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Stewart Lee social media parody
As a reminder that you should never take yourself or indeed social media too seriously (please note, consultants), Stewart Lee provides this great spoof of a presentation I’m sure many of you will have sat through and a number will have given… Just a shame that WordPress.com prevents me from embedding the video or you … Continue reading
Influence of social media on search rankings
There had long been anecdotal evidence of the influence of social media on search engine rankings, but now the data has slowly been emerging to back it up. Of course a simple view of search engine results shows the inclusion of Tweets on the results page and Facebook pages ranking highly against common search terms. … Continue reading
Stumbling into the record books
I often show social discovery wonder StumbleUpon in presentations to demonstrate the alternative forms of site discovery emerging on the web. To this point, I’ve just been an interested observer and occasional Stumbler. No longer. Some influential soul discovered TechnoCloud and gave it the thumbs up to recommend it to other users. Cue a relative … Continue reading
Social nicheworking
Another oh-so-handy reference list from the recently list obsessed Mashable, profiling the increasing ‘How to’ video niche. While YouTube and its many clones try to be all things to all people, these How To sites are proving that there is a market for niche video communities. The best of these sites are more focused, easier … Continue reading
BlueOrganizer contextual search menu
Adaptive Blue have released version 3.0 of the BlueOrganizer social bookmarking tool, with a Firefox extension that is a contextual search menu linking you into the ‘social mediasphere’. On first look, it brings to mind the Hyperwords project with its contextual browser extension for interacting in more depth with the keywords on a page. After … Continue reading
Netscape widget rolling with the times
Netscape have invested heavily in social software on their portal to try and reverse its decline from the heady days of early browser dominance. If you visit their homepage, you’ll see editor-generated content alongside Digg-style user submitted content, a signficant change from the me-too portal that came before it. In the age of increasing content … Continue reading
Social bookmarking with WordPress
One of the functions of this blog is as a space to experiment with technology and to share the results, whether a Google widget or indeed social bookmarking on WordPress as you’ll see below. Thanks to the wonders of the WordPress plugin community (and in this case Apostolos Dountsis), each blog post now has a … Continue reading
Who wants to be a millionaire?
Netflix are offering a $1m prize to the first person who can achieve a 10%+ improvement in their recommendation engine. They are making available sections of their ratings database and stress that all data is anonymous – after all they wouldn’t want an AOL data leak on their hands… The standard Netflix model, as with competitors Blockbuster and … Continue reading
