Could Social Media help fix ‘Broken Britain’?
There is a crisis going on in the UK with youth unemployment. Depending on which reports you read, there is between 750,000 and nearly 1m 16-25yr olds unemployed fueling fears of a lost generation of...
View ArticleIntroducing Spearfish Labs
As of this month, you will find me blogging more and more over at my new company’s site Spearfish Labs and more specifically at our blog. I will try my best to keep this site active as well and will...
View ArticleHow to Donate to Haiti
OK – Instead of writing a post myself on how to donate to the Haiti earthquake appeal, I am going to list some of the ones which are already around the blogosphere. I would suggest, quickly having a...
View ArticleThe age of privacy is over? God, I hope not.
Not an original post by any stretch, but I wanted to give me two pence worth to the Facebook-Privacy debate. I read the post by Marshall Kirkpatrick for ReadWriteWeb , the interview with Michael...
View ArticleWhy social media should be on Football Clubs’ radar
My name is Ed, and I support Southampton FC. It’s been a while since I said that in public! Anyone who follows football (soccer for the US dudes) may have noticed The Saints slipping further and...
View ArticleEurostar and the Blame Game
So, Friday night was a bad bad night for anyone using the channel tunnel. Hours spent trapped under sea would in most cases be fatal, but in this case it resulted in a plethora of seriously vexed...
View ArticleIs the social media ‘deadpool’ going to get crowded in 2010?
My post last week on Google’s announcement of real time search focused on what impact it may have on the incumbent social media monitoring vendors. Bing (with greater FB reach) and Yahoo have also...
View ArticleGoogle real time search – The start of a game changer?
I think this is a big one! Google announced yesterday that they will launch real-time search within days. They will integrate the full Twitter firehose feed, as first mentioned by Mashable back in...
View ArticleDo the tools mask what social media really is?
I have a ridiculous amount of godparents. My mother says she didn’t want any of her friends to be left out so my brother and I have around eight each! This, of course, has many benefits. In my early...
View ArticleMix your wine with social media
I spotted an article in the FT a couple of days ago about the success Majestic Wine have been having in the UK. You can read the article here and here. This is coming at a time when First Quench,...
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