January 2009
38 posts
When IBM Beats Facebook And Twitter: Discover... →
When twitter recently added a “Suggested Friends” feature, I was more than a little disappointed. Unlike Facebook’s “People You May Know” feature, no explanation is provided for why these…
Watchfilthydukes:
Heres our new video for This Rhythm - released on the 9th March, stay tuned for news on formats and remixes.
Audiolife: Create Your Own Virtual Music &... →
Audiolife is a new service that just launched in public beta, offering musicians a one stop shop for creation and distribution of music, merchandise and other music-related goods.
The…
HOW TO: Survive a Social Media Revolt →
Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. You can follow him on Twitter
It often stuns me to see how poor social…
YouTube’s New Users: Denzel, Crowe, and Bay? →
YouTube built its business around user-generated content, but more recently, has been looking to add more professionally produced video from the likes of CBS so it can offer more attractive…
When IBM Beats Facebook And Twitter: Discover... →
When twitter recently added a “Suggested Friends” feature, I was more than a little disappointed. Unlike Facebook’s “People You May Know” feature, no explanation is provided for why these…
Find Your Brand’s Influential Voices With BuzzGain →
With the prevalence of social media properties and the propensity for people to use the Web to express their thoughts on a company, it’s obvious why professional buzz tracking is a hot…
iDVD hung out to dry as Apple pushes movies online... →
Prince McLean / AppleInsider: iDVD hung out to dry as Apple pushes movies online — One of the original pillars of Apple’s iLife suite, iDVD, has increasingly been given…
Too Much Noise On Twitter? Filttr Will Tell You... →
Twitter is a great resource for information, useful links, breaking news and status messages from your friends or companies you’re interested in. But if you’re following a lot of streams, it’s…
Record labels pressure Spotify to restrict service →
Music streaming service Spotify is getting lots of plaudits lately for its ease of use and vast catalogue but that’s about to change. In a blog post yesterday the startup outlined how it will be…
New in Labs: Offline Gmail (Andy Palay/Gmail Blog) →
Andy Palay / Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Offline Gmail — Web-based email is great because you can check it from any computer, but there’s one little catch: it’s inherently limited by…
Is Google’s “GDrive” Finally On the Way? →
Does the little blue icon pictured here represent the next huge Google product - the long-rumored “GDrive”? Maybe. Google Operating System has uncovered some more clues that lead them to…
Twitter is 2009's Facebook, With Less Upside... →
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Twitter is 2009’s Facebook, With Less Upside — Twitter is making the same mistakes Facebook did, which are: — raising money instead of…
Music pirates will not be disconnected from the... →
Patrick Foster / Times of London: Music pirates will not be disconnected from the internet — Internet service providers will not be forced to disconnect users who repeatedly flout…
Bumpy Start for BlackBerry Storm (Wall Street... →
Wall Street Journal: Bumpy Start for BlackBerry Storm — Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion Ltd. have high hopes for the BlackBerry Storm, which they spent nearly two years…
Another iPhone App Sold: MindMaker Goes To... →
German mind mapping application builder MeisterLabs, the startup behind brainstorm & planning tool MindMeister, has acquired MindMaker, to our knowledge the third iPhone application to get…
YouTube Now Lets You Erase Those Dumb Comments You... →
YouTube has always been infamous for the amount of useless comments that videos hosted on the site tend to generate (which is not unusual when it comes to user-generated services that appeal…
How Obama Will Use Web Technology →
Editor’s Note: The following guest post was written by Kevin Merritt, the CEO and founder of blist, a Web-based list manager and spreadsheet that was used on Change.gov, the Obama…
YouTube Users Lash Out At Warner Music (And... →
Two things are clear in the YouTube/Warner Music scuffle. First, neither side is 100% right. And second, users are very, very angry that their videos are being pulled down or muted when they…
FriendFeed Hits Nearly One Million Visitors; Grew... →
While 2008 was Twitter’s hockey-stick year, Twitter’s little brother FriendFeed is also beginning to show hockey-stick tendencies in its growth. According to comScore, FriendFeed attracted…
Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter... →
This guest post is written by Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg and the cofounder of Revision3 and Pownce. Kevin, who has over 88,000 followers on Twitter (making him the second most…
Obama To Launch Recovery.gov →
Obama continues his web outreach today, announcing in his YouTube address that he will soon launch Recovery.gov, a site for tracking “how and where we spend taxpayer dollars”. Is this a…
Band Website Displays Copyright Claim from its Own... →
The above screenshot, taken earlier today, shows a video posted to Death Cab for Cutie’s Official Website. The message is a copyright claim from the band’s own label, Warner Music Group….
