Category: General Entries
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Today, Biz Stone confirmed that Twitter has acquired Summize, which used to crawl online reviews and blog discussions to create summarized reviews of music, movies, books and more. Or so says CrunchBase. To be perfectly honest, I’d never heard to…
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User generated content is all the rage these days, and every company wants a piece of the action. Some companies understand this concept and act on it fabulously well, but others fail miserably at understanding the basic ethos of UGC.…
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The past few weeks have been pretty hectic at Pepperrell Mansion, and I realise personal updates have been few and far between (as my mom regularly reminds me). About three weeks ago, we had Tommy, Trisha and little nearly-3-year-old Emma…
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MediaCamp is an unconference for us social media geeks to network and meet like-minded people (and many with whom to disagree!) today in London. Some of the presentations are being streamed here by Loudmouthman so have a look even if…
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It’s my duty as Canadian to post today and wish all fellow Canucks, in the homeland and abroad, a wonderful, sunny, lively Canada Day. I’ve been away from home for quite some time and won’t be doing much partying, but…
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The wonderful team at Wikio gave me a sneak preview at the July rankings for the UK Tech blogs. Amongst the ranks are some of the usual suspects and, just off-the-podium, yours truly coming in at #29 30 this month…
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Natalie Dee draws really cute stuff.
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I’m a bit torn. Poke, a digital agency in London, created this funky campaign for Orange mobile’s Pay As You Go tariffs – you know, the raccoon, camel, canary and dolphin balloons? Yeah, well, if you see a camel called…
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Quick post to tell readers that things do happen up here in Cambridge, interesting things! Cory Doctorow is a blogger, science fiction writer and journalist. He is an editor of Boing Boing, the 11th best blog in the world (according…
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When designing a new site feature or planning a new campaign, I always create with a rule of thumb in mind: “Lower cognitive friction and make it as effortless as possible for the user to participate.” Less fields in the…
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