social media

Why i dislike how people use Facebook.

Facebook was a great idea. It was great because it was an online method by which to meet people within your network and to get to know them before you drop by the bar. It was especially good for those who are shy. As more people started using it though something bad happened. Mid and late adopters started using the website. In itself this is a great thing because it means that you can find man friends and communicate with them.

The Vienna feed reader.

Here I am at 33,000 feet and I’ve been going through two days worth of RSS feed material whilst offline using Vienna. I’ve been getting a vast amount of data and I’m more inspired to write. I hadn’t really thought of downloading feeds until documentally of Ourmaninside told me about the browser. It’s a simple browser. You export your feeds from greader as an OPML and import it. All your feeds are added and downloaded to the hard disk for you to skim through at a time most convenient to you.

Seesma Forum - Seesmic as a video based forum

When I first saw seesmic I thought of it as a video version of twitter but that point of view has shifted. I now think of it as an online video forum where video messages have replaced both text and pictures. I would expect many more websites of the sort to grow and it will see in a new era in social interactions on the web. What I question is how long this video chatting website will last.

A social media binge

This weekend I went on a social media binge. A social media binge is the moment when you forfeit sleep and the rest of reality for a few hours as part of the social media. For the purpose of this particular challenge I set myself two pass times. The first of these was to twitter and the second was to seesmic. If you read previous posts you’ll find out what twitter.

Two Seesmic evenings later

For the past two days I’ve been monitoring and participating in the seesmic conversations and it’s been a really interesting experience. There are so many different people. You’ve got some people living in San Francisco, others in South East Asia, France, Australia and England and they’re all coming to chat via video. This chat is different from other chats in that it’s recorded segments. It’s about people speaking about key parts of their day.

On meeting Robert Scoble at the London Geek Dinner

This afternoon Nik Butler, Loudmouthman sent me a text message asking whether I was free to go to the London Geek Dinner where Robert Scoble would appear. Of course I was free so I decided to go to the event and met a number of people. The first person I met was Robert Scoble for this particular event. He was standing at the door and as I came up he welcomed me into the room, we shook hands and I got his business card.

Twittervox - as seen in central London

The film Juno was screened to a crowd of bloggers of which both Loudmouthman and I were part of. As a result it gave us the perfect opportunity to do a twittervox. The video can be found here for direct download. After meeting with Nik Butler and others for the screening of the film Juno several tweeters meet up at the Union bar to discuss both the film and other topics Those present were danacea of Forbidden Planet, Loudmouthman of Loudmouthman.

Last time I went to the cinema my name was in the credits

Last time I went to the cinema I was in Paris and my name was in the credits. This time I was at the 20th Century Fox offices on Soho Square in London as a guest, along with Loudmouthman, Suzymiller, Danacea, Rupert Howe, Sizemore and many other social media participants. We were invited to preview the film Juno, which will be out in British cinemas around the 8th of February 2008.

Which do you take to bed, laptop, mobile phone, both or other

David Fisher - Dec 2, 2007 I normally have: -Cat, large and fierce -Macbook Pro -iPhone There’s also an unused Treo 650 within reach. Then again, everything’s within reach of the bed in my apartment… I know I sleep better actually when the laptop isn’t near the bed however. Mobile phone… Google reader, Yeigo, Facebook, Twitter, MXit, Gmail Laptop lives by the side of my bed, mobile phone wakes me up in the morning and then I summon the engery to get up by checking my email and overnight Twitters on my Blackberry