Category Archives: social

Getting nexted on Chatroulette

Chatroullette is a hybrid of speed dating and hot or not (well pervert or not!), via video and IM chat, at least that’s my take on it. Watch Casey Neistat’s video study (above) to get an indepth view. Or, of course, play for yourself. In my 5 minute foray into this world I got seriously [...]
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Nike Live Stong Chalkbot

I know I’ve been offline for a while, but how did I miss this? A new friend in NYC just sent me the link to the Chalkbot created by Deeplocal for Nike and the 2009 Tour de France, the idea lives on the website ‘Wear Yellow’. In short you can send a message of hope [...]
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Mapping visualisation of 250 million Facebook users

This visualisation could be better, I want to zoom in and out, explore countries and cities… but it does get the point across. Facebook is very well connected. Personally I have a love hate relationship with the platform… but that’s inevitable with something that I joined almost four years ago, friended everyone in the first [...]
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The Internet Symphony playing now in NYC

They did it. The Internet Symphony is complete. Nice work by my mate Tom Uglow at Google in the UK – who’s at Carnegie Hall NYC right now. See my original post on the project here.
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More twitter data visual tools…

Via @art_s discovered Twitter Stream Graphs (screengrab), Twit Arcs and Twitter Spectrum. All provide data visualizations for twitter profiles and keywords – tools created by @JeffClark.
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Twitter data – the anti timesheet?

Katie Chatfield mentioned Xefer.com/twitter data visualisation tool at Ad:Tech Sydney. The tool allows you to plot a ‘twitterers’ behaviour over a week. Simply enter their profile and with a mixture of Google’s Chart API and Yahoo Pipes it magically plots the ‘twitterers’ habits. With a mild fascination in data and understanding online behaviour – it [...]
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10 informational diagrams, by Mr Armano

Mr Armano, can I call you David? David [amongst other things] creates diagrams that simplify this quagmire of information that we try to make sense of on a daily basis. These ‘informational graphics’ make the complex simple and provide [me] a way to frame my thinking. The following diagrams aren’t in any particular order. They’ve [...]
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Choosing a social media agency

Here’s a check-list for evaluating social media agencies – with my thoughts inline. First posted on Connect. 1. A new approach – since everyone claims to ‘do’ social, look for those seeking to develop new models for approaching it, not those seeking to map on their existing models. That’s for sure. If your business model [...]
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Single Origin – best coffee in Sydney

Single Origin Gypsy Friday from Scott Drummond on Vimeo. Julian just directed me to this great video on the Single Origin coffee shop in Surry Hills, by Scott Drummond (Scott, if there’s a better link, shout and I’ll change). This little coffee shop is where I start my working day – everyday. Not only does [...]
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Twitter helping to find ‘indie’ the cat – be vigilant!

Woke this morning to discover I’m being followed by ‘Lost in Bondi’, thought it might be a backpacker, but no its the beautiful looking ‘indie’ the cat – who is sadly lost. Tweet, blog, put up posters – spread the word. Let’s find ‘indie’. 20/12/2008, UPDATE: Indie has been found… !!!!
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More Mad Men – The Lives of Others

This is probably my final new media article for INSIDE FILM (#116) magazine. Final, because Rachael Turk (the then editor) has moved on to focus her passions firmly on film creation (and me). The story, which we wrote together, was born from our combined love of Mad Men and initial investigation I’d made into the [...]
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YouTube’s – collaborative online orchestra

Inspired use of the YouTube platform to bring classical musicians together and create a world first (well I think it is). The promise; to be part of a collaborative virtual performance and (if you’re really good) have the chance to play at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in 2009. At the heart of the idea [...]
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24 hours on SlideShare

So I joined SlideShare yesterday to share a pres that I put together for an APG training session. I’ve used the service for research but had yet to share anything. Within an hour I’d received an email from the SlideShare team saying that my pres was to be featured on their homepage. I was thrilled. [...]
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