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The Dangers of Paying Bloggers

You might have happened across this story over the last couple of weeks. It highlights a lot of the dangers associated with so-called “blogger outreach” – especially when it’s outsourced to people who clearly don’t understand how it can work when done properly.

The upshot of the story is this. A company claiming to represent the bingo wing (or whatever the terminology is) of gambling firm 888… >> continued | 3 Comments

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Anyone want a Google Wave invite?

OK – so I thought I’d used up all my invites, but that’s apparently because I can’t count up to 10. So it turns out I’ve got 1 left and really all my normal friends who, frankly, spend their days in more constructive ways couldn’t really give a shit. >> continued | 14 Comments

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Google Wave Invite Arrives!

This is the most exciting day of my life. I’ve got a Google Wave invite (I might be exaggerating about how excited I actually am!) Thus I can’t tell you shit about it. >> continued | 3 Comments

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Meeting Strangers from Facebook

Yeah. I know. It sounds seedy. Nontheless, I spent the weekend in Nottingham with a bunch of people that hitherto I’d only known through Facebook. >> continued | 14 Comments

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Tumblr is better than Twitter. Fact.

I’ve been giving Twitter a hard time for ages now. It’s well documented that it is insecure (and I know for a fact that problems that got massive coverage a couple of weeks ago are still going strong) and for me it has no features to speak of… only limitations. >> continued | 6 Comments

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Where Friends Reunited went wrong

So Friends Reunited is in a fire sale> for a fraction of the reported £170,000,000 it was “worth” 5 years ago when ITV bought it. >> continued | 1 Comment

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