Tag Archives: social media

2 Kool 4 Skool

By Dhiren | Published: August 17, 2009
I spotted this over @boingboing today, a kid lip syncing over hip-hop tracks in the 5th Avenue Apple Store in NY. Apparently he’s done this quite a few times, the clips are below: Of course this wasn’t intentional and I’m sure that Apple didn’t sit in their Bose-speaker-decked offices fabricating all of this (one hopes [...]
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Shades

By Dhiren | Published: July 17, 2009
I was flicking through Vice the other day and I spotted Oakley’s ads for their new range of shades. At the bottom of their full page ad, I spotted a URL to their youtube channel called armchair sessions. Whilst there are quite a few brands investing in branded content at the moment, I think armchair [...]
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Social Search usage increases

By Dhiren | Published: May 31, 2009
I was reading a good post today on Steve Rubel’s blog about Social Search, and how Twitter Search is gaining a sharp increase in usage. I’ve written about Social Search on a number of occasions, but Steve’s post got me thinking… So far Twitter Search ranks information purely on temporal factors; in comparison Google ranks [...]
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Us vs. Them

By Dhiren | Published: April 28, 2009
So…I’m a bit late to air my thoughts about this debate, however, I felt I needed to understand the debate before I made any comments. Traditional PR agencies vs. Digital Shops, SEO houses and Social Media Agencies—who’s better equipped at utilising new methods of Online PR and leading clients into digital? A rather tough question [...]
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Be nice or leave

By Dhiren | Published: April 18, 2009
Just an excellent presso from Faris Yakob, it just had to be shared.
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Twitter is a fad!

By Dhiren | Published: February 27, 2009
Recently I was in a meeting where somebody said twitter was a fad, that it will die and people WILL get bored. I guess there are no write or wrong answers to a statement like that, maybe the bird will tip off its perch, who knows! What I am sure about is the new trend [...]
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Shirky @ the ICA

By Dhiren | Published: February 4, 2009
I went to see Clay Shirky at the ICA today, it’s always good to listen to him speak about all things collaboration and social media. I’ll spare all the finer points of his seminar as I don’t want to turn this into another collaboration/social meeja blog post. If you haven’t heard him speak before, it’s [...]
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Apparently I’m not too irritating…

By Dhiren | Published: January 12, 2009
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Digital Freegans

By Dhiren | Published: January 4, 2009
Not too long ago I was watching a TV program about Freeganism and Freegans, it was a Cutting Edge style show, not quite sure what channel it was on. It got me thinking… The web is turning people into Digital Freegans, people who use the webs’ free resources as alternatives to traditional paid for sources [...]
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Google going Social

By Dhiren | Published: December 31, 2008
I suppose none of us have been oblivious to the birth of Google Search Wiki in recent weeks, I’ve already heard lot’s of people say “hang on a sec, it’s not really a wiki”. Search Wiki at the moment serves a purpose for Google account holders, who want to annotate, customize and improve the quality [...]
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The value of listening

By Dhiren | Published: December 5, 2008
I always notice that when people start talking about Social Media they often refer to it as a new method of talking to audiences, customers and people with shared interests. I suppose none of this is untrue, however, I rarely hear people refer to Social Media as an alternative method of LISTENING to audiences, customers [...]
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