Search results for: “social search”
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Social web – people power?
Last November a breakfast with Wadds meant the usual 45 minutes of dealing with big questions. That morning Wadds asked me had the social web failed to live up to initial expectations? The discussion made it into his book Brand Vandals. My take on this was that conversation on the social web isn’t aligned to the…
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All is social by Graham Brown
I’ve known All Is Social author Graham for a number of years. We first met when he ran MobileYouth selling marketing research to mobile operators, focused on the youth market. All is social is a mix: Graham’s own journey as an observer of Japanese society during his time as a JET scheme member and onwards…
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Slow social + more news
Slow social Caterina Fake: Fast Growth for a Social App Is a Very Bad Thing – AllThingsD – slow social approach is based on the idea that it’s not just about numbers, its about community social norms and ethos which take time to develop within a group. Fake pioneered building slow social type communities at…
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Search engine optimisation for PRs – a place to start anyway
Ok, I am not going to bother touching on the obvious questions like whether PR agencies have a place in search engine optimisation, or have a place at the marketing table at all anymore? Given my recent ‘29 not-very-technical things that every PR person should know‘ post, I thought a quick post on search engine…
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Social network decline + more
Social network decline Social network decline is likely hard to define at first, we would likely seem small signals here and there. It may be easier to see in smaller, niche platforms. It is hard to know when a backing track of Jim Morrison droning ‘this is the end my friend. This is the end’…
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Slugger O’Toole – social & print
The people at Taylor Bennett and Unicorn Jobs invited me along to an event which discussed social media and how it relates to the mainstream media. The panelists were Drew Benvie, Simon Nixon of Breakingviews and Mick Fealty of Slugger O’Toole and the Brassneck blog at the Daily Telegraph. Here is the notes that I…
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Harnessing the Power of Social Applications by Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li
Before I delve in to Harnessing the Power of Social Applications I need to get something out of the way. Normally I don’t highlight articles in the same way I will review a book, they would normally appear in links of the day, but I really liked Bernoff and Li’s article in the latest edition…
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Magic donkey
I was reading Rob Manuel’s Facebook post about the origin of B3ta’s ‘magic donkey’ and its wider connection to the modern dystopian web experience. B3ta and magic donkey I guess it makes sense to first explain what B3ta is. B3ta is a community of bored driven people with a creative bent and a finely tuned…
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Pornographers + more news
Pornographers and social search Can These Pornographers End ‘MILFs,’ ‘Teens,’ and ‘Thugs’? | The Nation – when I was working on social search and folksonomies at Yahoo! a decade ago, yet pornographers are now amongst the most active users of the technology. A few things about how the pornographers worlds have changed. At the centre…