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Aug 12, 2010, 3:47 pm
Facebook have just added an alert when I checked out the BullyingUK Facebook page in Admin mode, on August 23rd 2010 Facebook will remove the Boxes tab and also change the width of your Facebook page.
This applies only to Facebook Brand (Fan) pages and not users profiles. If you have items in... Comment - Like
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Jun 15, 2010, 12:28 pm
Twitter is going live this week with it's "Places" feature, this new style of location aware tweeting allows you to tie a named location like a shop, cafe or cinema to your tweets. The old location system was based on Coordinates longitude and latitude that wasn't very user friendly.
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Jun 13, 2010, 11:35 am
Twitter has been having a lot of problems over the last week, from slow time lines to API overloads when you try and tweet, Twitter says they are aware of the problems and are working to resolve them.
The current update from last night is "We’re seeing periodic high rates of errors on Twitt... Comment - Like
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Jun 11, 2010, 11:15 pm
A friend of mine was asking me about accessories for the new iPhone 4 so I thought I would take a look around and see what Apple iPhone 4 Accessories I could find.
So far it's thin on the ground, Screen protectors, and cases shaped to fit the iPhone 4, its thinner than previous iPhones so unl... Comment - Like
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Jun 10, 2010, 11:54 pm
New projects regularly require new domain names to go with them, however you should always be mindful that paying an agency to register a domain for you can be very costly given that most domains actually cost less than £10 if you register them yourselves.
Cheap domain names from Discount D... Comment - Like
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Jun 4, 2010, 12:34 pm
As you know this site is as much about the people behind the technology as the technology itself, and I really like to take the opportunity to highlight when Social Media has had an unexpected impact.
The other day I was having a bit of a head scratch about some new bugs that had appea... Comment - Like
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Jun 2, 2010, 7:59 pm
I wrote about Twibbon when it first launched, since then they have really fleshed out their service adding Facebook support as well as Twitter and also adding a few personalisation options to your campaign.
JustGiving as you will all be aware of is the UK's leading donation service provider m... Comment - Like
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May 19, 2010, 6:39 pm
WOOHOO Google have announced that Wave it's collaborative authoring service is now available to everyone, since Wave was released as invite only Google have fixed a huge number of bugs and added loads of user requested features.
Go ahead and check it out wave.google.com and head over here for... Comment - Like
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May 17, 2010, 6:31 pm
I don't know about you but I struggle some days to keep on top of all the exciting prizes Raffle.it add to their prize board, making sure your supporters are aware of them as well can be a challenge.
Today I fired of a Tweet to Pascal Head Raffler of Raffle.it asking for an easy way to add Ra... Comment - Like
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May 9, 2010, 3:25 pm
Twitter is readying a major new feature for developers to build into their apps and this is one that everyone is going to want to use once it's available. “Twannotations” Twitters term for Annotation, that is extra information added to a core object in this case a Tweet.
We are all very u... Comment - Like
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May 9, 2010, 10:14 am
A change to Facebook is having an unintended impact on Charity / Non-profits, Howard Lake of UK Fundraising let me know that the change was already having a negative impact on charities.
Let me explain what has happened, Facebook created a system called "Pages" a few years ago this system was suppos... Comment - Like
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May 1, 2010, 11:40 am
And so it came to pass Twitter has launched their first official "Twitter" branded client for the mobile platforms. Android is the first to get the Twitter love but of course Tweetie 2 for iPhone has been bought and will be rebranded as Twitter for iPhone in a few weeks time.
So how does Twit... Comment - Like
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Apr 27, 2010, 10:10 pm
I often forget how important it is to keep my anti-virus software uptodate and just as importantly to update the version of the software I am are using as well. Viruses change all the time and Anti-virus creators have to constantly evolve how their software works to keep up with the virus authors.
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Apr 27, 2010, 3:00 pm
First off I have to give props to @TheSourceress for mentioning this to me, it is possible to add Google Analytics to you Facebook Page. I'm kicking myself that I didn't think of this myself as it's based on a very old way of tracking web impressions.
Ok first off why a normal Google Analytic... Comment - Like
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Apr 22, 2010, 1:06 pm
Article websites have been around for ages but can be a useful source of new readers and sometimes Backlinks, If you take the time to write and Submit Articles to these directories on a topic that you know a lot about it can really help to reach new people.
In addition to new readers some sit... Comment - Like
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Apr 22, 2010, 12:56 pm
When Wix asked me to write about their free website service how could I say no?
I have been a huge fan of their Flash based website builder for years.
I was lucky enough to be invited into the closed beta a few years ago and was thrilled at how easy it was to create engaging websites ... Comment - Like
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Apr 22, 2010, 8:28 am
Today the very fabric of Online Fundraising has been ripped apart with Facebooks announcement of Open Graph and the Graph API. In short Facebook just allowed you to collect and store ANY data a user is willing to share with you.
On top of that the amount and types of data that Open Graph will... Comment - Like
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Apr 21, 2010, 9:46 pm
To connect your website to Facebook visit the new Insights page and follow this guide, this is a new area of Facebook that gives brand new statistics about Interaction on Facebook.
