As part of the London Bloggers Meetup ‘bean themed’ meme that’s doing the rounds, here’s my attempt to win a luxury beanbag from Ambient Lounge.  Ambient Lounge’s designer bean bags are hopefully worth the effort that went into compiling this list of bloggers and their ‘bean’ equivalents. Random…
If London Bloggers were beans… what would they be?

TikiChris would be a Polynesian Green Bean
Because ‘Tiki’ refers to large wood and stone carvings of humanoid forms in Central Eastern Polynesian cultures of the Pacific Ocean. The term is also used as it relates to M?ori mythology where Tiki …

Ethan Zuckerman studies how the world (the whole world) uses new media to share information and moods across cultures, languages and platforms. His TED talk earlier this summer focuses on how our growing reliance on the localised web as a news source means that we are becoming more and more isolated from the plight of our fellow net-zens in other global regions:
Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the …

Search and ye shall find… well that’s what Google thinks, but sometimes when you want to tap into the collective search listings of the world, even Google Trends and Google Insights for Search don’t give you that quick snapshot that you’re looking for. That’s where the new Google Beat episodes look to help out.
The short YouTube vids briefly discuss the week’s hot web search trends and aim to give us a flavour of what is trending on Google. In this first epsisode, Google’s Anne Espiritu (who has probably prompted many image searches in …

Spotted this banner ad today from Sky boasting about advertising its broadband speeds of up to 20MB…
It was however, on a page highlighting competitor Virgin Media’s announcement of its forthcoming 100MB broadband rollout.

Contextual advertising.
You gotta love it!

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This SlideShare presentation that I discovered via the brilliant @beth_carroll at social-collective.com made me choke on my cornflakes when I saw it this morning!
This represents thousands of social-meeeedja pitches I’ve seen from tonnes of agencies in the past few years. So true… so funny!
Twankers Social Media Agency Sales Pitch
View more presentations from Tommy Twanker.

About Tommy Twanker
From a bespectacled, snorkel parka wearing, Crackerjack pencil earning child to the world’s number 1 social media guru. Who’d have thought it? Well that is the journey travelled by Tommy Twanker. Still keeping his feet …

Going off topic here to plug a new film that’s coming out at some point in 2011.
‘PETER’ – A Study for a Portrait of a Serial Killer, is a feature length drama containing genuine archive that takes the audience on a unique journey into the mind of Peter Sutcliffe ‘The Yorkshire Ripper’.
My wife Stéphanie is the Production Manager on this feature so I’ve got an invested interest in the success of the project but even so, PETER looks like a corker of a film. I’ve had to endure a year of …

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 …

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 …

I had a really interesting meeting this morning with a fairly senior figure from the UK PR industry. Our conversation steered towards cool consumer campaigns and how much social media can enhance and shape brand reputation. The train of thought evolved naturally to the B2B sectors and the consensus was that there is still a lot of relatively untapped potential in social media that B2B brands could dip into and use to their advantage.
But far too often, the comms industry tends to reserve new platforms to showcase consumer campaigns leaving …

Google’s long history of acquisition, innovation, experimentation, successes and failures is dotted with household names (YouTube) and forgotten brands (Jaiku anyone?).
The following Infographic from Mashable puts Google’s Social Media history into the contect of a timeline. I for one, refuse to get excited by the prospect of Google launching it’s Facebook competitor Google Me particularly as I’ve often thrown the full weight of my enthusiasm behind the likes of Orkut, GoogleWave, SideWiki and Aardvark only to be bitterly disappointed.
Anyhooooo….

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