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FaceBook’s Primitive Content Management System

Jun 18, 2020

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Reading Time: 2 minutesFacebook’s Primitive Content Management System, because aside from being a social media platform, it is a CMS, makes it very hard to delete posts, images, and more in bulk. Facebook should be seen as a CMS because it allows us to share images, posts, events, and more. As a CMS we should…

Replacing FaceBook with Meetup.com, Replacing the past with the present and the future

Feb 11, 2019

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in facebook, seesmic, social media, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have had a meetup.com account since I was using yahoo as my primary e-mail provider. For years my account was dormant because activities that I were interested in were either in another country or at a time when I could not participate. Recently I have found that activities are at times…

Google Plus is Shutting Down in August

Oct 19, 2018

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in facebook, social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room

Reading Time: 2 minutesBy shutting Google plus in August 2019 Google have shut down one of my favourite social networks. From the start I have said that it reminded me of Jaiku, an excellent, european alternative to Jaiku that never reached critical mass and so was sold to Google, which then shut it down and…

Preparing fondue

Apr 25, 2017

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in facebook, Switzerland

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Swiss Television archives shared this nice news item about how to prepare a fondue from 1969. It’s nice because we see the old way of preparing a fondue with the fluid burner rather than electric heaters. We also see the ingredients being placed in the caquelon.

Discussing News on Facebook

Jul 5, 2016

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in facebook, social media, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesDiscussing News on Facebook is not as interesting as it is on Google Plus. On Facebook publishers and friends tend to share and promote clickbait rather than articles that they have actively looked for and read. Google+ in contrast is a place where people surf the web reading news stories and when…

Social Media and The Human Return on Investment

Apr 23, 2016

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richard

in advertising, facebook, lifestream, social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking

Reading Time: 3 minutesSocial Media and the Human Return on Investment, because contrary to popular belief we use social networks to socialise, not to shop. As we grow older and more mature our close network of friends changes and evolves. We go from school friends to university friends and then to professional friends. In the…

Vanity fair is wrong to label Zuck as the top disruptor

Sep 9, 2015

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in facebook, social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesZuckerberg Tops Vanity Fair’s 2015 List of Disruptors Every successful social network first establishes a friendship network where a tight knit group of people interact with each other on a very frequent basis. In the case of facebook it was uni friends interacting with uni friends from the same campus. On twitter…

The Facebook and Friendfeed lifestye

Mar 17, 2009

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richard

in facebook, friendfeed, Real Time Web

Reading Time: 4 minutesFacebook and friendfeed are now the same thing. They both provide exactly the same thing but for different audiences. Facebook is a network of real friends, where you share everything with those that count on you as a friend. That’s where you get party pictures, relationship statuses and more. Friendfeed is where…

The twitter back channels

Feb 21, 2008

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in facebook, seesmic, social media, twitter

Reading Time: 3 minutesTwitter is one of those places that takes some time to get the hang of but once you do it’s going to suck you in and won’t spit you out till you’re exhausted. It’s a little bit like seesmic except that in this case you don’t look like you’re so in love…

Likemind Coffee morning in London

Jan 18, 2008

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in facebook, Post-university life, social media, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo nights ago whilst having a conversation about technology with Fooz on twitter I got a message from Jamie about the Likemind coffee morning in Central London that she thought might be of interest to me. I decided that I would go and it was worth the effort. From what I gather…

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