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Advanced Search: Facebook gets it slightly wrong again

by on July 16, 2010 in cloudcomputing, disciplines, socialmedia, socialnetworks, technology

Today I actually used Facebook for something. My partner wanted to find women’s networking groups online, and I suggested Facebook. Of course, she didn’t listen to me so I decided to have a look myself. Immediately, I came up against a problem. I wanted to search for groups in London, but couldn’t find an easy [...]

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What’s the sum total of all the computing power in the world?

by on May 21, 2010 in computing, technology

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes OK, so it’s the kind of question a child would ask, but I do have a child’s mind, especially on a Friday. Actually I should have posted about this yesterday because, according to my new blog schedule Thursday is tech day, but I forgot. Actually, that’s a lie. I was [...]

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The UK Election Social Media Dashboard: What I learned

by on May 7, 2010 in monitoring, RSS, socialmedia, technology, Twitter, visualisation

Estimated reading time: 1.5 minutes So the dust is still settling – hasn’t actually settled yet because we have a hung parliament so all the politicians will be running around with their knees bent, flapping their arms and clucking and pecking at each other relentlessly until one of them, with a gigantic squawk, lays a [...]

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Just how fast does a PC need to be?

by on May 6, 2010 in cloudcomputing, computing, technology

Estimated reading time: 2.5 minutes (plus 4:13 if you watch the video all the way through) In an effort to get myself back into blogging habits, and to make sure I’m up to date with everything I need to be up to date with, I’ve decided to set myself a schedule. So, today is tech [...]

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Everything does something, but nothing does everything

by on May 5, 2010 in cloudcomputing, measurement, monitoring, RSS, socialmedia, technology

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to monitor, capture, measure and report. The good news is that there are ways of doing all of these. The bad news? None of them do it all. Here’s the current state of play: Google Reader is really good for monitoring and going back through old posts, [...]

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Who are: @frosty_snow, @geoff_bronson, @gavin_henderson, @peter_bently?

by on April 17, 2010 in cloudcomputing, measurement, monitoring, reputationmanagement, search, technology, trends, Twitter, visualisation

This morning I took a quick look at what people were saying on the UK Election Social Media Dashboard. I noticed a few spikes on Twitter for George Osborne. This was strange. Osborne hasn’t figured particularly highly so far, and when he has, it’s been associated with spikes for his contemporaries Darling and Cable. So [...]

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It’s never been easier to engage, so if people don’t…

by on April 14, 2010 in cloudcomputing, measurement, monitoring, socialmedia, socialnews, socialvideo, technology, trends, Twitter, visualisation

… then we’re all going to hell in a hand cart. Probably. A bit. Sounds a bit alarmist I know, but here’s my take on this. In the past, I’ve been fairly lackadaisical about politics. I thought I had left-wing leanings when I was younger but then who doesn’t/didn’t? At least I wasn’t a hippy [...]

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Journeys in monitoring and measurement

by on March 29, 2010 in cloudcomputing, measurement, monitoring, reputationmanagement, research, technology

Over the past few weeks – months, even – I’ve been looking into ways to monitor what’s being said ‘out there’, and then measure it in a meaningful way. My conclusion? There are plenty of tools out there that can almost do the job, but most of them fail in some significant way. Yahoo Pipes [...]

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What are people saying about… the iPad, iPhone and iPod?

by on January 29, 2010 in blogs, brands, monitoring, RSS, search, strategy, technology, Twitter, visualisation

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past week, you’ll know all about the iPad, Apple’s new wunderkit – what it has, what it has not, what it’s for, what it’s not for, and so on. Fortunately, the term ‘iPad’ is very quick and easy to search for. So, it’s a doddle to [...]

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