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Facebook Enables Inline Translation

Found this one last Friday.  I noticed that you can now do inline translation in Facebook, really helpful if you’re following a bunch of Best Practice Pages in different languages  As far as I can tell, it’s for Posts from Pages done in a different Language to your Language Setting can now be translated.  The option doesn’t appear on where the Language is the same.

Anyone seeing a different type of translation on Facebook?

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PS:  When clicking through to making the translation better, I just got caught in a loop.

 

100% Panama Los Lajones from @sokamsterdam

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Recently picked up a great coffee from the SOK Summer Espresso Lab in Amsterdam (more details below).  This picture is me trying head to head syphon vs. woodneck.  I didn't take any notes of the outcome as I was just enjoying the experience.

SOK Summer Espresso Lab
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Following on from last summer's Stumptown popup, this year we see a homegrown affair in the Jordaan area of Amsterdam popup.  SOK Summer Espresso Lab is owned and run by Dutch coffee scenesters Sander Schat, Onno van Zanten and Kees Kraakman.  In their words:

An Espresso Bar in which coffee is pushed to the max from March 2011 until September 2011. Our goal is to learn from every coffee we can get our hands on. With our Synesso or all other different brew methods. It sounds a bit geeky, and to be honest, it is. But, you're guaranteed every coffee you'll at SOK is one to enjoy!

I love the fact that one of the partners is the roaster so able to make daily adjustments all to get the best out of the beans.

You can find more about SOK Summer Espresso Lab here:

 Facebook Page | Place

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Website

And here's a Map link:

 

RIP the Company Website, Long Live Atomised Digital Outposts

In a keynote at the Technology for Marketers event in London in early March 2011.  Facebook’s UK Commercial Director, Stephen Haines provided the following amazing set of statistics, highlighting the difference in monthly visitors to some top brands Facebook Page vs. their Website.

Brand          Facebook   Website
Starbucks     21m            1.8m
Coke            20m            270k
Oreo            10m            290k
Dr. Pepper     4m            325k

This is especially powerful as I would venture to suggest that it doesn't include specific post impressions and the corresponding social impressions.

I don't believe that Websites are quite dead but I do believe that investment in them should be scaled down and companies should be looking to have an infrastructure that enables them to engage in a distributed web.  That is, talk to folks where they are, rather than entice them with cheese to enter your mousetrap.

A whole heap of links about Facebook stats (traffic, revenue)

http://gigaom.com/2010/02/15/facebook-driving-more-traffic-than-google/

 

http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-surges-toward-650-million-users-2011-01

 

http://mashable.com/2010/11/19/facebook-traffic-stats/

 

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/67e89ae8-30f7-11df-b057-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1BOYmjpPS

 

http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=148236

 

http://mashable.com/2010/12/16/facebook-2-billion-revenue/

 

http://mashable.com/2010/11/08/comscore-display-ads/

 

http://mashable.com/2010/05/12/facebook-banner-ads/

 

http://mashable.com/2011/01/17/facebooks-ad-revenue-hit-1-86b-for-2010/

 

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/06/facebook-versus-google-circa-2004/

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70359V20110106

 

http://www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/facebook-was-the-top-search-term-in-2010-for-sec/

 

http://www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/facebook-was-the-top-search-term-in-2010-for-sec/

 

http://mashable.com/2010/11/18/facebook-comscore-growth-october/

 

http://weblogs.hitwise.com/heather-dougherty/2010/11/facebookcom_generates_nearly_1_1.html

 

http://www.allfacebook.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-goldman-facebook-deal-2011-01

 

http://www.allfacebook.com/facebooks-valuation-224-billion-in-2013-2011-01

 

http://www.kerryonworld.com/internet/facebook-most-visited-site-according-to-hitwise

 

 

My new happy place is @notesmusiccoffee

I have written this a few times in my head and now that I am stuck in
snow traffic (4 hrs to travel 1 junction) I just need to come out and
declare that Notes, Music and Coffee is my new happy place.

So much to say about the great video + music collection and how it
makes me want to buy physical media again (well other than vinyl which
will be a habit hard to break) but the real winner is the team and
their passion for coffee.

Anyway, am on the move and so will send this and come back later for an edit.