Tag Archives: facebook

How to use LinkedIn to land your dream job

Posted on May 10, 2011 by

I was scanning Twitter this morning when I spotted a question from Adrian Weckler of the Sunday Business Post asking if anyone found LinkedIn useful and what for. I emailed Adrian the following story of how I used LinkedIn to … Continue reading →

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Funny FaceBook spam!

Posted on May 5, 2009 by

I received this FaceBook invite to a webinar from Chris Abraham of AbrahamHarrison and Jay Jaffe of Jaffe Associates. This invite was sent to over 2,200 people on FaceBook. Seems like kind of spammy behaviour to me! Ironically the webinar … Continue reading →

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The real Facebook!

Posted on May 5, 2008 by

If you are getting tired of Facebook, you will appreciate this (and even if you are not getting tired of Facebook, watch this and you might start to see why it has become really annoying!).

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Are you experiencing FaceBook fade?

Posted on February 27, 2008 by

FaceBook opened its APIs for third party developers last year, opened its registration to all and saw a meteoric rise in use. The developers started creating all kinds of applications for FaceBook and the FaceBook Platform was pronounced as the … Continue reading →

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Twitter vs. FaceBook

Posted on February 7, 2008 by

While everyone talks about the power of FaceBook as a cool means of getting a message out, you hear very little about the power of Twitter as a communications tool. I inadvertantly compared the two in recent months and found … Continue reading →

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Does Plaxo flood your inbox with connection requests?

Posted on December 3, 2007 by

Plaxo started life as a place to hold your contact information online. That was quite handy and they allowed synchronising from your Mac or PC so your contact data were always held safe in the cloud. More recently Plaxo added … Continue reading →

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Intern caught in fairy outfit!

Posted on November 14, 2007 by

Spotted this story yesterday on Valleywag – long story->short, guy working as an intern for a US branch of Anglo-Irish Bank, took a couple of day’s leave saying he had to head to New York home suddenly. I just wanted … Continue reading →

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Popfly mashups

Posted on November 12, 2007 by

After Steve Clayton demoed it to me last week, I decided to try playing around with Microsoft’s Popfly. Popfly is a tool for creating Mashups in Silverlight, with a drag and drop interface. It comes with a tutorial (on right) … Continue reading →

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Is Facebook's Search function useless?

Posted on November 12, 2007 by

I met the CEO of Telligent Systems, Rob Howard in Barcelona. Telligent are the company who make Community Server amongst other things. Rob and I had a great chat and decided to hook up on Facebook. It turned out to … Continue reading →

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OpenSocial signs up MySpace and SixApart too!

Posted on November 2, 2007 by

I mentioned earlier in the week that Google was about to launch OpenSocial, a Social Network API platform. Since then Mike Arrington in TechCrunch is reporting that not only is it happenning but MySpace, Bebo and SixApart are on board … Continue reading →

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