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The twitter colour wars and sheep mentality

Mar 23, 2008

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs if zombie slaying, vampire biting and sheep throwing weren’t enough the facebook lunacy has reached Twitter via Zefrank and the stupid colour wars. As if the conversation was not interesting and fulfilling enough for twitter users there is now a movement to create a colour war encouraging people to split…

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…

A really good conversation from TWiM

Mar 22, 2008

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in social media, tech related

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis Week in Media 85 is an interesting conversation about media news for the past week with a technological slant. This week’s interesting is particularly interesting as it explored the future of television and how people consume media. From the PVR and the ability for people to discuss the content they…

Socialthing aggregating several websites at once.

Mar 22, 2008

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in social media, social networking, tech related

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m active on more social networks than I have time to go through in a day and that’s where Socialthing comes in. It allows me to follow news from facebook, twitter, pownce, tumblr, flickr, vimeo and livejournal. What I like about this site is how easy it is to see everything…

The youtube application on the N95

Mar 22, 2008

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in cameras, social media, tech related

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor those of you with good data packages an application that could be a lot of fun is youtube on the n95. I was out and about and decided to check the youtube site and I was given the option to download their beta. I managed to play vides but I…

The Nokia N95 and some fun to be had.

Mar 15, 2008

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richard

in cameras, seesmic, social media, tech related, Uncategorized

Reading Time: 2 minutesSeesmic’ favourite phone at the moment appears to be the Nokia N95 and after months of thinking about whether to get the Iphone or the Nokia I turned to the Nokia because of everything it allows you to do. It’s a GPS, web streaming camera, time lapse camera, e-mail and web browser…

Did I mention I’m up to twenty thousand tweets

Mar 10, 2008

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in social media, twitter, warzabidul, work

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDid I mention that I got all the way up to twenty thousand tweets last night? I’m officially a very heavy user of twitter and many people celebrated the event with me in true twitter style. They @ed me. It’s not everyday you get to that number. I also seesmiced a…

Joke of the day

Feb 29, 2008

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richard

in twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteApologies if the site has been slow or intermittently available. We were having an issue with a new database, but it’s been fixed. Twitter Status So they’re going to start apologizing for the site being up now?

Twitter – Forget individuals, follow their community instead

Feb 22, 2008

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in social media, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor you to understand what people are talking about on twitter there is one thing you should know. When you follow Dacort, Loudmouthman, loic Lemeur, Jeff Pulver or many other people including me you’ve got to follow those that they are talking to as well as those that are listening. By this…

The twitter back channels

Feb 21, 2008

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in facebook, seesmic, social media, twitter

Reading Time: 3 minutesTwitter is one of those places that takes some time to get the hang of but once you do it’s going to suck you in and won’t spit you out till you’re exhausted. It’s a little bit like seesmic except that in this case you don’t look like you’re so in love…

Category: social media