Archive for March, 2008

Always up-to-date - FriendFeed

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With aggregating yourself online becoming an ever more desirable activity in which to partake, it is well worth investigating FriendFeed. The site allows all your updates across the ever-expanding mass of social networks to be collated within your ‘friendfeed’ that all your pals can subsequently subscribe to. This basically means they are far less likely [...]


Sam Chimes, March 31st, 2008
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Stand up and be Twitter-ed

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The popular micro-blogging platform has been taken as the core of Ze Frank’s latest online escapade, a Twitter war.
Named Colour Wars the concept despite being barely conceived, received a swell of interest and people eager to take part. A few of which exist in this very office! The current challenge is a bad-ass ro-sham-bo based [...]


Sam Chimes, March 30th, 2008
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Six education

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Microsoft Research during the month of June 2006 anonymously tracked all messenger activity. After analysing the data, it is apparently clear that we are all much more connected than one could possible imagine!
Actually, we’re about as connected as we thought previously. It is however nice to have it confirmed. Six degrees of separation is about [...]


Sam Chimes, March 26th, 2008
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THINK! of a viral

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THINK! and Transport London decided to mine the potential of viral marketing for their latest campaign attempting to get viewers to consider how aware they are as a driver.
If you are yet to see the campaign that speaks with a reserved assurance then it would be unfair of us to discuss it anymore, instead [...]


Sam Chimes, March 26th, 2008
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Socialising doesn’t have to be constructive

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If being nice to others just isn’t your angry bag, and you are thinking that social networks offer no purpose for your miserly ways, you are wrong.
Mashable have collected the best anti-social networks at your disposable to express hatred, name enemies and should you be in the mood, declare holy war on an individual. [...]


Sam Chimes, March 20th, 2008
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Perpetually LinkedIn

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Riding the mobile social network wave is something that is proving particularly popular right now, and LinkedIn is endeavouring to place itself on the crest.
So how would one describe the untethered web? Probably like LinkedIn’s European managing director Kevin Eyres - “quick” and “convenient”. It’s a good place to start.


Sam Chimes, March 19th, 2008
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Who’d have thought it? Girls love the web!

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The Times recently featured an article highlighting that in a particularly short period of time the amount of female net users has grown considerably. And while the increase is not unexpected, some of the statistics certainly are.
Paul Glazowski at Mashable points out the most interesting, such as the fact 70% of girls are operating a [...]


Sam Chimes, March 18th, 2008
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TagCrowd a useful tag cloud

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Daniel Steinbock, a doctoral student in Design and Education from Stanford, has developed TagCrowd. The site gives anyone the ability to generate a tag cloud from a slab of text, a specific document or, and most interestingly, a URL.
Entering the URL of a blog for instance, will immediately return a tag cloud, visual representation of [...]


Sam Chimes, March 16th, 2008
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Twings and roundabouts

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Never able to find what you need in a forum? Never able to find the right forum where the conversation relevant to you might be taking place? Then Twing could be your thing!
The beta release of the new forum search website will not only fire you into the heart of discussion on your desired hot [...]


Sam Chimes, March 14th, 2008
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Spank your chums all day!

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LinkSpank gives one and all the opportunity to share online content and use a website with a suggestive name. Working in a similar manner to Digg, without fully entering the arena of social bookmarking this site aims to serve as an online organised inbox, where amusing links can be kept and organised.
It doesn’t have oodles [...]


Sam Chimes, March 10th, 2008
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