Archive for Consumer Technology

Check it! Location based games are getting easier and more useful

Consumer Technology, Social Media on August 3rd, 2010 3 Comments

Unless you have been hidden under a rock for the last twelve months you must have heard about Foursquare which has been the latest geo-location craze to hit social media in 2010. Basically the premise is you have to travel around checking in to locations near you securing points for travelling around. If you “check-in” [...]

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Is Facebook hurting small businesses by stopping on page competitions

Consumer Technology, Social Media on July 29th, 2010 6 Comments

In December 2009 Facebook made a few adjustments to its formal policy on competitions and promotions which you no doubt will have heard about. The net result was that promotions on Facebook can’t hold: Photo contests which require profile photo manipulation Status updates which require posting updates for entry  Only contest entries once a user [...]

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Online fashion community launches its first iPhone app

Consumer Technology, Marketing, Social Media on May 19th, 2010 No Comments

Those of you that read my blog regularly will know I have been working on a couple of exciting internet projects during the last six months in my quest to become the next Steve Jobs (Joke obviously). One of these said projects is TheFashionPixie.com which I wrote about way back in December. The idea behind [...]

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How to use social media to find dog owners? (My story from the weekend)

Consumer Technology, Social Media on May 10th, 2010 5 Comments

This weekend I really witnessed the power of Twitter and social media and it surprised me for the first time in a long time. On Saturday I was busy at home cutting the grass and doing my fatherly duties, when my mother turned up at our house with two beautiful and friendly dogs. She found [...]

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Dear Facebook – please add the useage time of our fans

Consumer Technology, Public Relations, Social Media on March 1st, 2010 No Comments

I am an administrator on quite a few Facebook fan pages. I use the platform with some of my clients depending on whether the platform fits the client’s communications strategy. There are good things and bad things about Facebook. A good thing is it is constantly improving and looking to make its experience better. A [...]

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New property portal uses a social media strategy to secure critical mass

Consumer Technology, Marketing, Social Media on September 29th, 2009 No Comments

It is no surprise to any of us that the housing market, although picking up a bit in recent months, is still suffering from the dreaded R word. Many first time buyers have been struggling to get mortgages from banks and even long term property owners are finding it costly to sell. Well things might [...]

Pioneer launches the CDJ-2000

Consumer Technology on September 22nd, 2009 No Comments

The most exciting DJ product to enter the world of DJing in the last ten years was arguably the Pioneer CDJ 1000, well now Pioneer has launched its younger brother with more bells and whistles than ever. These new turntables have a mind blowing array of features and software. I had two CDJ 1000 MK [...]

Buying Facebook friends or Twitter followers – is wrong

Consumer Technology, Social Media on September 3rd, 2009 3 Comments

Are you looking to build up your Facebook friends or overall fan base on one of your pages? If you are, you will be pleased to hear that you don’t have to work hard on building better relationships with people anymore because you can now buy friends instead. Yes you heard me correctly, according to [...]

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Google launching a new operating system

Consumer Technology on July 8th, 2009 2 Comments

So last night Google announced that it is launching a new operating system to rival Microsoft. Google started life as a simple search engine focused on the quality of search results, with minimal advertising on its home page, and it grew its user base through good old word-of-mouth. Today it is a monster brand which [...]

A quick tip to protect your social media identities

Consumer Technology, Social Media on April 22nd, 2009 No Comments

Working in the magical world of social media, we are regularly looking to create accounts for clients across various social platforms and often – it is a well known client – we find that a particular account has been already taken by a cyber squatter. To ensure a client’s identities are easier and quicker to [...]