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Moving and sharing
Many years ago, the best you could do to connect your site to another site was through adding links. Plain old hyperlinks to other web sites – the stuff that made the web the web. And then things became a little fancier and you could host a form on your site to allow people to...
Leaving the best to Last
If Last.FM was a school kid, its report card would state “a quiet achiever”. Not at all like its classmate, brash, noisy and precocious Facebook. But though Last.FM rarely makes the headlines, I think it actually offers more value for its users. Facebook is interesting. So you can pop in, check out your mates, see...
Life is tweet
I’ve been spending a bit of time this week getting my head around Twitter. I read somewhere recently that its the fastest growing website at the moment so I wanted to figure out how it works and why it is so popular – and also how it really differs from social networks like Facebook. And...
Why I write a blog
Lately I have been spending as much time talking about why I write my blog as I do actually writing it. Its interesting – I am having these conversations with all sorts of people – old friends, current and past work mates, people I meet for the first time, even family members. Some people are...
3 new social media friends
HTML5, microformats and next generation search – 3 things which you should probably become acquainted with this year if you work in the area of social media or web development. Why? Because they are crucial to driving forward their adoption. Peter Kim recently did some research into Social Media Predictions for 2009 – here is...
Its still about the content
A while ago, I bought one of those Creative VADO videocams. Really cool gadget, great for creating short clips and publishing them to the likes of YouTube for sharing. If you have good content to film, of course. And that’s the problem with user-generated content. The web is filled with rubbish – videos of pets...
Change
This morning I saw a story on CNN about change.gov. It’s a website set up by the Obama transition team to harvest ideas and feedback on their policies, priorities and so on. When browsing for it, I accidentally discovered another “change” website. This one is change.org, calling itself a “social action network”. The great thing...
A peoples history
The anniversary of Sept 11 this week got me thinking about how far we’ve come in only 7 years with the use of web 2.0 tools and methods for sharing information. Back then, I think the media coverage was measured by how quickly organisations could update their web pages, capture and show film footage and...
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