You will, I hope, have seen Darren’s Get a First Life site, a call for people everywhere to sign up and try some of this real life stuff; you have to scroll down to comment 16 to get the real social impact of this, with Linden Labs posting their take on it and giving a […]
SXSW NYC drinks and Social Media Club
In between work, I managed to get out to two interesting gatherings this week. The first was a pre-SXSW reception for people who have been to SXSW or are planning to go. For a couple of hours we got to gather and socialise, making new acquaintances to chat to when to get to Austin. The […]
WordPress Upgrade to 2.1
Well, everything appears to be working with the upgrade. I’m keeping my fingers crossed though.
Search update
I love looking at the search terms that get people to my site. Today we have a specific target in mind, with the person who got to me with “can you put porn on myspace” where I make the top 10 in google. In answer to this, I have no idea. I know it seems […]
BarCamp London 2
Ian’s updated the BarCamp London information and spaces are going quickly by the look of it. The main sponsor is BT, who are providing the venue and the wifi. Get over here and sign up! Update: The sign-up went live about 1pm GMT this morning and an hour latr about 60% of the places are […]
Sky and Timeshifting programmes
Sky is bar far the largest purveyor of DVR/time shifting services in the UK. A review of their service released last week shows that they have over 2 million boxes out there, with around 5million people using it – that’s around 8% of the UK population. As a long time user of TiVo, where the […]
SpecialK and Flash
Flash is commonly used with websites to bring life and movement, to bring entertainment and improve the experience. When used well, it really helps with telling the story and getting a message across. When used badly, it sucks. Kellogg’s Special K use of flash definitely falls into the latter category. It uses heavy flash to […]
Sneezing Panda
Thanks for Tom for pointing to this. It’s just so cute.
Geni – a living family tree
Geni, a new venture from ‘former executives and early employees of PayPal, Yahoo! Groups, Ebay, and Tribe’ is a different take on social networks, using the hook of family history and genealogy to get users and connect people. But where it falls down with me is that it is focuses on living people; it’s not […]
Luck of Seven
Noel Hidalgo is trying something different with Luck of Seven. on the luck of seven is an open-source, around the world project by noel hidalgo (aka noneck). for seven months, he will visit the seven continents, sail the seven seas, and visit the seven ancient wonders of the world. Using a wiki, noneck will harness […]
Long Tail Music charts
The UK music charts have been opened up to the Long tail with the decision to count downloads whether or not there is also a physical copy of a single or available. A number of songs which charted last year or earlier were back in the charts last week and for the first time a […]
JWT Job Site
This is one of the more interesting job sites I’ve seen. It’s a very different take on the company I currently work for who are recruiting entry level people – are you Ready to Sell Your Soul?
Slingbox working
My dad’s finally got the router working at home and now I can log into the Slingbox and Tivo to watch and record Uk programmes. I love technology at times 😉
Widgetised
I’ve updated this theme so I’m now widgetised. Given my general flakiness with CSS and php, I think it’s all OK but not too sure. I’ve tested in Firefox 2 and IE 7 on the laptop; if anyone has other browsers can you take a look and see if the 3 column layout is retained?
Spam Phone calls
I have a landline (or at least a VoIP version of one). The only people who have the number are may parents. And the phone company. Who seem to have no problem giving that number to all and sundry resulting in a multitude of spam calls. Which I thought was not allowed. And the do […]
Searching for fractured neck symptoms
It looks like I’m currently the top search result on Google for ‘how do you know if you have a fractured neck’. I hope the person who came to my site after using that term ended up going to the doctor and getting an X-ray!
Behind the Buzz – the other blog
My other Blog, Behind the Buzz, is where I’m posting more and more of my marketing posts. It’s still not quite ready with the b5media styling, but as I’m busy posting anyway, here’s links to some of the stories on that site: Superbowl Madness: Both the NFL and Doritos chips are running campaigns to make […]
iPhone lawsuit
I guess Apple never got round to signing those licensing agreements with Cisco for use of their trademark term iPhone. And now they are suing. “Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco’s iPhone name,” said Mark Chandler, senior vice president and general counsel, Cisco. “There […]
iPhone reactions
To be honest, I’m not really into phones. I have a pretty good one for the UK, all 3g and live tv and browsing etc but the data plan sucked and it’s no use where I am. And my US phone is just about manages to phone and text, there nothing else really to it. […]
iphone Countdown
If you are determined to get one and you want to find out how long you have to wait – iphonecountdown.com has the numbers for you. From Mike via Dan.