

Today we’re full of digital distractions: Twitter, email, Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Skype and a lot of websites and services.

This is the topic of one of the latest graphics from InformationIsBeautiful. In this gaphic, a pyramid shows the different distractions sorted in hierarchy, where the upper part shows the most important service/social network.

This year there was a big fuss over Ikea’s decision to switch its catalogue font from Futura to the more practical (and cheaper) Verdana. The discussion is now known as the “Verdanagate”.

The interesting part of this is that the fuss itself brought interesting topics to discuss such as if passionate fans are worth listening to. Social media such as Twitter and Facebook are certainly important and can have great impact on customer’s decisions and perception over a company. But how much should companies listen to all the hype?