Bambi on thin ice
Like me, you may have missed the story about Bambi Francisco, of Marketwatch, resigning Friday over a conflict of interest with her new startup, Vator.tv. I’ll admit to wondering why Bambi occasionally asked for video…
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Reality Twittervision
Check out Twittervision for a mashup of Twitter with geolocation data. It gives you a world map with each ‘tweet’ popping up in realtime. It’s reality TV, web 2.0-style. Massively trivial and disjointed but also…
Pointless PR social network gathers momentum
The Public Relations social network with no charter, direction, or aim beyond simple existence is now up to fifteen members. It’s a place to hang out, make the same friends you’ve already made and perhaps…
Yet one more twit
I’ve been resisting Twitter since I’m evidently already struggling to maintain my current channels of communication via email, IM, SL, VoIP, blog, RSS, phone, face to face(!). But today email went down which left me…
Guide to corporate blogging
My colleague, Mark van der Wolf has put together a 20-page guide to corporate blogging, called the Business Value of Blogging, which he presented at the recent EuroBlog 2007 event last week. You can download…
Going global and getting virtual
I had a great chat with Bulldog Reporter’s Brian Pittman last week about trends in media (social media/new media/citizen journalism – call it what you will), Second Life, and the internationalization of PR. He’s kindly…
All the best for 2007
Welcome to 2007. This year will continue to see rapid changes in communications technologies and techniques (from virtual worlds to the greater adoption of social media news releases), some great new start ups emerge (especially…
The State of the Blogosphere
Dave Sifry, CEO of Technorati, brings us up to date with the numbers to October 2006. T’rati is tracking 57m blogs now, even after removing a ton of splogs. He even goes so far as…
Firefox 2 with spell checker
Now out as of 5.00pm PT – get it here. Just downloading it now. Apart from the speed and anti-phishing advances, I think the spell checker will be particularly useful. I could never get the…
Drew writes for TechCrunch UK
More congrats, this time to Drew who is now contributing to TechCrunch UK, which recently launched to cover the UK’s Web 2.0 and social media space. His first post is here about Niall Cook’s social…