Just Another Social Profile Really

According to reports Ashton Kutcher, the most followed individual on Twitter, is thinking of closing his account. His reason? He fears that a planned Twitter TV show could encourage civilians to stalk celebrities like Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore.
Whilst I obviously don’t condone stalking in any way, I have to say that this news, [...]

About a month ago I wrote about a rather disappointing experience I had with Gaucho, the chain of Argentinian steak restaurants. To summarise what happened, I had a lovely meal there but when my jacket was brought back from the cloak-room, my iPod was missing and despite repeated telephone discussions with the manager of the [...]

Yes, yes, yes, another post about Twitter, I know. This one has a point at least. Well. Kind of.
A few weeks back I spoke at the 2nd of the excellent Media140 conferences, this one looking at the way that the real-time web is impacting brands. The guys at Media140 recorded my session on why & [...]

Well, what a week that was. Trafigura, Jan Moir and Ian & TFL: three separate incidents, all unrelated other than the fact that, to greater or lesser degrees, mobiles & Twitter played a large part in their being resolved/gaining mainstream coverage.
In the case of Trafigura, Carter-Ruck almost certainly caved more quickly than they would have [...]

I’ve just been sent the rather hilarious image above in an email (it seems to have started here). By now, you’ve probably been sent it too. The reason I’m posting it, other than so that those who haven’t been sent it can have a laugh at the sheer idiocy of the actions depicted, is because [...]

I’ve been working on several Twitter project for clients recently and the first of these went live this week: it’s a map, powered by Tweets, to track the real-time effect of  hayfever on sufferers in the UK.

To populate the map people just have to send a tweet with the tag #atishoo, the first part of [...]

I love the internet, I really do. Not just the fact that it comes up with things like this & this but because it really is a way of meeting new people and finding things you never would have done otherwise. For instance last year I spoke at SMX London (where I’ll be again in [...]

TechCrunch have reported on an announcement by Facebook that it will be making a series of changes to the way in which it presents & mixes content, including an increase in the speed at which the status updates are, well, updated. As TechCrunch report:
Facebook is…speeding up the updates that populate the news feeds on everyone’s [...]

So, the echo chamber that is the world of social media marketing has been ringing today with the ‘news’ that sweets brand Skittles has completely turned its corporate site over to Twitter, flickr & wikipedia amongst others. As New Media Age explains:
Skittles has given its US brand site over to social media and incorporated its [...]

I just received an invite to a Facebook entitled Loving the myla Christmas Calendar which lead me to a rather neat, if hardly ground-breaking, bit of marketing.
The MYLA Advent Calendar is a very pretty Flash site which allows users to open doors for the 12 days of Christmas. But rather than each one hiding a [...]