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The Social Media Lifestyle

Dec 15, 2008

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteI believe I’m living the social media lifestyle, that is that wherever I go I have both my mobile phone and my ipod touch. As a result I am never more than a hotspot away from the world wide web and it’s content. In Switzerland I’m online as I hike through…

The Social Media Autumn

Oct 22, 2008

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in observation

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLiz Strauss wrote about the leaves and the trees and that got me thinking of the Social Media autumn. It’s the time of the year when everyone gets back to work after summer and they no longer have as much time to be sociable, whether online or offline and as the…

The Francofous like to migrate

Oct 9, 2008

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in observation, seesmic, social media

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Francofous are part of the seesmic community and can be differentiated by their ability to speak french and their avatars. Originally formed around Seesmic and twitter they are now migrating to both plurk and phreadz, two services I have talked about in the past. What is nice about this community…

Shuttle Launch as seen from a plane

Aug 26, 2008

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in observation

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome video of a shuttle Launch as seen from an Air Canada flight. Turn off sound, it’s better without.

replaced mother boards, the n95, press accreditations and qik

Jun 6, 2008

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in fun, mobile streaming, N95, observation, social media, work

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBecause every day is not the same this one has been quite normal. At eleven in the morning I found out that the motherboard for the macbook pro needed replacing and this should be accomplished by Tuesday. In second the day of work was a good one so I was energetic…

10 megabits per second on I-HSPA

May 9, 2008

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in observation, tech related

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMobile data transfer is speeding up 10.1 Megabits per second over I-HSPA. Nokia Siemens Networks, a provider of mobile broadband solutions, completed tests with Mobilkom Austria recently testing its new I-HSPA solution. The call, conducted with an unspecified mobile device, reached downlink data speeds of up to 10.1 Mbps during the…

Shifting away from early adoption

May 3, 2008

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in observation

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s no one in Europe using brightkite yet but I’m there and I see that no one is in the vicinity. That’s because there’s a huge amount of attention on what the US is doing and not much left on what Europe is doing. It’s a simple website to tell people…

Twitter as a way of life

Apr 14, 2008

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in London, mobile streaming, observation, social media, social networking, tech related, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesTwitter is not a social network, rather it’s a way of life. The more you use Twitter the further it gets into your way of life. It allows you to follow current affairs, geek out about social media and keep in touch with friends that uses the social network. What’s more it’s…

Videocamp, Paris

Apr 9, 2008

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in fun, N95, observation, social media, traffic

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few days ago I was in Paris to meet the Francofous and in the process I passed by La Cantine where they were holding a Videocamp. It’s like a barcamp but rather than talking about radio and podcastng people talked about peer to peer video sharing, citizen journalism and other…

On the importance of observation in Social Media marketing.

Mar 22, 2008

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in observation, social media, social networking, tech related

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHowever, many purported Social Media experts are merely engaging in cultural voyeurism at best. They look from afar and roam the perimeters of online societies without ever becoming a true member of any society. This means, they donâ€™t truly understand what, where, or why theyâ€™re â€œparticipating,â€ only jumping in because they…

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