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Apple Winning the Mashable Wars

November 18th, 2009 Jobe Roberts 1 comment
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Hopefully by the time you read this, you will be able to download your iTunes play-list as an XML file then embed an interactive Flash animation that displays your songs on your Facebook page or website.  Um, you probably won't get this mashable app from Apple, but instead from some clever basement developer doing it ...

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Social Media Fire Retardant

May 20th, 2009 Jobe Roberts No comments
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Via the Onion.  You'll note that this video is no longer posted on their site. On a more serious note, the STOunion has a wonderful new location in Wakefield Quebec!  With some luck we'll be shooting video and still portraits.  More details soon..

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iGoogle iMproves iTs Ui

June 28th, 2008 Jobe Roberts 1 comment

Finally those difficult to use and awkward little buttons on iGoogle are about to be nixed. The problem with the UI is that the 'remove this' button marked with an 'x' is right next to the 'expand this' button marked with a '+'. If you're like me you're forever deleting the application you're ...

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Social Media Goes Condo

January 16th, 2008 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
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The premise is interesting... ResidentsIQ people moving into a close-knit environments may not have the skills to get to know each other... A new condo... you don't know your neighbours... It's not easy making connections. Although it's a good concept, it still leaves me skeptical... Residents IQ? ...

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Buzz Bots that Surf the Social Media Web

November 18th, 2007 Jobe Roberts No comments
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One of my favourite social network sites seems to have become infested with buzz bots. Buzz bots are software bots that pretend to be human, but are actually just out to spread their viral advertising. Quite often these bots feed back any real world interaction to a real human counterpart usually referred to ...

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Social Media Metrics

November 5th, 2007 Jobe Roberts 4 comments
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Social media metrics is a growing industry that crawls through the darkest recesses of the internet in search of the thoughts and opinions of your customers. Basically, keywords such as product names or a company name is the trigger to record a consumer insight. In other words, what someone has to say about ...

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Facebook User eXperience Addictive

November 2nd, 2007 Jobe Roberts No comments
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6 million users and growing by 300,000 new users a day according to iLike team blog. Facebook has the potential to become more than just a social network. It's an online application environment that is changing and evolving and becoming more intelligent by the minute. I think we're only touching on its ability to ...

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Web apps that network socially

June 30th, 2007 Jobe Roberts No comments
Flixter

Flixster.com is a movie database / social networking mashup. I wouldn't be surprised to see a site like this get swallowed by Amazon or the like. Flixster is a wonderful environment with a very targeted purpose - sharing your opinion about movies with your social network. Can you remember when we had to choose between buying ...

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Your Spins: Social ReMix Media

April 30th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
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Being a former DJ, I love the idea of this site: YourSpins.com lets you remix the tracks of existing music and post your "noob" creation on yourspins page, or on your own web page or blog - you can even download it as your ringtone. How does it work? A bunch of artists have allowed their ...

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