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B2Cloud Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30
Facebook Update Could Get You Robbed – http://bit.ly/6qs5V #
Social Media Helping Me Find Dinner!
The other night we were trying to decide where to go for dinner. Chapel street was the closest, but we go there all the time so were in desperate need of something new. I got on my i-phone opened urbanspoon and shook it up. After looking through a couple of places we found a restaurant that served middle eastern food, just behind Jam Factory. I had remembered seeing shishas once out the front of the restaurant but had never heard anything about it. After much debating about whether we should go there for dinner I decided that we would let … Continue
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Tagged advertisements, disgruntled customer, online reviews, opinion, social media, urbanspoon
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B2Cloud Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23
RT @mashable: SEARCH SHOWDOWN: Microsoft’s Plan to Win the Search War – http://bit.ly/1fRsT # Facebook plea in E.coli outbreak – http://bit.ly/14lCS3 # Yahoo's Missed Opportunity: The Social Web – http://tinyurl.com/kvlblr # Forget the Business Card. Just Google Me – http://bit.ly/4bs3S # Why will Google Wave succeed, in spite of itself? http://bit.ly/RKvnA # Myspace moving closer to its musical roots – purchasing iLike Social music service http://bit.ly/3zu1vR # Here come the 'Twitter, we did it first' lawsuits – http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10311438-36.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheSocial #
Twitter and the botnets
Facebook and Twitter were the subject of a Russian Denial of Service attack a couple of weeks back, aimed a silencing a Georgian blogger, in the latest example of the on-going Georgian-Russian war in cyberspace. Twitter was knocked offline by the attack. The mode of the attack is in dispute, it may have been a simple spam-and-link style attack, whereby users click on links in spam emails. However much more popular style of DDoS uses a distributed network of automated computers – or bots – to simultaneously hit the Twitter site, overloading its servers, and knocking it offline. Now it … Continue
It doesn't have to be Christmas for you to get excited about Giftware
For those of you who don’t know (as I didn’t before I picked it up), Giftrap is the official magazine of gift and homeware Australia. Ok, I’m sure you are thinking: “Giftware…she is really clutching at straws for blog ideas” However, the front cover of the July/August edition of Giftrap is a telling trend of the latest direction all business is pointed. Wedged between two little blue birds on the front cover we see the headline: ‘Social Media Special: Twitter and Blog’s made easy’ Within its pages can be found three articles of a very introductory nature detailing how social … Continue
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Tagged blog, business, Giftrap, magazine review, social media, twitter, Web 2.0
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Whirlpool, or storm in a tea cup?
With the phenomenal growth in social media and networking, the recruitment battleground has shifted from university campuses to the social networking sites of whirlpool, facebook and twitter. Gone are the days of face to face contact and now students are relying on posts and threads for information. Posts range from company and salary comparisons, determining the likely hood of success based on the number of candidates that have been contacted to cheat sheets for assessment tasks. Now, I’m not really “with it” – after all I’m not even on facebook. But I find the idea that students seem comfortable relying … Continue
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Tagged big four, facebook, job, professional services, recruiters, recruitment, whirlpool
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B2Cloud Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16
Best buy's example of a corporate using twitter – http://tinyurl.com/ntk696 # Never add your boss on Facebook – http://imgur.com/6zjNO.jpg # Sick of google reading your emails for ads? – http://bit.ly/jPt02 # Apple developing social network aggregator? – http://is.gd/2fXct # Preparing for the future of search – http://tinyurl.com/kplbvn # Hiring strategies shift toward social media – http://tinyurl.com/ns62kk # The Perils of Short Links: http://bit.ly/HZFcB – Did they miss a critical point, when the site disappears, so do millions of blog links? #
What is: RSS
For me the most daunting thing about the Internet is its pure scope (Google-ing Social Media returns 184 Million hits!). I have often sat in front of it stunned into inaction by the limitless possibilities or wasted hours going nowhere useful. You can find information about anything, anywhere, anytime and on almost anyone. How on earth can you manage this? How do you go about finding the “right” information for you? And once you do, how can you stay up to date? Thankfully I was pointed in the direction of RSS and it seems to be one tool in the … Continue
Posted in General Thoughts, How to guides
Tagged about, banking review, feed, New York Times, news, RSS, RSS feed, social media, update
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B2Cloud Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-09
Don't Keep Up With Social Technology – http://tinyurl.com/mlnkad # Skype shutdown flagged over licence dispute – http://tinyurl.com/lhyxht # Even babies are able to get on the Twitter band wagon…Tweeting from the womb! http://bit.ly/FAPmh # US Marines block web 2.0 http://bit.ly/4FIGDP #
Dating 2.0
As the internet changes the ways we interact with each other, and web 2.0 and social media change the way we interact with the internet, there is a curious lack of convergence in one area: online dating. Much has been made of the success of online dating, indeed eHarmony claims to have been behind 2% of marriages last year in the States. It has succeeding in bringing people to the internet, and people on the internet together – surely one of the primary aims of social media. Yet online dating sites are almost completely devoid of any sort of meaningful … Continue
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Tagged dating, eHarmony, facebook, Oasis Active, online dating, RSVP, social media, Web 2.0
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