Debate: can we afford to allow our efforts to be spread across our big wide nation, or do we need to focus them on a single city? And if so, what city?
I’m a big believer that despite all the great technology, nothing yet beats having people in the same area and bumping into them time [...]
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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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Pot of Gold
Originally uploaded by tao_zhyn
“I’ve got lots of users, I’m going to start making lots of money soon!”
I hear a lot of new businesses talk about how much money they will make when they get big through advertising but I’m not sure they realise [...]
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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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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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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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Credits as business modelOriginally uploaded by bigmick
I remember lots of startups in web 1.0 that tried making web credits a business. I saw today that it’s Jib Jab’s way. They give you 50 credits, charge 30 credits per send, so the next one you want to send, you have to fork out [...]
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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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So I’m exactly double what Google promised me early on with Gmail. 1,000 MB offer and I’ve shot past. But they haven’t even bugged me for money. In fact, they have said that I can triple from now and still be ok. And by then it might be 10 gig.
Nuts?
I’m sure the business guys out [...]
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seesaw crossing
Originally uploaded by rachaelvoorhees
Today I was lamenting that I’m not spending enough time analyzing the results of my work. A product of trying to do too much and being excitedly distracted by my toys (Twitter, Seesmic, this blog, WOW stead). It generally means you don’t get better at what you do and [...]
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2web
Originally uploaded by bigmick
We did the live recording of the 2web crew podcast and today I got to be special guest. Cool.
Podcast
Discussion
Thanks for the fun.
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