Category Archives: Social Media

Pinterest

Written by monkey. Filed under Apps, Online tools, Social Media. Tagged , . No comments.
pinterest pinning

Social media is responsible for all sorts of neologisms, portmanteaus and acronyms. Poking, tweeple and RT being just three. As well as liking, @replying and tumbling, we can now ‘pin’. And of all the social media platforms, Pinterest is one of the most useful. Simple … Read More

The Madness of BetFairPoker

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Bet Fair Pokers twitter love affair Dallas

Recently it seems the world has been going mad. It was always a pretty wacky world really (real life is always weirder than fiction of course). But lately everything just seems more surreal than normal. For instance, NASA have been given jurisdiction over the Scottish Premier League television rights. NASA?! … Read More

Alternative Google Plus circles

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Alternative Google circles

Happy Place crack another missed opportunity with this little visual ditty. Wish I’d thought of it… Click to see the full version (and thanks Happy Place!)

Social media: the new wall of shame

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social media wall

Once upon a time people used to write obscenities on walls. A marker pen in a toilet cubicle, a spray can of paint round the back of the bike sheds, a blunt knife and a sycamore tree. These were the tools of the cowardly bullies … Read More

The future is in us but may not be us

Written by monkey. Filed under Comment, Social Media, Viral. Tagged , , , , , , , . 2 Comments.
get-off-the-internet-day-web

Mystic Meg tried to predict it. Arthur C. Clarke and HG Wells were intrgued by it. George Orwell nailed it more than he could imagine. The future. How do you pre-empt the next big thing? How do you calculate how people will behave beyond iPads? How do you … Read More

Mr Zuckerberg I want my interests back please

Written by monkey. Filed under Data, Social Media. Tagged , , , . No comments.

Now apart from the fact that Facebook and Twitter have robbed me off my privacy (ok, so I opted to give it to them) and also my ability to think of anything else to do with my time (inevitably I simply log on and wait … Read More

LinkedIn election poll

Written by monkey. Filed under Digital, Social Media. Tagged , , , , , . 1 Comment.
LinkedIn Election Poll - UK General Election May 2010

LinkedIn are conducting an election poll and the results seem to confirm a few assumptions I’d already made about the electorate: Creative types are more liberal and idealistic (and I think this applies to social media and digital geeks too) Business leaders have lost confidence … Read More

Don’t Risk The Tories says Labour PPC ad

Written by monkey. Filed under Digital, Marketing, Outdoor advertising, PPC, Social Media. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
Tweetminster has helped bring Westminster to the online community (or vice versa?!)

Labour’s anti-Cameron PPC (plus #UKelection display ads by Conservatives and the Google Chrome party) Lots has been said and written about the impact of social media on politics. Barack Obama surged to power on the back of a Facebook campaign; Stephen Fry brought the strife … Read More

Viva la revolution: apps that have changed the way I do things

Written by monkey. Filed under Apps, Blogs and blogging, Digital, Social Media. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , . 5 Comments.
Readefine makes browsing regular blogs easy - but doesn't detract from actually going there to comment

Apps are the buzzword of the moment. Whether on your iPhone, desktop or bolted on to your browser, ‘add-ons’, ‘applications’ and ‘clients’ are the tools that help us get what we want from technology. I’ve compiled a list of a few apps that have significantly … Read More

I’m a Golden Twit

Written by monkey. Filed under Beer, Digital, Display ads, Social Media. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , . No comments.
Golden Twit Award commendations for Real Ale Reviews

And to top it all off, I recently found out that my beer reviews blog, Real Ale Reviews, had won two commendations from the inaugural Golden Twit Awards organised by The Drum magazine…

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