I want one..now. I’ll take a WildCharger for Christmas – Lay your devices on it and it charges all your batteries. Via PSFK
MySpace Support Time
After my little problem on MySpace a couple of weeks ago, I finally got back a response to the Report Abuse emails I get, a boiler plate response that tells me to block the offender. So why bother reporting in the first place? In contrast to this, take a look at the Flickr support process, […]
Beach House
Beach House, originally uploaded by RachelC. As the office did well in the inter-office review last year, it got some corporate money to reward its employees. Instead of throwing a party, it hired a house in Westhampton Beach for the summer and we get to go for a few days. So this weekend is my […]
Flickr and Censorship
Flickr have been having a rough ride lately when it comes to claims of censorship. From the introduction of filters to the banning from China and today additional filters in 4 countries based on local Terms of Service. As a product, I love Flickr, I’ve never had any issues with it. But the reality of […]
Mahalo now for you too
Jason Calacanis’ new search engine Mahalo expands today, with Mahalo Greenhouse. You can apply to be a ‘part-time guide’, submit search entries and get paid for doing so, $10-15 but only if you are a US citizen or permanent resident. I’m neither but still work and pay taxes in the US – so I think […]
Blogher 07 and Scrapblog
Interested in going to Blogher07. Scrapblog have joined forces with the conference to offer an all-expenses paid trip to the conference for two. But only in North America – I wish these competitions for web based companies which are global in their vary nature would make these restrictions clear on the main page and not […]
There’s no local
I was listening to local radio this morning. Local radio in this case being Leith FM and the lunchtime show provided by Ewan Spence. Through the power of the internet streaming the show and through the connections Ewan has around the world, he had listeners from San Francisco, New York, New Zealand and London. What […]
Behind the Buzz 12 June
Just a small cross posting about the other blog. There are lots (and lots) of posts from Carson Systems Future of Online Advertising, all ‘liveblogged’ or close enough. Here’s the conference category with all the posts. There’s also a review of Court TV’s Save My Husband, an Alternate Reality Game, and what can go wrong […]
MySpace Stalking
I had an interesting if slightly worrying experience last week with MySpace. A case of mistaken identity, I received 11 MySpace mails over 2 days from someone I had no recollection of ever meeting. Not of reporting him to the cops, which the first email accused me of doing. I got cajoled to phone him, […]
Future of Online Advertising
I’m going to be at Carson System’s Future of Online Advertising over the next 2 days so I was checking their website. Not sure whether they had a timed page or if someone made an error promoting to live, but they still had all the faux latin on the site. It’s better this morning though. […]
MySpace design
Take a look at this MySpace profile from Alan Marchman to see what you can do with the system if you really try hard. (thanks David)
NY Tech Meetup
I went along to the NY Tech meetup last night and had a good time. Five short presentations from companies in the NY area, plus a couple of extras from James Hing of Hot or Not (who I also met with on Monday at an IAB event) and Dave Weinberger who gave a 10 minute […]
Do you speak kitteh?
The Globe and Mail, the Toronto paper, had a lovely piece on Thursday about the rise of kitteh, the ‘language’ found on the lolcatz images and the derivatives that have sprung up. Unfortunately I left the paper in the hotel and it’s behind a paywall on the site, although the article does appear to be […]
Behind the Buzz posts
If you’re not reading the marketing stuff on behindthebuzz.com, here’s some posts from the last few weeks you may be interested in: Mesh talks: Building a community, teaching new markets old tricks and an interview with Richard Edelman. Heinz have a new ‘create your own TV ad’ competition, but is it as effective an engagement […]
London 2012 Logo
The perils of user generated content, originally uploaded by Martin Deutsch. Cost of the Olympics: 9.36Billion GBP Cost of the New Logo: 400k GBP BBC news (and website) displaying a goatse reference: Priceless
Maid of the Mist
IMG_7171.JPG, originally uploaded by RachelC. I took a bus trip down to Niagara Falls today. A wet trip on the Maid of the Mist to get close to the falls, definitely a trip to take. An easy experience, no queues or anything for me, although I think I got there before the school groups as […]
Flickr loves you
isn’t that nice 😉
Loren Feldman
loren Feldman, originally uploaded by RachelC. Loren pulling a serious face at dinner last night. The photo where he was smiling was just a little too manic!
Mesh and Craigslist
Building a Web Business Mark Evans talks to Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster. Q: How do you guys operate? A: we have been in the same place for 7 years, we have 24 employees, 2/3 tech, rest customer service. we don;t try and give any message, the site is all about the users and it is […]
Mesh and The Future of Entertainment
The Future of Entertainment – “The People Formerly Known as the Audience” Jian Ghomeshi talks with McLean Mashingaidze-Greaves, Amber MacArthur and Ethan Kaplan. This primarliy focused on music..and DRM Jian: what is the biggest change in the last 12 months? Ethan: record sales are down, did not recover after holidays this time; there has been […]