Category: socialmedia

I've been doing a lot of evangelising about the power of social media lately. I believe that unless you actively participate in it (and I don't just mean having a Facebook profile) it is very difficult to grasp the subtleties that characterise it. More than that, social media comes from an entirely different place to…

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I've been having a bit of healthy discussion over here about whether businesses should embrace the new culture of openness or whether, to quote David "opening up a network only makes sense for the losers, not the winners," and instead "it is right to figure out which areas will be strategic to retaining users, and…

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Twistori is a Twitter application inspired by wefeelfine that allows people to follow Twitter updates focused around some particular words: Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel and Wish. Like the Digg Labs Swarm, Stack, Big Spy and the more recent pics applications that let you see what’s being Dugg (and how many times) right as it’s…

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Excellent talk from Clay Shirky at the recent Web 2.0 Expo  (and in many ways relevant to the post below). I like his concept of the ‘cognitive surplus’ from which social and collaborative ideas will gain share. 16 minutes well spent, if only to hear the great example he uses of the Pluto page on…

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Apparently at last years Davos gathering, when Mark Zuckerberg was asked by one of the assembled media moguls how to create a community he told them you can't. Communities already exist. Instead, think about how you can help that community do what it wants to do. At the same event, Jeff Jarvis reported that: "the…

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"What is reading, but silent conversation" said Charles Lamb. Well here's one conversation which is already making lots of noise – the Age of Conversation 2 project is officially underway. Now in year two, it's gained some real momentum with 275 bloggers collaborating on the second incarnation. I shall be writing about business model evolution…

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Like most of us I suspect I get approached a lot these days by agencies or people wanting me to write about a brand new product or service as part of a blogger outreach programme. The variety of approach you get never fails to surprise to me, and I'm pretty choosy. But I'm also curious.…

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Streisand, who sung about misty water-coloured memories courtesy Finding this on the Beeb opened up some interesting thoughts on the storing and sharing of memories. The BBC Memoryshare project is a living archive of over a hundred years of memories from 1900 to the present day, contributed by members of the public. Memories of people’s…

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Thanks to Geek and Poke

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