By Ian, on June 27th, 2007 Just upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.2.1 with no apparent upsets. It’s a refinement of the major 2.2 version announced a few weeks ago and fixes some of the things (about 43 of them) the new version broke, in particular, the very fine ExecPHP widget that lets me create the category cloud and the Continue reading WordPress 2.2.1 By Ian, on June 27th, 2007 The regular version of Plaxo remains free, but the premium version costs $50 a year. That’s quite a lot compared to premium services of other web apps, but if you fit into the demographic that Plaxo’s aimed at — mobile or work from different locations, tons of contacts built up over many years, fairly hectic schedule Continue reading Plaxo and LouderVoice By Ian, on June 26th, 2007 By Ian, on June 23rd, 2007 Aussie PR bloggers Trevor Cook and Lee Hopkins have released the second edition of their e-book about social media, now updated to cover Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook and Second Life. As previously, it’s a free PDF download. It’s a good read and covers some lesser-known (in the Northern Hemisphere) examples of brands and organisations using social media to Continue reading A Second Slice of Social Media By Ian, on June 22nd, 2007 Facebook is a game, the same as Linked-In is a game and bebo is a game and all the rest. Google doesn’t want to be a game, but a lot of people want it to be and are playing it anyway. The first stage of the game is getting to level two. Level two means having more contacts than Continue reading Facebook as Game By Ian, on June 21st, 2007 Over at currybetdotnet, Martin Belam has produced OPML files for all the RSS feeds published by the eight leading UK newspapers. This amounts to the aggregation of 2316 different feeds — though individual author feeds for the Guardian’s Comment is Free admittedly account for 1968 of these. A CiF-less version with 348 feeds Continue reading News Feeds | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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