Tag Archives: Socmed

Facebook as a productivity platform?

The social media giant wants to expand beyond personal usage. Facebook At Work will be the next step: offering chat, document sharing and networking in a professional setting. It makes sense from FB's point of view: facebook is often blocked … Continue reading

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Signing away your rights to the devil FB, Google, Ello or Tsu?

New social network Tsu made people wonder what would happen if you create original content, – texts, photos, videos, whatever – and share it on Tsu. Are you handing over all your rights? Afraid of the wall of text? Scroll … Continue reading

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Why you should join Tsu, the first paying social network, even if you're not interested in the money at all

It's raining men social networks lately (Ello, Diaspora, Medium and many more) and most of them are bound to fail. Not because they don't have a compelling idea which drives them and makes them truly social, but because the network … Continue reading

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This is why G+ is bleeding

Hashtags and mentions in absurd abundance creating new circles of SEO/Marketeers dominating G+ There is nothing wrong with the profession, but please try to be less obnoxious. The mutual mentioning, the abundant sharing, over the top words like 'post of … Continue reading

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LinkedIn turning into a blogging platform or do they want to copy G+?

Got this invitation today to make 'long-form posts' which will feature a comment system underneath it and of course likes/+1's. Very similar to G+, at least the way some of us use it for posts with some actual content. Somewhere … Continue reading

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So G+ died, but the resident zombies say they ain't dead? What happened?

On my return to G+ I find zillions of posts discussing the death of G+, it's a ghost town apparently – a very old theme by the way- , but it seems rather lively to me. Reading through endless and … Continue reading

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The bigger perspective is always from outside of the box

So to find out if social media are more than incestuous circles I decided to live life offline. As a test and just for a few weeks I told myself, but once off the grid it was surprisingly difficult to … Continue reading

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First Auto-HDR, Auto-Action, Auto-Tag, Auto-Erase Experiment Fails

As the hand of the photographer is still faintly visible. With the newly announced G+ updates this will be corrected… Can we get an Auto-Hide for our future streams as we will get Auto-Everything home-videos as well… #AutoFail #NoActualGoogleProcessingWasInvolvedInTheMakingOfThisPost #Tech … Continue reading

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#tcsummit2013 #tcsummit +Ayoub Khote +John Skeats

The plebs rebel: the 99% wonder where G+ is heading #SocMed Originally shared by +Paddy Hoolahan #tcsummit2013 #tcsummit +Ayoub Khote +John Skeats This is an open letter to the Top Contributors summit. This is not a letter of anger, this … Continue reading

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Recursive Selfies: Someday Social Psychology Will Explain Why

The Selfie as a cultural phenomenon has been explained as a mix of narcissism and self-objectification, but of course the next step is photos showing the setting of a selfie. Called a mise en abyme in art otherwise known as … Continue reading

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