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[30 Jul 2010 | One Comment | 609 views]

These are my links for July 30th from 11:12 to 17:13:

SMSlingshot: Public Media Interventions – how cool is this! – The SMSlingshot is a digital device that enables users to hit a screen with SMS information, allowing the public to interact with urban space in a participatory way. The team Vr-Urban (Berlin/Glaswegian team of self-described “public media interventionistas”) sees this device as allowing a public and personal and interactive aesthetic presentation of information.
Facebook Questions Officially Launches – Facebook has begun the rollout of a new feature, Facebook Questions, which will …

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[30 Jul 2010 | One Comment | 1,604 views]

These are my links for July 27th through July 30th:

Social Care Managing Customer Service Via A Facebook Page – If your company or brand has a Facebook page, whether you like it or not, you now have a new customer service platform. Customers will flock to your Facebook page not only to become faithful fans, but also to access support, ask questions and (unfortunately) post complaints.
In a Facebook world, who needs Flickr? – Facebook is already the world's largest photo sharing site.  Everyone and their aunt are actively "photo-blogging" everything, …

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[25 Jul 2010 | One Comment | 627 views]

These are my links for July 25th from 11:28 to 21:48:

Wikileaks Afghanistan files: download the key incidents as a spreadsheet – Key incidents from the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs selected by Guardian writers. As a spreadsheet, with co-ordinates
Top 20 Sites To Improve Your Twitter Experience – a list of the top 20 third-party websites for making your Twitter experience more useful and easier to manage.
Internet is running out of digital addresses – mirror.co.uk – The internet is coming to the end of the road in its present form because it …

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[24 Jul 2010 | One Comment | 830 views]

These are my links for July 23rd from 17:48 to 18:03:

Facebook Fatigue: Dissatisfaction Growing Amongst Younger Members – Ypulse recently undertook a survey of 1,000 teens and college students to understand how their social networking habits have changed over time. The results revealed some interesting stats suggesting that some young people are indeed affected by “Facebook Fatigue“-a phenomenon of  users spending less and less time on it.
London’s Gatwick Airport integrates Twitter to solicit customer complaints – As part of its brand relaunch, London’s Gatwick Airport is going all social media …

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[22 Jul 2010 | One Comment | 696 views]

These are my links for July 22nd from 01:23 to 10:35:

Coca-Cola admits to ignorance of Dr Pepper campaign – Coca-Cola said it signed off an offensive update in the Dr Pepper Facebook competition without knowing what it meant.
Are you on the j-list? The leading innovators in journalism and media in 2010 – Recent industry lists ranking the great and good in journalism and the media fell a bit short of the mark for Journalism.co.uk. Where were the online innovators? Where were the journalists on the ground outside of the executives’ …

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[22 Jul 2010 | 3 Comments | 2,238 views]
Avalaugh at BBC’s Avatar Policy

Oh dear.
Been testing out the Beeb’s iPlayer BETA for a few weeks now and finally decided to hook up my Facebook and Twitter accounts to enable the BBC’s new ‘recommend’ feature.
I then receive the following email:

and the offending avatar…?

“If you choose to add a Public Profile picture, it will appear on your Public Profile page, and in other places around the BBC website, for example in places where you’ve made a recommendation or a comment that is attributed to you. We moderate all Public Profile pictures before they are published for other …

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[22 Jul 2010 | One Comment | 968 views]

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[16 Jul 2010 | 3 Comments | 1,511 views]

These are my links for July 15th through July 22nd:

An Anti-Social Network – When Nick Clegg in the House of Commons today criticised the erosion of civil liberties and the invasion of people’s privacy over the past 13 years, he was referring, of course, to the rise of Facebook and eyespymp.
UK businesses still blocking social media, despite user take-up – Research just published claims to show that UK firms are missing out on the business benefits of social networking for the simple reason they are blocking access to Web 2.0 …

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[15 Jul 2010 | One Comment | 624 views]

These are my links for July 15th from 14:02 to 23:00:

The Email Signature: From Efficient to Disgusting and Everywhere in Between –
The Social Customer – Public Relations Princess –
BBC News – Is Twitter a force for good? – Katty Kay spoke with its co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams about the ever growing community that is living online.
Staying up late faffing around on the internet is a sign of intelligence – knew it. – apparently staying up late – being a night owl rather than a lark – …

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[15 Jul 2010 | One Comment | 842 views]
User Generated Content and the Law – a free guide from @TemperoUK

This afternoon I visited the offices of Tempero – Europe’s largest supplier of social media moderation and management services.
The team I met with do a great job in providing 24/7 specialist moderation for message boards, blogs, commenting, social networking sites and user generated content (UGC) projects.
One of the things I like about Tempero is that they stay ahead of the game in knowing what the legal requirements are when it comes to engaging with your audiences online. The whole area is a potential legal minefield – often with serious repercussions …