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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 [...]

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 [...]