you guys have seen this on the right hand side of my blog, right? It’s been there for months.Well now it’s available in Facebook- MyPhone. What is MyPhone? With MyPhone, Facebook friends can call your phone or leave you a voice message from their phone while you keep your phone number private. Is it free? Yes! It is totally free to add MyPhone to your profile. Can I screen/block unwanted calls? Yes! MyPhone keeps your real phone number private and allows you to control who can call your phone from Facebook. Does it work with my mobile phone? Yes! It Continue Reading…
Oct 202007
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:59 pm Tagged with: cellular telephone, Facebook, jaxtr Inc., mobile, MyPhone, Online Communities, online friends, social networks, telecommunications
Oct 202007
The Customer is on Your Side: Got more examples of hyper consumers?? Tell me and I’ll post them, with a link/hat tip back to your site. (see here for the Customer is NOT on Your Side) Some products and services have always been built around brand evangelists who love your products and services and donate time and energy and skill to building your brand with no thought of reward. And no, I’m not talking about your marketing consultant. Think entertainment. Think sports – where would *insert name of sports team* be without consumers buying tickets, wearing the sports gear, scarves Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:00 pm Tagged with: energy, Harley Davidson, marketing consultant, Nike, Online Communities, social networks
Oct 202007
The Customer is NOT on Your Side: Got more examples of anti-branding by consumers?? Tell me and I’ll post them, with a link/hat tip back to your site. (see here for the Customer is on Your Side) Anyone got any examples of anti-marketing, anti-advertising sites? This is where the consumer has got so pissed with a company they have set up an “anti-site” -questioning, highlighting, destroying a brand online. I’m going to keep the list here and link to it from the right hand side of this blog, so if you find any, give me a hoy ok?1. Zero Coke Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 8:17 pm Tagged with: anti advertising, anti marketing, anti-site, Coca Cola, controversial fake front group, dugg site, Facebook, Google, Online Communities, online spamming, Social Media Australia, social networks, Zero Coke Movement
Oct 202007
Who’s handling the launch of the current.tv in Australia, anyone know? I’ve got some ideas – and I don’t want the standard VCAD $1000 bucks for ‘em either. Anyone know the agencies that normally work with Foxtel? I spoke with Kim Williams and he said Foxtel was in discussions with current.tv. That was back in March just as current.tv doubled their subscriber base from 28 million in the US by adding in 25 million viewers from the U.K. For those of you who’ve never heard of ‘em, current.tv is a user generated channel with user generated ads. Oh shi….vers. I Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:45 pm Tagged with: Al Gore, Chairman, ebay, England, instant messaging, Kim Williams, media distributor, Online Communities, peer to peer, Social Media Australia, social networks, UK, United Kingdom, United States, USD, user generated content, youtube
Oct 202007
Hat Tip Nicholas Rayner: Look at all the other laptops! I wonder if there is the equivalent of cyber bullying amongst laptops, cos if so that ACER lover had better protect their laptop for dear life. It’s well worth viewing the full size to understand the brand impact of this foto. Technorati Tags: social networks, Humour, acer, apple macintosh, laptop
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:03 pm Tagged with: social networks
Summary: Facebook profiles accessible externally, jobs at Facebook including incredible perks.A week ago in my post Facebook Doesn’t Suck I mentioned that profile information is accessible to any developer who wants to create an application for that purpose, but that no dev had, probably because they want to keep the member in facebook. Now, Linuxworld Australia reports: WEB 2.0 – Facebook wants to make members’ data portable Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service Facebook wants to make the data its members enter into the social network’s profiles portable, so that they can move that data to other online services if Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:46 pm Tagged with: CEO, Facebook, John Battelle, Mark Zuckerberg, moderator and conference chair, Online Communities, SAN FRANCISCO, Social Media Australia, social network, social networks, web 2.0
Flickr: TimNorton This is a background discussion to what I think will be the “killer” viral social networking competition of this Australian election. LOLPOL. Flickr group here. And some meme stuff in general. When I first came across PostSecret.com in 2005, I thought it was one of the most powerful user generated content sites around. Sorry, consumer generated media. Whatever. PostSecret came about because Frank Warren asked people to physically post him postcards of their confessions -usually one liners – and he put them up on a blog. PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:11 am Tagged with: Online Communities, Social Media Australia, social networks, user generated content
