Category Archives: social

Blip.fm the annotated music network

Annoying that the embeddable button (above) doesn’t really work with my widget width (you know what I mean, right?). Enjoy this whilst its on my homepage (click play), which will probably be a while, as my publishing behaviour is far from regular so it’ll take some time to move to the next. More importantly have [...]
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MTV Exit: Radiohead – All I Need

The In Rainbows ongoing release/re-use continues to amaze me… The singles from the album become a vehicle for all types of communication benefiting everyone involved from remixing to this re-work of ‘All I Need’ for MTV Exit shown here. The split screen shows a day in the life of two kids, in such different worlds; [...]
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The truth about FaceBook

Hilarious real-world sketch on the realities of connecting to people you weren’t really friends with in the first place. I totally relate to this. Hardly using FaceBook anymore, in fact, it outright annoys me most of the time. It has no relevance now I’ve got over the honeymoon of connecting to everyone I knew. Maybe [...]
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Inspired by WeFeelFine; Twistori

Big fan of data exploration and what better social network to explore that the stream of conciousness that twitter empowers and delivers. Twistori is a project that explores twitter comments by instances of the words ‘I; love, hate, think, believe, feel, and wish. In much the same way that Johnathan Harris’s We Feel Fine does, [...]
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Sunlight on (Google) Earth

Quick post: Google Earth 4.3 (beta) is now available, not only with more advanced 3d photo-realistic renderings of notable cities and builiding but with the ablility to simulate sunrise to sunset, with the aptly named ‘Sunlight’ feature. Watch this video to get a view..
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Good overcomes bad! & new media is the weapon.

Chris Brogan just highlighted this video post from Gary Vaynerchuk. The post in my mind captures what the Cluetrain predicted back in 1999, ‘the end of business as usual’. Today, our lives are transparent and on show through the social services that we choose to surround ourselves with, whether its flickr that tells it in [...]
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Embed maps – it’s fun!

Where I live in Sydney View Larger Map Where my flat is in London View Larger Map My folks are somewhere around here View Larger Map
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iTunes Movie Rentals a point of view

This is a blog version of the article I wrote for INSIDEFILM #107 (download pdf) March 2008 edition. Following the announcement of iTunes Movie Rentals. iDistribute Australian consumers are not just at the end of the food chain, they’re part of it – iTunes ready or not. In mid-January at Macworld, Apple launched iTunes Movie [...]
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Facebook Friendwheel App

This is a picture of my friend wheel, all the people I’m connected to through Facebook. Great application developed by Thomas Fletcher. There are a number of custom settings you can mess around with – have a play. Go here to get the Facebook Friendwheel application.
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