Web Strategy Micksup

Seconds after birth

Originally uploaded by dhgoodman

I just started working with Xumii and as a part of it, we launched their blog this morning. Very exciting.
Why is it exciting?
Well, it’s certainly not my first. I’m estimating that I’ve started more than 50 blogs [...]

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Saw an invite for

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Barcamp Parliament House

Originally uploaded by bigmick

So we’ve got some big ones coming up…
Firstly…
Barcamp Canberra is on Saturday April 19th. A week and a bit. If you’re in Canberra, you should definitely go. Even if you are only someone who loves tech, or loves the Internet [...]

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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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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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twitter has tiny skip link Originally uploaded by bigmick

“Invite Your Friends, Or Go!”
I just created a Pollenizer account on Twitter and noticed that it was trying really, really hard to make me find or add friends. The skip link was so tiny, and hidden in the top left.
We all know that Facebook [...]

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Stalker mode
Originally uploaded by bigmick
There is two sides to social metrics. The business side and the user side. This screenshot is one of my first views of how LinkedIn is trying to add more value by letting me see who’s looking at my profile.
It was an interesting experience. I felt like I was [...]

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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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Afraid of Super Wall?
Originally uploaded by bigmick
Just noticed this when Super Wall tried again (in vain) to be added by me. Not a chance!
“Afraid of abuse..?”
Wow, that’s pretty powerful. I must say I feel Facebook knows what’s going on inside it’s app and reacts pretty quickly to give customers the option to ditch [...]

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