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Category: social media

  • The idiocy of the Mobile flickr website (or why I hate Iphone optimised mobile websites)

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFlickr had a mobile website that worked well because it was developed for all mobile devices. As a result I was getting into the habit of taking pictures, amending the title and adding comments whilst on the move. Recently though, the mobile developers at Flickr decided to do what every narrow…

  • Le meur, Seesmic and some images

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst everyone that was present at the Paris Seesmeetup has gone home to their day to day lives the images taken are still doing the rounds. I noticed that two of my images were included in Loic Le meur’s blog. Normally all the Francofous should be able to name every shown.…

  • Blogobar Neuchatel

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the most amusing things about the blogobar meetup in Neuchatel was how many iphones were there. It was particularly amusing to see the time spent look at apps, trying to see which was the most fun. Of course we didn’t travel from various parts of Switzerland for that sole…

  • The Social Media Lifestyle

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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 and a documentary maker

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I had the pleasure of meeting Ornit Barkai, a documentary producer working on a documentary about the social media. Her project is one which I am particularly interested in because she is taking an exploratory approach through interviews to see what the social media are, She told me that she has…

  • A busy few days

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTomorrow I will be in Lausanne once more, this time to meet the people from Bloggy Friday. It’s Switzerland’s bloggers and social media types coming together for a chat and the traditional fondue (or so it’s been for the past few weeks) and an opportunity to hear about new projects. Last…

  • Ijustine, me and seesmic

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo face to face meeting but I appear in the seesmic plug by Ijustine for the Macbreak Episode . It’s quite amusing to see me in the same video clip as her 🙂

  • The Social media Misnomer

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I spent three hours chatting to people in Australia, Sweden and France via both twitter and plurk and it felt great and the reason for this is that it was personal. We hear so much and read even more about the social media and the social web but there is…

  • Twitter hoped for the best, fell down as a result.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYet again twitter hoped for the best and as a result went down for several hours. It’s a simple illustration of why I remain critical of the way twitter is run. What I love best is the “It’s a problem we knew about…”

  • The online digital self

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 1999 I decided that I would spend 21 days without touching a computer once. That’s because I was in Tanzania for a trip during which we helped to build schools for children in the area. I had decided to do that because so many spoke about the illness of spending too…