Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Facebook down: world fails to end

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

As I write this, it appears that Facebook is suffering some serious downtime. The main site’s been up and down like a yo-yo for the past 12 hours – and is now dead – and the mobile site occasionally springs to life for a few minutes… before disappearing again.
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Social media matters

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

It used to be easy defining “the media”: it was the TV, the radio, newspapers and magazines. Usually understood, easily-reached. And professional.

But the landscape’s changed – what is “the media” in 2010? Anybody can be a writer, a journalist, a reporter, a news anchor. They may not be listened to by anybody but it’s possible through blogs, podcasts and sites such as Facebook to broadcast (or narrowcast) to anybody.
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Brand new, you’re retro…

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Devised by Brazilian advertising agency Moma Propaganda for a campaign dubbed “Everything ages fast” for  client Maximidia Seminars, these posters depict retro adverts for your favourite “digital properties” – Faceboook, Skype, Twitter and YouTube.
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Are we ever truly unreachable?

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

How many ways can you contact a single individual? Off the top of my head, I can contact most of my friends via their… home phone, office phone, mobile phone, Skype phone (and chat), text, MSN/AIM etc, Facebook chat, Facebook email, ‘normal’ email, LinkedIn email and, of course, by knocking on their door.

So is it any wonder that, in this day and age we almost demand immediate response to our questions and queries?
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A blog post about not writing blog posts… more interesting than it sounds. Honest.

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

It’s been a while since I added anything to this lexicon of fine words. And there’s nothing worse than an attack of cobbler’s children*.

So then you’re faced with a blank screen and, of course, nothing in particular to talk about (or rant about, or rave about etc). But herein lies the point. Yes, there is one. Continue reading...

Job seekers: beware Facebook

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

According to research by careerbuilder.co.uk, the interweb increasingly plays a part in recruitment decisions, with 53 per cent of employers researching candidates on sites such as Facebook – and a further 12 per cent planning to start soon.
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A Facebook app to land you in trouble

Friday, August 8th, 2008

So I’m in the process of organising a school reunion at the moment – hello to fellow Hanson 88ers – and, as a consequence, a lot of us have added a Facebook app called “My School Friends”. Which is quite sweet.

As is often the case, the makers of the app want you to add some of their other applications too and promote them within “My School Friends” – including one called “Friends I Want To F*ck” (yes, the asterisk does appear).

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One IM to rule them all?

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

The theory was simple. The Internet would break down the barriers of communication and bring us all closer. It would bridge geographical divides and create a homogenous planet Earth where everybody was one single click away.

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