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Social networking

A change of scenery

April 29, 2009Microsoft
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It’s been a little while since I posted here, so I thought I’d mention that I’ve been blogging over on Tech Repeater lately (RSS feed here). It hit the 50 posts milestone today, so I thought it might perhaps be of interest.
It’s mostly a fun side thing for now, although I do have some business [...]

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The Twitter Popularity Contest

March 12, 2009Main

I’ve been wondering what’s next after Twitter. Where are all the cool kids heading these days?
After all, it has become so mainstream now that the inevitable transformation from intimate community to marketing broadcast is all but complete. The vibe on Twitter has changed.
Yes I know, that’s what the Un-follow option is for, but that doesn’t [...]

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Microsoft Oxite coverage

December 14, 2008Link

Microsoft released Oxite last week, and it garnered a lot of press (most of it enthusiastic). The Oxite story is pretty nice, as it delivers a very simple CMS/blogging tool, and as bonus it is ASP.NET MVC based, giving .NET developers a good chance to get into understanding MVC in a useful sample manner.
However, [...]

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Facebook statistics

December 12, 2008Link

Nick Ellery’s post alerted me to the incredible Facebook statistics (about half way down the article) that are (probably) driving them into the ground. Here’s a taste: 300,000 images are uploaded to Facebook every second. How do you pay for the infrastructure that supports that? Or a trillion page views per year. That’s serious load. [...]

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Two little things

September 3, 2008Main

Andrew Coates on Facebook
If you are on Facebook, and haven’t already, please join the ‘Convince Andrew Coates to join Facebook’ group. We need 250 by this Friday afternoon. Click here to join.
TechEd Windows app for checking sessions :  What’s on Now?
Here’s the little Windows app I use for checking what sessions are currently on. It’s [...]

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OPINION: On Twitter and the death of blogging

July 19, 2008Main

When I first heard Jason Calacanis’ announcement about retiring from blogging last week I thought (like many) it was a joke. After all, he’s had considerable involvement in blogs over the years (cofounder of Weblogs Inc, etc). And leaving blogs to go to… email – well hello?
But no, it seems he’s serious, so it [...]

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Twitter versus Blogs

April 22, 2008Personal

I find it interesting that the more time I spend on Twitter, the less time I spend directly reading and writing blogs. The reason for this (besides the obvious time factor) is that I am finding more and more that most things I need to know are alerted to me via Twitter. This isn’t to [...]

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.NET OpenID project chugs away

April 10, 2008Link

There’s a lot of noise about OpenID (it’s great, we can’t live without it, it’s safer, it’s the future, etc, etc) but very little actually happening (in terms of real adoption). TechCrunch has had a few thought provoking posts on the matter – decide for yourself whether OpenID has become little more than a marketing [...]

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A little birdie told me

April 8, 2008Link

I’m only a Twitter newbie (ie less than 1000 tweets), so I haven’t yet tried to convert anyone over to it… but that said, I’ll happily point you to a post like this one from TechCrunch. The value in Twitter for me is simply this: immediacy of information. In a few months I’ll elaborate a [...]

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THOUGHT: When will recruiters take to Twitter?

March 31, 2008Main

These days it seems the best indication of when a particular social media source has reached it’s used by date is when recruiters are using it more than your ‘real’ connections
Take LinkedIn for example. A year ago, this was a valuable tool, allowing us all to connect to business associates. These days, [...]

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New version of OutTwit released

March 14, 2008Link

For all those people using OutTwit as your Twitter client (it basically brings Twitter into Outlook), you’ll be interested I’m sure to get the latest version (released yesterday).
The best things about this release (0.4.2.22) is that it pulls in all your replies. So, even if you’re offline for a few hours, once you reconnect it [...]

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Gangs using Social Networking to recruit

February 12, 2008Social networking

Yes, there are dangers to social networking, and this report outlining how gangs are targeting kids via social networking platforms is another to add to the list.
(via the Freakonomics blog)
Technorati Tags: Social networking

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Mesh networks coming to Sydney

February 12, 2008SBTUG

Last year the wonderful Laurel Papworth blew us away at SBTUG with a presentation on Social networking.
In the course of her presentation she mentioned the whole mesh network concept (eg Meraki). I truly had tingles down my spine when I heard about the concept.
Thanks to Laurel for this post in which she highlights the [...]

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Going back through my IE Favourites

February 3, 2008Social networking

Perhaps you're like me and find all these interesting things and then forget to investigate further. They get tucked into a Favourites Tab Group folder and forgotten about until a rainy Sunday afternoon (literally).
In my next few posts I'm go to clear out my 'must check that out later favourites folders' and link to stuff [...]

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MySpace comes up with a great idea – build a Developer platform

January 31, 2008Social networking

Here's an idea… if you have a Social Networking site, why not build an API that allows developers to build applications for it? Brilliant. MySpace certainly is leading the field with this revolutionary idea. Oh hang on, that's right, Facebook did that 8 months ago and now has over 15,000 apps built by devs. Hmmmm, [...]

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Facebook ‘Crush’ virus

January 20, 2008Social networking

Laurel Papworth alerted me to this little nasty. Beware of any Facebook apps claiming to inform you of users that have a crush on you… yeah right, as if you'd fall for anything like that
Technorati Tags: Facebook, Virus, Crush

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FACEBOOK: Is no more

December 14, 2007Social networking

Brace yourselves kiddies, because the rash of lame link-bait post titles like the one above has started.
For those not on Facebook, this will be meaningless, but for those who are, then you’ll have noticed that the mandatory ‘is’ from the status updates was removed* earlier this week. Yay! No more having to use ‘is’ [...]

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Great Wordpress themes

November 23, 2007Social networking

Only a few here, but they are all good. www.justskins.com
Technorati Tags: Wordpress themes

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MADNESS: I finally understand Ads

November 9, 2007Social networking

I’ve been scratching my head trying to work out why Facebook’s recent announcement about the Ad delivery is soooo important. In fact for months (years?) now I’ve been wondering what the fuss about online ads is?
After all, who ever sees any of these ads?
Turns out lots of people. Probably most people.
You see, I hardly ever [...]

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Google’s OpenSocial

November 2, 2007Social networking

Old news now of course but surely the most devastating/interesting/wonderful technology announcement this year. Scoble has a round up of all the best bits on the new Google OpenSocial API that every social networking site on the planet is signing up to.
Open Social is available here.
Plaxo, Ning, MySpace, Beebo, Six Apart, Orkut, Salesforce, [...]

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