Web Strategy Micksup

Saw an invite for Social Median on Read/Write Web and thought I’d try it over morning coffee.
It’s basically a more social version of Digg combined to be a news reader. But it doesn’t build on my feeds, or didn’t seem to, and didn’t give me a hell of a lot more than other aggregators. [...]

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(New screencast software+Viddler makes a better application review!)
Video review of Slice the Pie. An app where you can participate in the music industry. I only tested one part, but I made 3 pence (UK) which was great.

 
Verdict:
Slice of the Pie
6/10
 
Actually the UK Pounds thing is probably a mistake. US Dollars is still the [...]

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Barnes and Noble have launched a “how-to” application called Quamut.
(Video review has been removed until I can find a better screencast app…)
First thing to note is that I’m not sure how to pronounce the name. Not a great start. Then they have a clever but equally mystifying tag line (which appears to be trademarked) - [...]

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Quick review of Hot or Not extension Restyleme (via Killerstartups).
Basically you upload a picture and people give you the thumbs up or thumbs down across a range of categories like hair, accessories and smile. So it’s not saving the planet, but it is a little bit of fun and you might get some honest advice [...]

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I’m going to start trying to do an application review each day. I found a cool way I can use Skitch and Jing to put myself in the video and still make it a quick screencast.
Here is my first one;
EMC Digital Footprint Calculator Screencast  - (warning, old screencasts app used, so it’s a bit ugly…)
EMC [...]

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charade #16 answer
Originally uploaded by ndrwfgg

(Note: If you are one of my really geeky friends, you can probably click away, but you’re friends might be interested.)
Recently I did a workshop for Government people who wanted to know the basics about web 2.0 applications (blogs, micro, wiki’s, etc). It was good fun and there [...]

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There is a big of buzz around FriendFeed right now and lots of people as asking why.
I did a quick video review of FriendFeed here if you want to see what it’s about.
Follow Mick Liubinskas on FriendFeed here. 
Basically it let’s you aggregate your the feeds of different applications and networks and show them in one [...]

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I just saw the Commoncraft video of Twitter in plain English as shown below. It’s beautiful in so many ways.
Firstly, it’s just a pleasure to watch. It’s fun and light and easy.
Secondly, it tells the story to the point and with a lovely light layer of interestingness (Van Halen Rawks!).
Thirdly, Twitter was able to be [...]

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I disagree with Mike from TechCrunch’s conclusion that Guy Kawasaki’s AllTop is lame. RSS is still only known and used by the geeks and the time is coming where the average netizen wants to read more stuff they are interested in. Right now they go to a few news sites and maybe search to find [...]

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Quick review tonight of Socialthing. It basically pulls in a lot of feeds (Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Digg, Youtube, Delicious) and let’s you interact as much as possible. Like Friendfeed, but apparently even easier. These guys would benefit from a little widget to let me plug a micro version on my blog?
In testing, I had a [...]

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Japanese train sexOriginally uploaded by Joe Jones
I’ve recently started working with a new client who has built some amazing tools for software developers.
The tool streamlines the process of development, QA, staging and production. Making it faster and more reliable. It makes them hum like a Japanese rail service (hence the pic).
They haven’t launched [...]

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My Birds
Originally uploaded by matticgn
I’m very curious to know how everybody Twitters?
I use;

Twhirl mostly (new)
Twitter.com sometimes
m.twitter.com on the run
Fring on the phone sometiems
Seesmic, although I don’t do it much
Blog posting via Twitter Tools for Wordpress

That’s a lot.
What about you?
And please pass this on to others so we can get some bigger numbers;
Cheers
The other [...]

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Twitxr.com - Public timeline - cool rating of 8Originally uploaded by bigmick

Signed up.
Found some friends.
Sent an update from my phone (after prodding from bigyahu)
Sent an update from the web
Looked at my local traffic.
Wow, great mashup of friends, pics and maps.
A “Wow that’s cool rating of 8 actually”.
Yet to see if it becomes a [...]

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@mpesce and @nickhodge and @twitter - better?
Originally uploaded by bigmick
(Haven’t blogged for a while, so busy, but here is a quick one..)
I had a go at Twitter the other day, and it looked like I was having a go at some of my Twitter friends. Nick Hodge particularly. But I wasn’t.
I was lamenting [...]

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test tube flowers
Originally uploaded by cyancey
I did a presentation this morning to a great bunch of marketing and media people in Australian Government organisations.
One of their biggest challenges is that they want to do more web 2.0 stuff, but the legal eagles won’t let them try and the IT guys won’t help them [...]

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