A client recently asked me to help them understand “Multichannel Communications” – you can also insert “360 degree campaigns” or various other buzzwords of choice here. Below is my response. Much of it has been delivered before, but the message doesn’t seem to be filtering through to industry as a whole (perhaps due to social […]
Category Archives: Making the web better
Add a tweet
I’ve seen a few in browser comments systems in my time, however I’ve never really taken to using them. Until now… What makes http://www.addatweet.com/ different is that it actually fits with my existing practices and behaviours. Normally when I see a page I like or something that interests me, I want to comment on it […]
Augmented Content Update
Some time ago I wrote a post on Augmenting content, and elaborated on how it could potentialy change the way we interact with video content, and how it could be used as a means of monetisation for sites such as youtube,through Augmented content use. Firefox 3.5 video augmentation tools make this feasible and doable. I’m […]
Open Calendar Systems: Sharing time
Open calendar systems, seem to me to be a massively underexploited gap in the Web 2.0 marketplace. I have yet to find anything that is remotely good enough, and that fully exploits the opportunities that shared time presents. Sharing time based information creates numerous opportunities and an open calendar with an intuitive UI represents an […]
A Call to Collaboration Part 1.
As part of my work for http://www.LocalEyes.org, I have identified that an issue faced collectively by Social Enterprises is reaching the “Community”. Many groups already exist that “engage with the community”, ie. they get together and they do stuff. The organisers of such groups, are exactly the kind of people, we should be helping, and […]
The Ideas Diary – How YouTube can turn a profit
Photo Credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/iwaszewski/ Further to my previous post on Augmented Content, i’d like to follow with an example. The example in question, could remove some of the many issues of media rights that we presently face, if the right profits share systems can be created. Augmented Broadcasting Imagine your watching a film and you see […]
One night in ten ideas: Tag Linking
Tool that links delicious tags with your blog page, so when people add tags for your page, they add them to your page.
Improvements to texting
http://digg.com/comedy/What_Life_Would_Be_Like_Without_Text_Swearing Armstrong and Miller surmise it beautifully in the above link, but why hasn’t someone made a swear bundle download for intuitive texting. While your at it why not add science and techy intuitive bundles and intuition that suits my language, not the language that your programmers choose to make me adhere to. Let technology […]
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