*cries* why is my iPod Touch doing this? It’s sort of pixellated and colored red/blue when it should be black. So this video is Rihanna singing Umbrella – a black and white video. But you can see – her dark hair is now blue and red. Anything in black seems to be affected. Plus there is a slippage – the video shifts 1/2 an inch to the right and the thing that should be the most-right on the screen is now the most left. Very disconcerting wraparound effect. Anyone know what’s causing it – btw that is a downloaded iTunes Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 4:17 am Tagged with: iPod, Rihanna, youtube
Oct 152007
*laughs* I wonder who made this?Jose Cuervo should sponsor it I guess. I could pretend this blog post is about the consumer mucking around with your brand, or about viral videos going through online communities. But I simply posted it up here because it’s funny. EDIT: Oh ok, and this one:Hat tip: Fang and Amanda. Technorati Tags: social networks, Humour, youtube, tequila, jose cuervo, viral, video
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 7:31 pm Tagged with: Jose Cuervo, Online Communities, social networks
Three or so months ago I said that Facebook made a mistake by charging $1 per pixel gift. (A pixel gift is where you send someone “flowers” or a “birthday cake” – an image that sits on their Facebook page.) By not thinking it through, Facebook not only left the door open for Free Gifts (a third party app with crappy free graphics) but also missed out on valuable sponsored gift/advertising. My argument was: Have Lindt offer free boxes of pixel chocolates and allow people to send them as a “welcome to Facebook present”. How about an iPod branded with Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:40 pm Tagged with: internet userbase, mobile, Online Communities, social networks
I love finding new words (adhocracy has been around since the 1970′s but it’s new to me). Most sites about adhocracy refer to it as a company structure or some sort of “job” but it works for me equally well as a description of commons-based peer production. From wikipedia: When done well, Adhocracy can be very good at problem solving and innovations and thrives in a changing environment. It requires sophisticated and often automated technical systems to develop and thrive. Characteristics of an adhocracy: highly organic structure little formalization of behavior job specialization based on formal training (I disagree. LP) Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:46 pm Tagged with: Online Communities, social networks
Facebook is/not a walled garden – Fang and me hosted group on Facebook. Here we go again: Why Facebook sucks Saturday, October 13, 2007 by Dave Winer. Another topic Scoble and I talked about today was Facebook. I said I don’t like Facebook, never have, and I finally figured out why. It’s another one of those user generated content things, only this time I’m building up an address book that I can look at, but can only do things with it that Facebook lets me do. Why exactly do I need Facebook to get inbetween me and my address book? Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:37 pm Tagged with: Dave Winer, Facebook, Google, iphone, Online Communities, privacy, Social Media Australia, social networks, user generated content, walled garden, Yahoo!
Oct 142007
Those poor darlings at ADMA had to sit and listen to me waffle on about how Web 2.0 social media, social news, social bookmarking and social search were going to change their world. As they hadn’t yet learnt about Search Engine Optimisation (also, apparently, called Search Engine Marketing), and as social search is not yet an exact science, it was a fun exploration. Hitwise is on board: Traffic from social networking websites influences Singaporean appliance and electronics shopping online Posted: 09 Oct 2007 06:26 PM CDT According to Hitwise Singapore, for the week ending October 9, 2007, while search engines Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:02 pm Tagged with: electronics shopping, Online Communities, Search, search engines, social media, social networking, social networking websites, social networks, social search, web 2.0
I can never remember when to whack an ‘m’ on the end – I have no end of trouble with my object pronouns versus my subject pronouns. Do you? anyway who is this?: SALES – Account Manager ONLINE MEDIA FASTEST GROWING ONLINE MEDIA WORLD’S LEADING SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITE What a great place to take your career! The Company. Has the definitive leader in social networking websites offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally. The web site is currently the world’s sixth most popular English-language website and the sixth most popular in Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:43 pm Tagged with: Facebook, Online Communities, Social Media Australia, social networks
Oct 102007
A very sad story in The Daily Telegraph today (an article by Ian McPhedran), and I am concerned about how we handle social network ethics when it comes to a loss in the community and what happens to the content created by that member. Facebook via Daily Telegraph: Loved life… David Pearce with his wife Nicole. DAVID Pearce’s Facebook site tells the moving story of a devoted husband and a loving dad – who now won’t be coming home to his family. The 41-year-old soldier’s piercing blue eyes glow with love for Nicole, his wife of 18 years, and their Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:14 am Tagged with: Facebook, Nicole Pearce, Social Media Australia, social networks, Solomon Islands, Stephanie
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