Archive for August, 2008

Put yourself in the Pikchur

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As your social media presence builds taking in more and more venues and services, staying on top can be a bit of an issue. Especially as you start having to be selective with where you put things or spend hours syndicating the same content. There are tools designed to [...]


Sam Chimes, August 29th, 2008
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Spam you all to hell!

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Read Write Web is appalled (as are we) at the news that apparently 29% of web using types have bought something as a result of spam email. Can this be true?

I’ve finished the opening paragraph with a question that I can’t actually answer. Nevertheless, it’s the only response viable to such a claim. What’s worse [...]


Sam Chimes, August 20th, 2008
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The way to go!

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Ok, so you’re in New York and you’re hurting. You just got to get to a bathroom, or the world as you know it may end. Fear not, whip out the mobile and jump on Diaroogle.
The odd named website site follows the same premise as MizPee, unbelievably there are two sites (in fact probably [...]


Sam Chimes, August 18th, 2008
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Social network heat map

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Via Pingdom using Google Insight data on regional trends. Cool mapping of searches for the most prominent social networking sites.
http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=336
On a sillier front, check out the importance of ‘The Hoff‘ to Estonians or America’s cheeseburger fascination.


Mike Davison, August 15th, 2008
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Niche = Passionate

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If you want to embrace the passionate then you could do a lot worse than getting involved in a niche social network.
Sneakerplay is a social network like any other, you have a profile, you hook up with your pals, upload pictures, let everyone know what you’re listening to and maintain a status among other things. [...]


Sam Chimes, August 15th, 2008
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Orwell online

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Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Orwell Diaries; The Orwell Prize will be serialising them as a blog, opening up the author to those yet to read his most personal writing.
Each entry will be published online exactly 70 years after it was originally penned by Orwell. And they mean everything, August 10th’s entry, “Drizzly. [...]


Sam Chimes, August 15th, 2008
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Rafe needs saving!

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Struggling to keep up is arguably part of the deal for those at the exposed edge of social media. Then, once submerged one must find the time to invest. Attention is equal to reward, hopefully. Reacting to such a scenario is Rafe Needleman, Webware contributor and current sinker, in the wild and varied sea of [...]


Sam Chimes, August 5th, 2008
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Look with your eyes, then bookmark with these ‘cool sites’

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RWW has, courtesy of writer Corvida, put together three ‘cool sites’ that allow you to bookmark all the hip imagery you pass your eyes over while travelling cyberspace. Why does no-one call the interweb cyberspace anymore? As she points out, the web is evolving, just like our surfing habits and the race is on for [...]


Sam Chimes, August 4th, 2008
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