WordPress 2.2.1

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

Plaxo and LouderVoice

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

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Now we know Facebook’s for toffs

It’s time for a new alternative…

 

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A Second Slice of Social Media

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

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Facebook as Game

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

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News Feeds

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

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