In light of the World Cup, we thought this video (courtesy of Amy!) just about sums up the shameless performances of some of these “world class” footballers. Bear in mind when watching this the huge amounts of money these guys make..
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Communicate by Community – embracing new ways of being connected!!
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
A selection of social media communities and other fascinating Web 2.0 examples – people seem more and more inclined to let the world know what they are up to!
(with thanks to Betti Moser for her help on this post!)
Foursquare
foursquare.com
You can make lists of your favourite things to do and share them with friends. Foursquare will keep track of the things you’ve done, help you create To-Do lists and even suggest new experiences to seek out…. As you check in around the city, you’ll start finding tips that other users have left behind. After checking-in at a restaurant, you may unlock a tip suggesting the best thing on the menu. Checking-in at a bar will often offer advice on what your next stop should be. Every tip you create is discoverable by other users just by checking-in.
A bit like a mixture of Twitter updates, GPS search to locate people you know and ‘Dungeons & Dragons’.
Plancast
plancast.com
A service for sharing your upcoming plans with friends – a social calendar of sorts. Just submit the things you’re thinking about doing in the future, and your friends will be able to hear about them – and maybe join you, too!
TechCrunch calls it “a ‘Foursquare for the future’. The main idea is that while many people use Foursquare and similar location-based services like Gowalla and Loopt to share where they are, Plancast is about sharing where they will be.”
It looks very similar to a Twitter timeline, but the focus is on what you’re planning today, tomorrow, next week, next month etc. This is how it works in action: plancast.com/mark
Blippy
blippy.com
“Blippy allows you to automatically share your credit card transactions as you make them. This includes the place you made the purchase, the amount, and in some cases, the item. This is all placed in a social stream where other Blippy users can comment on and ‘like’ the various items.”
This is still very new. It looks similar to a Twitter stream, but the updates are automatic via a link from your credit card to Blippy. (Hmmmm…)
Last fm
www.last.fm
“a music service powered entirely by its community of listeners.”
Completely interactive music-based community. Plugs into all other social media platforms. Listeners automatically stream the tracks they’re listening to onto Last.fm, thereby creating their online profile.
Spotify
www.spotify.com/en
“peer-to-peer music streaming service that allows instant listening to specific tracks or albums, with virtually no buffering delay.”
A monthly subscription gives access to millions of songs to download. Spotify also has profiles on Twitter and Facebook.
Listverse
listverse.com
“a website dedicated to lists of trivia from a variety of categories – the most popular of which are lists of misconceptions and human oddities.” Full of curious stories, all presented as a “Top 10 most…” list.
Hunch
hunch.com
This is a pretty cool site. It uses artificial intelligence concepts to help people with everyday (and not so everyday) decisions! Try it out and let us know what you find!
Petrol Prices.com
www.petrolprices.com
“Find the lowest UK petrol price in your area! 9,537 petrol stations and 8,000 daily updates.”
Just enter your post code and find the cheapest petrol station near you. Compares prices in real time. Also available as iPhone app.
3 useful Web 2.0/Social Media resource blogs to keep you on the ball
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
We wanted to highlight a selection of blogs and websites that keep you up to date on all the latest news in social media, web technology, plug-ins, gadgets and tools. (Thanks to Betti Moser on her help on this article)
Mashable
mashable.com
We love this site – it’s the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news as well as handy how to guides. Also a must follow on twitter (@mashable)
Techcrunch
www.techcrunch.com
One of the leading blogs which profiles and reviews the latest internet products, companies, software and gadgets. This site also gives you constant blog updates on the latest web applications and social media plug-ins – if you are so inclined! It’s worth checking out!
Social Media Today
www.socialmediatoday.com
This is “a moderated business community for marketers, bloggers, PR, and media professionals” Great site for news updates, views and blogs on everything to do with social media and marketing (and it also has a version in French!).
Gabby’s blog post – Social Media Gurus, Ninjas, Jedi’s or Consultants – a “reblog”
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
I have to post this as I want to draw atttention to the blog article written by my cousin Gabriella Sholk – it is hilariously funny but you have to make sure you read it in ALL seriousness anyway as it’s great advice!
Only the English Could Have Invented This Language
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
This was sent by email so we thought we would share! (author unknown)
We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Then shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!
Let’s face it – English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren’t invented in England ..
We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,
and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing,
grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham?
Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
If you have a bunch of odds and ends
and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
in which your house can burn up as it burns
down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out,
and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother’s not Mop?
The BNI Song – from Richard Swan of Cornucopia
Monday, April 27th, 2009
For those of you who know about BNI – this is great! It’s a song performed by a member of BNI here in the UK. His name is Richard Swan and he is from a wedding, party and function band called Cornucopia – and a member of Tower Hill BNI who meet in the Gherkin Building in London.
Luckily none of you have to go back in time to attend – it’s on You Tube – and here on our Blog!
Have a listen to the whole thing and let me know what you think!!
Why we love Favy
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
UPDATE on FAVY – now Cognitive Match: Alex Kelleher has now rolled Favy into his B2B service Cognitive Match (www.cognitivematch.com) – using the same technology of matching individuals with content in real time.
You probably haven’t heard about Favy yet – but that’s because it’s not been OFFICIALLY launched yet. We are able to have Favy on our browsers because we have connections – we know the man behind Favy – Alex Kelleher. Great guy!
Simply described in my own words – Favy is an add-on toolbar which attaches to your browser and allows you to bookmark favourite sites with tagging technology.
There is a whole “smart” element to it where it can track your taste in bookmarks, but I haven’t really tested this bit yet.
It’s really handy and easy to use.
What I love about my Favy toolbar
I love that I can tag a website with different keywords and it comes up in different folders
I love that I have a whole new fresh modern set of favourites which is a lot easier than going through my old list and checking every link
I love that there are 5 search engines – Google, Wikipedia, You Tube, Dictionary.com and Favy search – all handily included.
If you want to learn more about Favy, visit http://favy.com/home and request a free invitation!
Vimeo.com
Monday, September 1st, 2008
Just found this great website for sharing video files – one of the videos is below – enjoy!
Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo.
