Recent Posts- Social Browsing on your iPhone with Safari Browser Extensions June 27, 2010Plug-ins, add-ons, extensions – every desktop browser supports them: Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari. Third party developers can easily add features to these web browsers to enhance our web browsing pleasure. But what about the mobile browser on … Continue reading → […]
- GeoMeme adds Google Buzz to detect real-time geo-located trends May 23, 2010If you’ve been using Google Buzz on a mobile phone recently, you would know that you can choose between two filters to the real-time stream of content: Social – choose ‘Following’ to filter the stream based on your social graph, … Continue reading → […]
- Social Recommendations For Every Site On The Web April 29, 2010Today Facebook announced that over 50,000 websites have implemented Social Plugins in the first week since their launch. My favorite Social Plugin is ‘Recommendations’ which lists the pages on a site which have enjoyed the most Sharing activity by Facebook … Continue reading → […]
- How to display approximately geo-located Tweets on a map April 17, 2010Most geo mashups such as GeoMeme display Tweets and other geo-located content as points on a map, based on exact latitude/longitude coordinates. Easy. At the inaugural Chirp Conference this week, Twitter released its Places feature which instead allows Tweets to … Continue reading → […]
- GeoMeme Wins MySpace Developer Challenge March 14, 2010How exciting! My pet project GeoMeme has been awarded ‘Most innovative use of the Real-Time Stream API’ in the MySpace Developer Challenge. The awards were judged by Mike Jones, MySpace’s new Co-President, and Ron Conway, renowned angel investor, and David … Continue reading → […]
- GeoMeme adds MySpace real-time local trends March 3, 2010In other news, GeoMeme now measures real-time local trends based on both MySpace and Twitter content. GeoMeme uses the new Real-Time Stream API from MySpace to tap into the flood of geo-located updates being posted by MySpace users all around … Continue reading → […]
- Mobile awesomeness, innovation and disruption March 3, 2010The good people at MitchelLake recently asked me to write an article about mobile technology. So I created a list of awesomeness, innovation and disruption, including topics such as ‘Mobile is big’, ‘Phones are getting better’, and ‘People pay for … Continue reading → […]
- Murdoch should worry less about the Googlebot and more about social media November 13, 2009I remember in January 2000, old media mogul Rupert Murdoch said he was not going to waste his money buying any ‘dotcom’ upstarts. The very next day, AOL bought Time Warner. Not the other way around! Murdoch had apparently failed … Continue reading → […]
- OpenAustralia Hackfest: ‘Mobile + Geo + Social’ slides November 11, 2009I popped into the OpenAustralia Hackfest at the weekend to learn and talk about some of the latest developments in the Gov2.0 revolution. There are now some quite interesting public datasets available, and the developer community is hard at work … Continue reading → […]
- Location-aware mobile web apps using Google Maps v3 + geolocation November 10, 2009When hiring Engineers, I always look for evidence of pet projects, so recently I thought it was fair to create one of my own: GeoMeme, the fun way to measure and share real-time local twitter trends. Visitors to GeoMeme choose … Continue reading → […]
- Social Browsing on your iPhone with Safari Browser Extensions June 27, 2010
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Social Browsing on your iPhone with Safari Browser Extensions
Plug-ins, add-ons, extensions – every desktop browser supports them: Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari. Third party developers can easily add features to these web browsers to enhance our web browsing pleasure. But what about the mobile browser on … Continue reading
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Tagged browser extensions, facebook, google buzz, iPhone, linkedin, mobile, mobile safari, social, social extensions, social plugins, twitter
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GeoMeme adds Google Buzz to detect real-time geo-located trends
If you’ve been using Google Buzz on a mobile phone recently, you would know that you can choose between two filters to the real-time stream of content: Social – choose ‘Following’ to filter the stream based on your social graph, … Continue reading
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Tagged geo, geolocation, geomeme, google buzz, linkedin, mobile, social
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Murdoch should worry less about the Googlebot and more about social media
I remember in January 2000, old media mogul Rupert Murdoch said he was not going to waste his money buying any ‘dotcom’ upstarts. The very next day, AOL bought Time Warner. Not the other way around! Murdoch had apparently failed … Continue reading
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Tagged aol, facebook, friendfeed, google, google social search, googlebot, murdoch, news, retweet, social, twitter
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OpenAustralia Hackfest: ‘Mobile + Geo + Social’ slides
I popped into the OpenAustralia Hackfest at the weekend to learn and talk about some of the latest developments in the Gov2.0 revolution. There are now some quite interesting public datasets available, and the developer community is hard at work … Continue reading
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Tagged geo, gov2.0, linkedin, mobile, openaustralia, social
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GeoMeme: measure and share real-time local twitter trends
I am pleased to announce the launch of GeoMeme, the fun way to measure and share real-time local twitter trends. I got thinking about this when a recent Los Angeles earthquake was being measured in tweets per second rather than … Continue reading
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How to measure Twitter trending topics
2009 has already seen some big Twitter moments, including Michael Jackson’s death and memorial service, #iranelection, Oprah’s mainstreaming, and the race between @aplusk and @cnn to reach 1 million followers. But how can we objectively measure and compare the scale … Continue reading
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Tagged geo, linkedin, magnitude, magnitwude, mobile, social, trending topic, twitter
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Wave goodbye to spam
Google Wave combines the best of email, instant messaging and real-time collaborative editing into a new form of online communication. The email paradigm of ‘send and receive’ is replaced with a model of hosted conversations, in which “people can communicate … Continue reading
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Tagged captcha, google friend connect, google wave, linkedin, recaptcha, social
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Mobile Social Technology and Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG)
Today I spent an enjoyable couple of hours at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), learning about Multi Platform Content, and talking about Mobile Social Technology & Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG). We examined some emerging mobile social technologies, … Continue reading
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Tagged alternate reality, arg, google latitude, linkedin, malak0, mobile, photosynth, social, star trek, startrekarg, twitpic, twitter, twittervision, xumii
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What’s the difference between user generated content and user generated rubbish? Comments please…
Some user generated content (UGC) is genuine, honest, credible, reputable, trustworthy, valuable, quality information. But some is rubbish (let’s call that UGR), including deliberately misleading propaganda, biased blog comments, bogus product reviews, spam, veiled advertising, and bad poetry (or is … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, disqus, ebay, friend connect, intense debate, linkedin, lonely planet, quality, reputation, sezwho, social, techno, tripadvisor, ugc, user generated content
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Social data portability: who benefits?
In 2006, a certain old-media tycoon reportedly asked Mark Zuckerberg, the 20-something founder of Facebook, “how can I build a social network like Facebook?” Zuckerberg replied “You can’t!” What Zuckerberg meant was that Facebook hadn’t set out to ‘build’ a … Continue reading
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Tagged facebook connect, google friend connect, linkedin, myspace, oauth, openid, snapshot, social, techno, twitter
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SearchWiki + OpenSocial = mainstream social search?
Google today launched a rather massive change to its core search product. SearchWiki adds some innocuous buttons to your search results page, enabling Digg -style voting and Friendfeed -style commenting on each result. I think this feature might prove valuable … Continue reading
Can I break the internet with an infinite social feedback loop?
Thought for the day… if my Facebook status is updated by my Twitter feed, or Jaiku, and gets reported in my Plaxo Pulse, which is spotted by my FriendFeed, which sends an update to Twitter, which updates my Facebook status … Continue reading
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