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Trying out a Spark

A couple of days ago I gave SocialSpark a whirl. It’s IZEA‘s new product aimed at becoming a marketplace where bloggers and advertisers can meet and interact with one another. It uses an interesting social model where different entities can befriend one another, communicate directly… Read more »

Adding a little sparkle

Got a call yesterday to give our friends in Isle of Man Finance a hand with a presentation they were preparing on a memory stick. It wasn’t a difficult problem; they simply wanted the presentation to start up automatically when the USB stick was plugged… Read more »

Listening to your market – Zemanta rocks!

I had a brilliant consumer moment yesterday. I blogged about a FireFox plugin called Zemanta that sits in your browser and waits for you to work on a blog post. As soon as it spots you’re doing this, it springs into life and stars offering… Read more »

Web 2.0 for lunch

I went to listen to Sherrilynne give a seminar on Web 2.0 and Social Media at the International Business School over lunch. It was a great event where she covered quite a lot of ground. I always enjoy listening to Sherrilynne speak, because, although I… Read more »

Talk to me – thanks to Google Talkback

I’ve just added a Google Chatback button to this blog, which you can see on the top of the right-hand sidebar, which allows readers on my blog to page me and have a chat, if they are so inclined. It’s a new feature that has… Read more »

Dairy Milk Carton Packaging

What a brilliant display of product packaging! I was walking past a shop this morning and spotted the new Dairy Milk which is packaged in a box that looks like a milk carton! This fits in so well with Cadbury‘s strategic message for the Dairy… Read more »

The Lone Server

Today I came across an interesting viral marketing campaign that Microsoft have embarked on. It’s the story of The Lone Server, which is allegedly the last Windows 2003 server that Microsoft are using now that they have switched all their other servers to Windows 2008…. Read more »