Facebook vs Google Plus vs Twitter
I’m new to Google Plus but I’ve already spent a fair amount of time updating my Google Profile, creating circles and adding people. It’s an interesting time for me. I have a healthy dislike of Facebook and therefore very rarely use directly. Flipboard allows me to “magazine” the content in a convenient and disposable form, [...]
Social media no longer sexy
Ask any traditional marketer about her potential marketplace and she’ll bark on about demographics, age, gender and various other segmentation approaches. In fact, most marketing departments would be a little stuck without their (fixed) demographic profiling. We are starting to see a change though. As likeminded people gather around fellow likers communities have been springing [...]
Killing the conversation
Like many I’ve been using Facebook for a number of years. In that time it’s gone through various versions and iterations as most site invariably do and no matter how much I use the site, some things continue to bother me and my mind just won’t let go. For a long time I just put [...]
Intelligent browsing is here
We are starting to see the beginnings of intelligent browsers that are centred around the needs of people and not companies. Apple have released Safari 5.0 and it has a really neat [READER] button at the end of the address bar that quite cleverly turns a advert-loaded web page into a lovely, clean browsing experience. [...]
Email is dead?
Radical? Not really, but communication is changing and that does mean the use of email as the defacto communication medium is coming to an end. Ask anyone under the age of 21 how they communicate and they’ll mention Text, Facebook and MSN but hardly ever mention email. To the Generation Y population email is just [...]
Zuckerberg…unplugged
The somewhat quiet and reserved founder of Facebook is going to be the central character in a new Hollywood film “The Social Network” due for release in a couple of weeks. Most people outside of the webby world won’t have heard of Zuck before so it’s likely to be a bit of a shock for [...]
Privacy arms race is hotting up
You cannot help to notice that privacy is fast becoming one of the hottest subjects in town. Driven, in part, by the social networking revolution every Tom, Dick and Harry are throwing great new applications at us such as Facebook, Gowalla, Google Me (?) with the aim of capturing a large slice of our social [...]
Google Me is imminent?
After Kevin Rose (founder of Digg) dropped the rumour bomb in late June of the arrival on the scene of Google Me the webby world has been beside itself with excitement’ “what will it be like”, “will I be able to move easily from Facebook”, “what will Zuckerberg say”, etc. The ground does seem to [...]
