Archive for June, 2008

Apply yourself socially

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Social applications are where things are at, well to degree at least. And despite this, many would still suggest that when it comes to business models, the social application market is yet to demonstrate one that is tried and tested.
Now, whether this is the case is an argument for another day. As RockYou, the company [...]


Sam Chimes, June 26th, 2008
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Plurk-ing hell, it’s another Twitter alternative!

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What with recent downtime on everyone’s* favourite micro-blogging site Twitter, we thought we’d bring you yet another site designed for keeping in touch with 140 character sized slices of life.
Readers meet Plurk, micro-blogging with a prefix and karma. The prefix can be any number of words from ‘says’, ‘wants’, ‘hates’, etc. So you could say, [...]


Sam Chimes, June 24th, 2008
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Social Media flood

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ReadWriteWeb has taken a stand and begun to wade through the ever rising tide of Social Media venues, apps and tools that want to connect you. At the centre of this discussion is speculation on when we’ll have that one site/app that’ll pull our Social Media personas together.
With so much out there, the lost at [...]


Sam Chimes, June 17th, 2008
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Brand Spanking

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As a response to the excellent BrandTag, Jane of Dear Jane Sample blog came up with the clever idea of presenting her daily routine – using only brand logos.
It is a concept-and-a-half, and surprisingly accurate and easy to read with each logo being so easily associated with a particular activity, there is no difficulty in [...]


Sam Chimes, June 13th, 2008
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Badge overload!

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With a badge for each and every social bookmarking site an option, avoiding the bottom of your post looking like the arm of a dedicated boy scout is a concern that must be addressed by the discerning blogger.
This is a problem that Aza Raskin decided to address, and has done so rather successfully by all [...]


Sam Chimes, June 11th, 2008
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Zombie bloody zombie

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Zombies are registering highly on the popular horror-monster hierachy and as such are over-running the film industry in a similar manner to which they dominated a certain, well-used social network. However, there is no such zombie-fatigue as witnessed within facebook occurring in the moving picture business.
It is maybe this continuing interest that has encouraged Lost [...]


Sam Chimes, June 9th, 2008
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Baby mommas are bloggers

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Mashable has been talking about mothers online and how the ever-expanding internet user base is a demographic in constant flux. Specifically, new born babies entering the world in a blaze of social media glory. An example is Mena Trott’s dedication to the art of blogging as she updated her readers via her mobile phone from [...]


Sam Chimes, June 6th, 2008
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An emotional twist

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Back in the gloom of February we featured on this very blog the glorious We Feel Fine. An excellent example of frivolous, yet brilliant Social Media utilisation, the site allowed you to spend longer than you intended gauging the emotion of the blogosphere.
Well, in its wake comes Twistori, a simple, aesthetically pleasant site that pulls [...]


Sam Chimes, June 5th, 2008
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