News on Japan – New-old ‘Forest Girls’ fashion of Japan Posterous Now Syncs Posts With Facebook Pages Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS – interesting that this is a completely separate project from Android McClure’s Asia Music News | Online, mobile content distribution up in Japan PR 2.0 will double your workload Digital [...]
Charles Arthur wrote about how he was finding blogging changing as blogging at the ‘tail’ has dropped off. Couple this with moves to lifestreaming from FriendFeed to video services like Qik being adopted by some leading bloggers like Robert Scoble and Steve Rubel and you could be fooled into believing some of the nay-sayers who [...]
Learning Twitter? Don’t Take Your Cue From These Ad Agencies – Advertising Age A special announcement from Netimperative – Netimperative shuts its doors Pattern Recognition with Google Analytics | Blog | Econsultancy Primark staff criticise ‘pikey’ customers on Facebook – Brand Republic – depressingly common social media faux pas Japan’s Rakuten: Can The Biggest E-Commerce [...]
I have been thinking about legislation and innovation recently, triggered in part by a conversation over Twitter that I had with Phillip Sheldrake over Twitter whilst he was at the Intellect conference. In western countries such as the UK, France, Sweden and the US we have seen legislation and authorities act out of fear and [...]
Moonfruit is the web 2.0 equivalent of GeoCities or FrontPage, however due to a competition giving away a brace of Apple laptops that people entered by spamming all and sundry participating in their viral marketing campaign with #moonfruit alienating twitter followers and pushing the word moonfruit as a leading trend; the word became bigger than [...]
Cisco Offers Linux-Enabled Linksys Router My Interview With Antitrust Expert Gary Reback: Google’s Looming Antitrust Issues VKontakte | Welcome! – the Russian facebook Jonathan From Spotify Ruined Your Playlist – Google Spreadsheet is the new MySQL EPA May Have Suppressed Anti-Global Warming Study MySpace now a “digital ghetto”
Phillip Sheldrake whilst he was at Racepoint started a dialogue with the social media community about the development of an influence scoreboard. The idea is influence and reputation is the purest form of measure to capture what happens in public relations. Sheldrake is looking for a silver bullet to the measurement of online PR and [...]
Facebook’s Awkward Adolescence « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang Understanding Luxury Brands and Social Media The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Read Our Magazines 10 things I know from working all sides of the media triangle (agency, in-house and journo) – good advice for anybody looking to get into PR Online Exclusive: Profile: Biz Stone, co-founder, Twitter [...]
Way before I was a PR person I DJ’ed. I started DJ’ing before house music was called house music in the mid-1980s whilst I was still at school. My two passions were records and casual sportswear (nothing has really changed much). One of the things that used to happen in those days was that artists [...]
16 bitchin’ commands and shortcuts for Twitter | Econsultancy The 5 Phases Of The Facebook Sales Funnel Consumer Psychologist: Why We Like To Pay More for Beer, Art and Prostitutes – its about the price placebo effect, really interesting when you think about brand positioning and proposition Thinking differently about word-of-mouth | mediaczar Why marketers [...]
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