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Fresh From @hitching and the Interwebs

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Bob Hitching

many thanks to Ericsson for hosting the Incoming Media demo at CTIA. here’s a pic. http://t.co/muiVgsyWI’m at Int’l CTIA WIRELESS – #CTIAw12 (New Orleans, LA) w/ 6 others http://t.co/wHh15mh3Going to CTIA in New Orleans (@ San Francisco International Airport (SFO) … Continue reading →

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Social Browsing on your iPhone with Safari Browser Extensions

Posted on June 28, 2010 by bob hitching

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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How to display approximately geo-located Tweets on a map

Posted on April 17, 2010 by bob hitching

Most 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 →

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GeoMeme Wins MySpace Developer Challenge

Posted on March 14, 2010 by bob hitching

How 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 →

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GeoMeme adds MySpace real-time local trends

Posted on March 4, 2010 by bob hitching

In 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 →

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Murdoch should worry less about the Googlebot and more about social media

Posted on November 14, 2009 by bob hitching

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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GeoMeme: measure and share real-time local twitter trends

Posted on September 13, 2009 by bob hitching

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

Posted on July 20, 2009 by bob hitching

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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Mobile Social Technology and Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG)

Posted on April 22, 2009 by bob hitching

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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10 cloud datasets that I’d like to mashup

Posted on March 15, 2009 by bob hitching

Cloud computing is being sold as a hosting architecture to provide instantly scalable on-demand computing power, storage and bandwidth. “The cloud’s resources scale with user demands. Pay only for what you use” says RackSpace, the latest to join the cloud … Continue reading →

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10 ways to combine your blog with your micro-blogging

Posted on February 19, 2009 by bob hitching

Your micro-blogging on Twitter or FriendFeed is topical. Your blog is quality. Both are valuable. How can you combine the two? 1. Display your FriendFeed content on your blog using an embeddable widget: 2. Display your latest Twitter updates on … Continue reading →

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Social data portability: who benefits?

Posted on December 22, 2008 by bob hitching

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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