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31 Mar, 2009

Newspaper passe

Posted by: j pimmel In: digital|innovation|social media

So The Guardian is to begin publishing exclusively to Twitter, which I can only assume will real-time article syndication compared to the existing RSS syndication which heaves 20-30 articles at fixed intervals throughout the day. Given the trouble that the newspaper publishing industries around the globe seem to be having we can safely assume plenty of [...]

25 Mar, 2009

Beautiful Teams

Posted by: j pimmel In: digital|innovation|leadership

I’m a great believer in teams; we all have our horror stories about failing teams, some of us will even have had the good fortune to have worked in great teams. That said, great teams aren’t common nor are they easy to assemble or maintain; any great team will have it’s share of dirt along [...]

16 Feb, 2009

… is it Tweet or fade away?

Posted by: j pimmel In: digital|innovation|social media

As a two week young initiate to Twitter and an erstwhile resister of the preceding social media wave - Facebook, MySpace, Bebo - I’m a long way off hyping (or hoping) that Twitter will change our lives or some such. Yet, this fast growing, highly emulsified blend of social hubbub and content is expanding – pulsing – at a stunning [...]

DailyBooth was launched this week, providing those with a love of looking into mirrors the means to catalog their daily look for time immemorial (or at least perhaps a couple of weeks). Users document their lives through a timeline of photos of their lives that they take and can share, originally as inspired by Youtube [...]