Archive for the 'social networks' Category
Playing with Scoutle
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 10th May, 2008
I came across a really interesting website called Scoutle today. It’s an interesting social network facility for bloggers and websites which promises to link you up with other sites that are similar in interest and content. It uses a ranking algorithm to let your “scout” run around the web and be matched up with other [...]
Trying out a Spark
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 18th Apr, 2008
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 and work together.
There are a few interesting innovations which I [...]
Web 2.0 for lunch
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 10th Mar, 2008
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 have experiences similar to what she describes, she always comes [...]
Do you Twitter? What is it, you say?
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 6th Mar, 2008
I came across a brilliant video clip that explains what Twitter is in plain English:
I love the simplicity of the video, especially as it has been particularly tricky explaining to people just why I’ve found Twitter so useful. The video is a starting point really, and doesn’t go into why Twitter has such a lasting [...]
WordPress turning social ..
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 5th Mar, 2008
It was only yesterday that Hyder mentioned BuddyPress to me, which is a set of plugins that turns Wordpress into a fully fledged social networking website. Today, I’ve just read that Andy Peatling, the person behind BuddyPress has just joined Automattic, the company behind Wordpress, WordPress MU, bbPress and Akismet. It signals that WordPress will probably have [...]
Scrabulous vs Hasbro
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 25th Jan, 2008
It’s been a couple of years since I received my Cease and Desist order to take my ASP version of Magic 8 Ball off the web. It was a tiny app, but I was quite shocked that that Mattel’s stance is to kill anything similar to the product they hold the copyright for rather than [...]
Facebook as a productivity tool
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 30th Oct, 2007
I came across a great post today, Deanna down at StrivePR was talking about how FaceBook has become part of her working life in her post: FaceBook as a sausage-on-a-stick. I’ll quote part of her post:
Whilst many companies may be blocking it or fawning about its use within their workplace, I am becoming increasingly [...]
I’m on Pownce
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 7th Aug, 2007
Just when you thought Facebook has taken over the world, in comes another social network to steal it’s thunder. I signed up with Pownce today and here’s my Pownce page. I haven’t really given it a chance yet, but it seems much more limited that anything Facebook brings to the table. But then, the power [...]
FaceBook gets a taste of it’s own medicine
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 3rd Aug, 2007
It’s been interesting to watch the growth of FaceBook and the rise of applications that get hosted within it’s “domain”. However, the one thing that has risen to the surface is how FaceBook is perfectly happy to integrate other people’s data into their space, but not that happy to share the data it holds about [...]
Innovation driving Innovation
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 25th Jun, 2007
Don’t you just love the way how innovation and market development go hand in hand? One person comes up with a widget, someone else will copy it and make some improvements, someone else will come up with a brand new way to use it, but nevertheless the widget keeps getting improved and proves more value [...]
WorkConnexions
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 27th Mar, 2007
It’s interesting to watch innovation in your local community. A new online community has been launced by Leo Cussons and Nathan Pledger here in the Isle of Man. It’s called Work Connexions and is the fruit of six months labour.
What they are trying to achieve is a marketplace for contractors and employers to meet [...]
Rise of the social networks
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 28th Feb, 2007
Are you a member of a social network? These sites are designed to put you in touch with people with similar likes and dislikes. There are a number around, including MySpace, FaceBook, Orkut and LinkedIn. But there’s also one that was built here in the UK.
PPLParty was started by Callum Brannan when he was 17. [...]
ShareYourPage.com
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 10th Feb, 2007
Here’s one way to get some more exposure of your website. ShareYourPage.com is a website that allows people to post information about their page, homepage, blog or website so that people can pop in and have a look. It doesn’t matter if your page is on Hi5, MySpace, YouTube or even your own personal domain, [...]
Ties in the workplace
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 1st Feb, 2007
Like my tie in this picture? It’s got Goofy trying to climb up to my neck and I’m ashamed to say it’s pretty much similar to most of the other ties I own.
Well, now’s my chance to change that. I’ve just found out about Belisi Take off that Tie Campaign that is giving a [...]
Rise of the Social Networks
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 29th Jan, 2007
Social networks are a new breed of website that are rising all over the Internet. The main ones I partake in are MySpace, Hi5 and SpicyPage and that’s just listing the ones I take more than a casual interest in. I must be registered with around 10-12 networks in total, too many to pay real [...]
