Archive for July, 2008

Apparently, it is actually for kids!

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My Yearbook is a social networking site aimed squarely at teens and despite its rather shameful tagline of ‘You’ve Got Friends’, it is popular. In fact, if social networks were like the cliques at school, My Yearbook would be the outsider upstart that defies his younger age by maintaining a cool demeanour. It’s the Ferris [...]


Sam Chimes, July 30th, 2008
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SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM… Lovely SPAM! Wonderful SPAM!

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So sung The Vikings in Monty Python’s infamous Spam skit, but for the majority of us with office, home and small business email accounts across the county, we’re seeing a whole heap more spam on the virtual menu.
“Kyle our specially designed replics [sic] look exactly like their highly expensive brand prototypes” proudly announces one [...]


Sam Chimes, July 22nd, 2008
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Google’s Lively – An exercise in real estate?

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Gigaom’s Alistair Croll has written a post on Google’s Lively, and in doing so offers a intriguing proposition – the possibility of Google as a realtor (or estate agent depending on which side of the Atlantic you happen to reside).
Although Lively, as Alistair points out, enters a market that is seemingly flooded leaving its [...]


Sam Chimes, July 10th, 2008
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Blog without, err… blogging

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Swurl aggregates social media presence, functioning under the same guise as FriendFeed, to name just one of the current options for getting your online life in one place. What makes the recently launched (in beta) Swurl a slightly different proposition in the space, is that it pulls everything together in the form of a blog. [...]


Sam Chimes, July 4th, 2008
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Tripwolf is a viable destination

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Tripwolf has launched in a public beta format. What is Tripwolf? It’s a social travel guide that allows users to get together and create trips, while offering features that make investigating possible destinations a breeze.
It is also possible to use a drag and drop feature with the places of interest on the site to [...]


Sam Chimes, July 1st, 2008
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