Daphne Maia

 

We started publishing our reports on Social, Digital and Mobile in Asia on SlideShare just 6 weeks ago, and in that time, they’ve been viewed more than 125,000 times.

However, there may be times when you want to make quick reference to the reports, so today we’re making them all available for free download.

All we ask in return is a tweet that links to this post to let others know about the reports too. We’ve even made tweeting simple though – just click on the button below, and it will create a tweet for you:

 

And here are the download links for each report:

Asia Regional Overview
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
China
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Japan
South Korea
Laos
Macau
Malaysia
The Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
Pakistan
The Philippines
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam

Really useful set of data for marketers to use, although I always have a problem trying to get more out of the numbers.

If the atrocious illiteracy of the average Internet commenter has ever driven you to anger, frustration, or violent homicidal thoughts, you'll love this series of Internet CAPTCHAs, created by Matthew Baldwin. By requiring you to discern from various sets of simple but somehow commonly mistaken words just to be allowed online, these CAPTCHAs would rapidly rid the web of phrases like "Your an idiot" and "I'm definately getting Nickelback tickets." We dream of a day when this Internet entrance exam is mandatory, creating a grammatically sound, idiot-free online experience for the four of us who actually pass it.

Here are several of the other word options you might encounter when taking it, followed by the screen that greets you if you fail.

Saw this on GlishClub's Twitter, and thought it was hilarious! Please share this with all the grammar geeks you know! ;)

Brush-painting, finger-painting, basketball-painting... wait whaaat?

Pretty cool. :)

— You can change privacy settings on individual items to control who has access. You might want to narrow embarrassing photos to your closest friends or delete some posts completely, or at least hide them so only you can see them.

— You can change the date on a post. For example, if you took a few months to post photos from a trip to Portugal, you can move them to appear with other posts from the time you took that trip. You can also add where you were, retroactively using a location feature that Facebook hadn't offered until recently.

— For major events in your life, you can click on a star to feature them more prominently. You can hide the posts you'd rather not showcase.

— Besides your traditional profile photo — your headshot — you can add what Facebook calls a cover photo. It's the image that will splash across the top and can be a dog, a hobby or anything else that reflects who you are. Keep in mind the dimensions are more like a movie screen than a traditional photo, so a close-up portrait of your face won't work well, but one of you lying horizontally will. But you don't even have to be in it.

— You can add things before you joined Facebook, back to when you were born. Life events can include when you broke your arm and whom you were with then, or when you spoke your first word or got a tattoo. You can add photos from childhood or high school as well.

— If you feel overwhelmed with so many posts to go through, start with your older ones. Those are the ones you'd need to be most careful about because you had reason to believe only a few friends would see them.

— Click on Activity Log to see all of your posts at a glance and make changes to them one by one. Open Facebook in a new browser tab first, though. That way, you can have one tab for the log and the other for the main Timeline.

I actually really do like Facebook Timeline. Do you?

Psst. If you haven't seen this, you can get 50 free name cards designed based on your Facebook Timeline layout. Click here!

Really easy to do. Here's what mine looks like!

Outline
Message appearing on Facebook claims that users can receive a free Shell Gas Card worth $100 by clicking a link in the post.

Analysis
The message is not an official Shell promotion. The message is a typical survey scam. Users who fall for the ruse and follow the link will first be tricked into spamming the same fake promotion to their friends by "liking" and "sharing" the bogus Shell promotions page. Next, they will be told they must complete a survey or offer before receiving their free gas card. Some of the "survey" pages ask users to provide personal information including name, address and contact details, ostensibly to allow them to go in the draw for a prize. Others invite them to download dubious toolbars, games or software. Still others will claim that users must provide their mobile phone number - thereby subscribing to absurdly expensive text messaging services - in order to get the results of a survey or go in the running for a prize.

No matter how many offers or surveys they complete, or what services they subscribe to, victims will never receive their promised gas cards.

The scammers who create these bogus promotions will earn commissions via suspect affiliate marketing schemes each and every time a victim completes an offer or participates in a survey. Victims may also be faced with large phone bills for unwanted mobile phone services and, because they have provided name and contact details, they may be inundated with unwanted promotional emails, phone calls and junk mail.

Shell Gas has no involvement with this bogus promotion. If one of these spam messages appears on your Facebook wall, delete it and do not click on any links that it contains.

Example

Free $100.00 Shell Gas Card!! (limited time only)
[Link Removed]
Shell is currently giving away $100.00 gas cards to all facebook users!!

Yes. All of you who keep falling for the "Free $XXX gift card" scam, stop it already!

Look at the URL. Does it even look real to you? Do you think Shell, Starbucks, Amazon and other companies will offer free gift cards on websites that are not their official sites? And if you actually paid money to buy something to get that free gift card, you're a complete sucker. HAHAHA. Cancel all your credit cards now, you're a danger to yourself.