30+ Apps for Doing Business on Facebook →
Josh Peters is a freelance social media consultant from Salt Lake City, Utah. He authors a blog at Shuaism.com.
Think LinkedIn is the only place for business? Facebook is growing…
Evernote Welcomes Google Notebook Rejects With... →
Can we get an amen? Google Notebook worked: it was simple, effective, web-friendly, and perfectly suited to a Getting Things Done system. So when Google announced that it was going to drop…
Facebook Now Nearly Twice The Size Of MySpace... →
In November 2008 Facebook drew 200 million unique worldwide visitors; more than 1 in 5 people who accessed the Internet that month visited the site. When sites are that big growth generally…
20 Great Widgets to Enhance Your Tumblr Blog →
While Tumblr tends to keep things minimal, sometimes you’re just dying to post a widget on your site that relates to what you discuss, or maybe you just want to share something with your…
UK Twitter use explodes ten-fold, poised to go... →
Twitter use is exploding in the UK and, with celebrities there starting to hat-tip the microblogging service, many are predicting it is poised to tip over into mainstream use, much as Facebook…
Apple pushed 4.4 million iPhones in Q1 of 2009 →
We’re just minutes into Apple’s quarterly earnings call, and the iPhones sales numbers for the first fiscal quarter of 2009 (which ran from Oct. 1, 2008 to Dec. 31st, 2008) are already in….
WIN TICKETS TO SKINS PARTY AND LIVE VIDEO WEBCAST
filthydukes:
Hopefully you’ll have seen our last message that we’re playing at The Skins/NME Radio Party, well E4 are currently giving away free tickets to the party.
The party’s taking place Tuesday 20th January at the Arches in London Bridge and the line-up includes -
Young Fathers Dead Kids You Love Her Coz She’s Dead Unicorn Kid Club Propaganda DJs
along with ourselves of course…
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Warner Music adding social networking to websites... →
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clunking along behind technology like old beasts past their prime..
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Free Music Streaming and Playlist Creation With... →
There’s a new kid on the online music block, and though still in private beta, it offers users a fast and free way to create and listen to online playlists. Created by two college students,…
Social Networking Still the #1 Growth Area in... →
Some optimistic news today in a study dug up by eMarketer: lots of small businesses plan to increase their spending on social network marketing in 2009. In fact, 25% of the small businesses…
TweetSuite: Complete Twitter Integration With... →
Dan Zarrella, who introduced us to Tweetbacks last week, has released a new WordPress plugin that takes the concept to the next level. Dubbed TweetSuite, the plugin builds on TweetBacks…
Mobile Payments Getting Traction On Social... →
Users are increasingly choosing dead simple SMS mobile payments for micro-transactions on social network applications and gaming sites (it fills the void while they wait for more direct options…
Social Networking: Will Facebook Overtake MySpace... →
Year end Comscore numbers for the U.S. audience are out. The first thing we checked? How the major social networks are doing.
Facebook, which became the largest worldwide social network in…
WatchfrYars new video for ‘Visitors’ featuring backing vocals from Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode. The track is available for free download from bandstocks now and comes from the forthcoming album ‘Dark Young Hearts’ due for release March 2009.
Tumblr: What’s the Best Tumblelog? →
Could it be Mashable on Tumblr? Alas, no.
Tumblr’s wonderfully simple blogging platform has given birth to untold distractions and oddities, from Upside Down Dogs to Brokers with…