Sign up using my Facebook or Twitter ID? Well, maybe I don’t want to
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Author Archives: Sue Keogh
Bonfire brings realtime chat to Twitter
Described as ‘Facebook chat for Twitter’, Bonfire is a new instant messaging tool which allows you to have realtime conversations with your connections.
‘I think we’re changing people’s behaviour a little,’ says co-founder Josh Russell… Read more »
Yahoo!’s top searches of 2011 show we’ve got money on our minds
Search engine Yahoo!’s annual Year in Review has revealed the most popular search terms of 2011, and it’s no surprise to see that the top three are all related to the state of our finances.
9 out of 10 male. Average age 26. How can Wikipedia attract a more diverse set of editors?
Typically post-graduates, nine in ten of Wikipedia’s 36,000 volunteer contributors are male and the average age is 26. This lack of variety means the content is not as ‘culturally rich’ as it could be, says Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Salman Rushdie wins battle with Facebook after page is removed
Salman Rushdie has used the power of Twitter to overturn Facebook’s decision to deactivate his profile page.
Charity uses guilt tactics to target celebrities through Twitter
It’s commonly known that brands pay celebrities to tweet about their products, paying thousands for them to mention their products to millions of avid followers.
But what if this concept was turned on its head, with the people who read those tweets having a say in how the money is spent? If followers were able to persuade 50 Cent, Mariah Carey and Paris Hilton to use their wealth for social good?
When does an iPhone case not look like an iPhone case? When it looks like your ear
So I just came across this collection of iPhone 4 cases from CollabCubed which feature a life-sized print of an ear. When you hold it up to your ear, it looks like, er, an ear.
Does Facebook penalise you for using third party applications?
What’s this? Facebook updates made using third party applications such as Hootsuite are given less exposure than those made via the Facebook client?
Facebook analysts EdgeRank Checker claim just that: ’Using a 3rd party API to update your Facebook Page decreases your likelihood of engagement per fan (on average) by about 80%.’
Percolate: The news filter which ‘helps interesting content bubble to the surface’
New York-based startup Percolate is joining the content curation game with a news filtering tool which pulls out the stories you’ll find most interesting and relevant, then presents them to you so you can comment and share.
Twitter tattoos: Would you get inked for a worthy cause?
In the midst of what seems like a never-ending series of natural disasters, humanitarian crises and massive geopolitical events, a new project based in New York is tackling the issue of empathy and finding ways of making it more lasting…by giving people tattoos of trending topics from Twitter.
And there’s a twist: you don’t get to pick which one you get. Followers of the Social Tattoo Project vote for their favourite, for example #poverty or #haiti, and the volunteer has the hashtag etched onto their skin. Permanently.
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