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Like many Facebook members, I got tired of where Myspace page was going and the semiporn messages I was getting and people showing my page love (which I appreciated) but felt like I had outgrown. I saved a some pictures to my hard drive and moved on to Facebook. Years later, my biggest regret, is I still have a mysapce page up and wish there was a way I could download it and save those memories (Social Media Scrapbooking). Some how maybe even download it into a book. Whoa, low and behold I have two sources that can do just this for your Facebook Page. Check it out!
Website: www.yoursocialbook.com
Contact: yoursocialbook@gmail.com
Spotted by: Susan Hurwitz
Facebook users can already see their online content made tangible on real-world notebooks, mugs and photo albums. In fact, with Kodak’s Picture Kiosks, they can even print out their Facebook pictures at Target. Now adding to the mix is the SocialBook, a project currently seeking funding on Kickstarter that aims to bring the user’s whole Facebook experience into the concrete, physical world.
SocialBook — also known as “The Facebook Book” — is a personalized, 8.5-by-11-inch book that can be created from the status updates, published pictures, wall messages and comments shared between the user and as many as 10 selected Facebook friends. Pages in the SocialBook follow the chronological order of the user’s Facebook account, and its Facebook-blue cover — available in paperback or hardcover — is customized with the user’s Facebook account name. Pricing will depend on the length of the user’s Facebook history, ranging from USD 25 for paperback and USD 35 for hardcover for up to 6 months’ worth of online life (up to 50 pages) to USD 100 for paperback and USD 110 for hardcover when the user’s history spans two years or more (up to 400 pages). Sociams to raise USD 10,000 on Kickstarter each pledge can be counted as a pre-order for a Facebook Book of corresponding length. Shipping within the US is free.
Consumers’ social lives may be increasingly lived online, but that doesn’t mean the need for tangible offline evidence has disappeared. How can your brand help bridge the OFF=ON connection?
Website: www.socialmemories.de
Contact: support@socialmemories.de
Spotted by: Denise Kuperman
Deutsche Post DHL created in cooperation with creative agency Cosalux, Social Memories a Facebook application that turns users’ Facebook activity into a hardcover book with 28 glossy pages.
Now in beta, Social Memories aims to give Facebook users a way to preserve their virtual lives in physical form. Users of the app, which is available in both German and English, begin by specifying the timeframe they’d like their book to cover. A minimum of 10 uploaded photos and 10 status updates since June 2009 are required. Social Memories then scans and analyzes that Facebook activity, reproducing photographs as well as creating a range of infographics revealing highlights and trends. With a customizable color scheme, the resulting book can then be viewed online for free. If users choose to order a professionally bound copy, the price is EUR 19 plus shipping; worldwide delivery is available. The video below illustrates the premise in more detail:
There are other similar efforts out there as well — Egobook and BookofFame, for example — so users increasingly face a choice in this area. In which other areas can you offer a little ON=OFF innovation?
I love both of these sources. I hope they inspire you as well.
Information on these sources was received from my weekly feed to www.springwise.com (LOVE!)
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