Archive for the ‘social media’ Category
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
doop's Brian Greene, the most listened to DJ on blip.fm, is doing a 24 hour Blipathon in aid of the Children of Gaza on February 14th.
See http://blipathon.com/
Brian needs blippers so let him know if you want to join in: blipathon@briangreene.com
Posted in news, social media | No Comments »
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
doop designed the website interface design for muzu.tv, an Irish music social network.
Posted in client, design, social media, Work | No Comments »
Friday, August 29th, 2008
blipping marvelous, it launched in May '08 and exploded this August. blip.fm from Fuzz Artists, Inc is one vision of social radio. Radio from the bottom up not top down. When things are turned on their head the world can seem upside down, a revolution is taking place.
Radio listeners are ...
Posted in digital media, social media | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
We have been looking at twitter for 12 months now and while we have been busy contributing to the conversations and applications these guys at Read Write Web have been watching us. They have analyzed what people are talking about on Twitter. Fascinating stuff.
While technology, politics, and geekery (sci-fi ...
Posted in blogging, social media | Comments Off
Monday, February 4th, 2008
As it is the eve of Super Tuesday I thought it might be interesting to have a look at how the US presidential campaign is using Web 2.0. An interesting article on Detroit Free Press cites an example of how one of Mike Huckabee's supporters used the national online ...
Posted in social media | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Amnesty International yesterday launched a major new advertising campaign which urges social networking users to unite against terrorism and human rights abuses in the ‘war on terror’.
The Unsubscribe campaign aims to activate public opinion online, with much of the campaign focusing on social networking. It has also launched an ...
Posted in news, social media | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
New Media Age in the UK have reported today that Vodafone has launched a mobile operation in Second Life. Vodafone Inside Out, which launched in beta, will enable users to call other Second Life avatars and connect the call to mobile phones in the real world. ...
Posted in news, social media | No Comments »
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Time Warner's HBO have acquired the rights to a new documentary shot entirely within Second Life - and paid real world money!. The documentary"Molotov's Dispatches in Search of the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey," chronicles an avatar, Molotov Alva, as he travels through the virtual world learning of the ...
Posted in news, social media | No Comments »
Friday, August 24th, 2007
twitter has added a search feature. It tells me that 369 profiles have results for the search term Ireland. some may say that equals 369 irish twitters but I would say its a number reference point we now have; before we had nothing and now this is something. i over ...
Posted in blogging, news, social media | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Brands are fast recognising the benefits of advertising on the web and within social media. If Generation X are spending more time online than offline then clever brands know thats where to put the money. The problem at the moment is that although social networks are happy ...
Posted in Advertising, industry, social media | No Comments »
Monday, July 30th, 2007
brian@doop has developed a script which allows news services to feed data to multiple Twitter accounts. Its a quick and structured way to input news fast and it feeds more than one twitter accounts with one input (think business news / world news / breaking news) !!!! its intent is ...
Posted in blogging, news, social media | No Comments »
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Social network sites are going niche with new sporting social network sites launched. MyColts.net, a social networking Web site, like MySpace, geared toward Colts fans launched last month and has grown to include about 5,200 users. Other professional sports franchises, like the Denver Broncos of the NFL and the Portland ...
Posted in news, social media | No Comments »
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Google owned YouTube have been busy developing technology to clamp down on illegally uploaded copyright material. Both Microsoft and MySpace already have filtering techniques in place to combat copyright violation.
Read article on Silicon Republic.
Posted in industry, news, social media | No Comments »
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Dude, Where's my Audience? Interesting article.
This article talks about Generation X and how they consume new media and the problems with its measurement. The article goes onto say:
"Roy Morgan research director William Burlace admits that without massive audiences, there is little commercial incentive to monitor the new-tech waves ...
Posted in Advertising, news, podcasting, research, social media | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Wondering what its all about? This article from MSNBC entitled "Public Relations 2.0" takes a look at how you can build awareness through social media.
"In the past, social media sites--especially social networking sites such as MySpace--have been seen as a vehicle mainly for young people. Now, however, people of ...
Posted in news, social media | No Comments »
Friday, July 6th, 2007
Brian Greene and Talking Voices put on Cheeze’s virtual version of Chinwag's summer party in Second Life. The virtual event mirrored the real event and featured live DJ sets and special new media furniture. Its was very successful and sees Talking Voices providing technical experise, high bandwidth ...
Posted in client, news, social media | No Comments »