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Not everything goes to plan. My World Cup journey ended in a bar in Washington DC, rather than Johannesburg.
While neither England or the USA exactly set the competition alight. Metia came away with more than a few extra fans.
Metia's Mobile Keepy Read More
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Having just returned from SXSW and MIX10, where geo-location, social technologies and user experience were all big topics of conversation, I arrived back in London to find Metia Labs has just finished the Near.me project.
Near.me uses the Foursquare Read More
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I was invited along to the Dachis Group's Social Business Summit 2010 held in Austin on the eve of SXSW. Jeff Dachis had gathered a great ensemble of speakers - including Read More
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There have been some considered and thoughtful posts on the implications of social media recently (and some silliness too).
I like these two viewpoints for inspiring intelligent discussion on some of the practical issues arising Read More
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Who let the human in the building?
In a slightly mind bending move Linden Labs, who built and run Second Life, acquired the Swedish company behind Avatars United, an online community for avatars, or more precisely, a community for the Read More
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There have been various pieces of analysis put forward to debunk the view that the web increases diversity, and to put forward the contrary view that it limits choice by fostering the herd instinct.
Now, e-Marketer has a post - Twitter Power Users Solidify Read More
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On Wednesday the New York Times had a piece on the unlikely but multi-billion dollar market for purchasing virtual goods for real cash - Asian Social Networking Sites Profit from Virtual Money.
Yesterday the Guardian's Victor Keegan had a post Read More
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Venerable UK journalistic institution, John Humphrys caused a kerfuffle around making his first tweet today - here on the BBC web site.
UK Govt got slammed (wrongly) for reportedly appointing a Twitter Tzar - here the story put to rights by Charles Arthur. Read More
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Charlene Li, now the sole employee of Altimeter Group, has produced a new report - free to download - correlating leading brands' level of engagement in social media and their value.
The report can be found here and explanatory post from Read More
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Harvard Business Publishing shared some research on Twitter usage last week. The data gave ammunition to PC World among others, to deflate the Twitter bubble, just a little bit at least.
According to David Coursey at PC World:
Across the 300,000 Read More
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I like Best Buy's idea to create Remix, an API for Best Buy product line information and price data. Basically, third parties can now incorporate the data into their own service offerings, extending the reach of Best Buy into new channels and services. Read More
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On the day that Britain's PR industry disappeared into it's own PR Week inspired Twitter maelstrom, some Social media demographics from Brainz, sort of.
Here's the view on Twitter. There is truth in their irony. Read More
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The Forrester posse is full of their new report on B2B buyers use of social media.
Josh Bernoff says:
"If you're a B2B marketer and you're not using social technologies in your marketing, this report means you're late."
"This is your chance to stand Read More
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Nothing like a spot of snow to get people Twittering, Flickring and Mashing.
On the other hand Belle (see below) and I are too busy scouring the Chiltern hedgerows looking for stranded commuters to write it up, so take a look at Ben Marsh's nifty Read More
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