What Your Facebook Profile Shouldn’t Look Like

Really not necessary. Really.

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Happiness Is..

..characterized by good society. ..waking up and knowing you’re on the road to where you want to go, even if you don’t know where it will take you. ..a warm bum. ..an idea worth pursuing. ..hearing the laughter of children. Thanks to Adam, Charles, Lloyd and Paul for sharing. You can tell me social media [...]

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Class Networking

An interesting but not really mind-blowing take on how Facebook users are apparently likely to be more educated than MySpace users. It’s not a shock given that Facebook started life as a college based networking site (up until some months ago you had to have your university on the facebook list and have access to [...]

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An Evening With The Dark Side

Last week I was at Chinwag’s latest event, The Darkside of Social Media. It was definitely thought provoking. However/but/etc I was quite disappointed/but not really shocked to see the vast majority of traditional agencies not present on the guest list. But that’s not something Chinwag had control of. The panel (as listed by Chinwag) consisted [...]

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GVoyeur?

Google Maps and Google Earth are really cool tools. The ability to zoom to almost street level anywhere in the world is gimmicky for sure, but still something that definitely sparks oohs and aahs when put on show to find an old home. Or anything for that matter. And if / when you see your [...]

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The Second Coming..

of the dot com boom (and then by definition maybe a burst?) seems to be underway. But this time it’s all about social networking and making connections, I think. Last.FM got picked up by American media giant CBS (story here and reaction here) a few days back and it seems there’s a feeling in large [...]

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Windows, Labels and Broken Barriers

Today has been a day of catching up on the ‘I should blog about that’ list. So I’ll press on. This post is broadly about how the internet is making it harder to hide yourself. By that I mean your whole self. Convergence and social networking and web 2.0 have all unwittingly contrived to make [...]

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