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Cupcaking.us

December 30, 2010 - 7:29 pm

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Cupcaking.us is a slightly strange idea for a photosharing social app. You can share photos, videos, text and audio. But there’s a catch. You can only share with one other person. It’s essentially taking the idea that Path has pioneered in a social app with a concentrated network audience, and taken it to it’s logical [...]

Path adds Facebook. Instagr.am adds FourSquare.

December 21, 2010 - 11:26 am

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In a new update Path have attempted to fix the problem of needing to know everyone’s email addresses by adding Facebook Connect integration. It’s a wise move. When I first registered on the network the difficulty of adding people was my main complaint, and I imagine it was other people’s too. Good one Path. That’s [...]

Facebook in 2010

December 16, 2010 - 10:43 am

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It’s been a pretty good year for Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. Not only did he win Time Person of the Year* and sign up to give away half his fortune, his company generated some pretty staggering numbers: Facebook in 2010 Pageviews = ~ 2.7 trillion The number of page views on Facebook.com is a bit [...]

The ads are coming.

December 15, 2010 - 10:07 am

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Twitter has updated it’s business website to include a form to register interest in buying adverts promoted content. The make up of the form makes it clear that that, for the time being at least, Twitter are targetting major advertisers and brands. The lowest option for “Monthly Budget” is “< $10,000″. Another interesting point of [...]

The Buzzword for 2011: “Magazine”

December 13, 2010 - 11:23 am

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Pinning down the number one theme for 2010 is a bit hard. “Cataloguing” certainly came to the fore; “social” grew up a bit; “semantic”, “Web 3.0″ and “cloud” were mentioned a lot, and “curation” started to hit the radar towards the end. For me none of those were really the defining buzzword for the year [...]

Threadspotting

December 8, 2010 - 3:18 pm

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Location check-in websites have started becoming pretty popular over the last year or so. Most of us have at least heard of Foursquare and Gowalla, and perhaps Facebook Places and the Google backed SCVNGR. Where you are is an obvious thing to catalogue. Those sites work*. More recently other sorts of check-in sites have cropped [...]

TwitTip: The right reply.

December 6, 2010 - 2:04 pm

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It’s lovely when we get a nice complimentary message on Twitter, and lovelier still to say thank you to whoever sent it. But next time you do, take a moment to craft your tweet for maximum impact. There are 3 levels of messages on Twitter. There’s the DM (Direct Message), public reply, and public message. [...]

Social Networking 101: It’s not about you.

December 6, 2010 - 9:44 am

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The definition of the word “social” is interesting. For something to be “social” it should be aware of the collective co-existance of other organisms. That’s certainly very interesting as far as anthropology goes, but how does it apply to a business using social media? Many businesses use social networking as a way to get their [...]

Does Twitter need advertising?

December 3, 2010 - 10:52 am

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Recently Twitter has started rolling out it’s “Promoted” features. Promoted accounts appear in user’s “Who to follow” suggestions, Promoted trends appear in the trending topics section, and Promoted tweets appear in timelines and searches. Obviously all of those things generate revenue for Twitter. They bring in quite substantial amounts too. A worldwide promoted trend can [...]

The Right Way To Get Things Wrong.

October 6, 2010 - 11:45 am

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“The website is down.” That’s an all too familiar message. Errors on websites are still shockingly common. And what the user sees when your website is suffering an outage of some description, be it a server error, a missing page, or simply the user getting something wrong should be a big concern in your life [...]