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Category: social media

  • To Maggie and Chris I dedicate my 600th Blog Post

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTo Maggie and Chris I dedicate this, my 600th blog post as you are now in Florida, engaged and planning the rest of your life together. We have exchanged hundreds of messages over the past year and it’s been fun. Now the dynamics have progressed and in so doing why not…

  • Falling for Friendfeed

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFriendfeed is an interesting service I never wanted to use because I prefered Jaiku but recently that feeling has changed. As I saw Scoble speak more and more about how good friendfeed was I began to think that maybe it’s time to try the service, to see what it’s about and…

  • Twitter and it’s fourty minute delay

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday twitter has reminded me of why I dislike how it’s managed. With the big Mac World event and CES twitter is down, for the count. The problem is that these crafty people have decided that rather than take the site down completely they would let it lag. As a consequence…

  • TwitterFriends

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwitterfriends is another of those interesting tools to see who you converse with most on twitter. You can see who replies to you most, who you reply to most, the sphere of influence and more. As a result it’s a good tool with which to establish who are the interesting people…

  • Tweetgrid – a tool to make sense of it.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday someone twittered about tweetgrid, a simple to use web interface that allows you to see, in real time what people are tweeting about. It filters as many key words to chose and dedicates one portion of the screen per word. If you select four words then you can watch as…

  • 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…