Click on the Green "Insights for your domain" in the popup box you will be asked for some information and given ... Comment - Like
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Apr 21, 2010, 7:17 pm
First of the big announcements Facebook will combine all Facebook connect permissions into a single dialog, also developers will be able to store data retrieved via api for ever! no more 24 hour limit.
Facebook concentrating on connecting the social graph allowing sites to connect and ... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2010, 9:59 pm
And so it comes to pass that 400 Million people world wide from now on "Like" brands pages rather than Become a Fan.
Will their be a backlash this time? Probably this is an interesting move on Facebook's part and it will be interesting to see how this fits in with the new "Like" feature Faceb... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2010, 8:35 pm
Facebook have killed off their super slimmed down "lite" site, launched last year it was a test site used to see how users would react to a less cluttered Facebook and to learn I suspect a bit about creating efficient low latency code.
Facebook of late has become a bit glitchy again lots of probl... Comment - Like
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Apr 19, 2010, 6:47 pm
Here is a good breakdown of what a developer sees for every Tweet you send, a huge amount of additional data can be requested and used by developers for each tweet. This is the same data used by Google for Real Time Search, the data below is written in JSON as Twitter may be dropping XML from v2 of ... Comment - Like
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Apr 15, 2010, 4:18 pm
I don’t know about you but I find it a real pain to have to keep going round to friends houses to fix what ever problem they are having with their computer and don’t get me started on relatives.
That’s why I use remote access software to allow me to access my friends and relatives computers... Comment - Like
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Apr 15, 2010, 4:05 pm
Staying backed up is critical these days with so many ways data can be lost, from viruses to just a slip of the finger or hardware failure no one wants to loose years of work.
That’s where iDrive comes in an online backup service to store all your important files in the cloud (on the internet) ... Comment - Like
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Apr 13, 2010, 2:18 pm
Twitter has died, FailWhale is in effect... run for the hills or go grab a coffee... more as we get it.
Wonder if this has anything to do with the new adverts going live later today... any time now actually
Twitter.com is up and down like a YoYo and Twitter clients are returning stale data or ... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2010, 7:03 pm
Apple are holding a developer preview session to announce all the new features of version 4.0 of the iPhone operation system.
Expectations are high for multitasking as part of the 4.0 release, along with an Apple operated advertising network built for the iPhone. Read on to see what is announced.... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2010, 3:13 pm
AOL has given an indication that they want to sell Bebo, possibly by the end of May or close the network down completely. I know a few charities are using Bebo and have a healthy network of connections so lets talk about preserving those connections best we can.
Sadly AOL feels that Bebo isn'... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2010, 12:35 pm
One of my favorite ways to manage Twitter is to use TweetSpinner, it has a huge number of automated tools that can make some of the more boring tasks of Twitter an automated afair.
Archive your DM's
DeSpam your DM inbox
Prune dead accounts
Purge followers not following you back
Rotate yo... Comment - Like
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Apr 6, 2010, 4:38 pm
This is probably the best news I've heard all year for Digital Fundraising, JustGiving the UK's leading charity donation site has just launched an iPhone app.
The app has a number of very useful features for Fundraisiers including the ability to get a push notification every time someone ... Comment - Like
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Apr 4, 2010, 2:15 pm
So I am aware of the general feeling towards your Twitter follower account among some of the Twitter community, in short they feel that your follower count is irrelevant other than for an Ego stroke.
I almost find myself agreeing with them accept for one thing they are missing, the future of Soci... Comment - Like
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Apr 2, 2010, 10:07 am
New product feature from Facebook, Community Pages basically they are Brand Fan Pages but for community causes.
The main problem with Facebook pages was that anyone could setup a Coca Cola or other brand term page to protest or raise awareness or just have a general gripe.
Over time that mea... Comment - Like
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Apr 2, 2010, 10:01 am
Twitter have made a substantial change to how their search system works, as expected Twitter have added a relevancy engine that will show you not just any tweets for a search term but the most popular (retweeted) tweets for that term at any given time.
We don't no exactly how the engine is wo... Comment - Like
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Mar 31, 2010, 10:41 am
Immediate release
One of the UK's most innovative charities, Bullying UK has been chosen by Apple (makers of iphones and ipods) to be featured in their App Store.
The BullyingUK iPhone app includes all Bullying UK's award winning advice in the palm of the user's hand and has been creat... Comment - Like
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Mar 30, 2010, 3:28 pm
Ok so this is big news, Facebook have been sending around a document to advertisers about dropping "Become a Fan" and instead using the "Like" option you will be familiar with under status updates.
This is consitent with rumors I have been reading about "Like" being added as a Facebook Connect fe... Comment - Like
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Mar 28, 2010, 1:32 pm
So we all know that the quickest way for a Facebook Fan page to grow quickly is to get people using the Suggest to Friends link that appears on every Fan page.
Problem is it can take a while if a user has a lot of friends, anything over a few hundred and most users won't bother.
Here is a ... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2010, 8:33 pm
With 400 Million Members Facebook has a huge presence on the web and it's full of socially conscious people that love to show their support for causes they care about.
Thing is time is limited so here are my favorite ways to use my time on Facebook to support good causes.
Become a Fan
Mos... Comment - Like
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