Entries from June 2008

From the Dept. of Social Media Typos

June 26th, 2008 by Jeremy · 5 Comments
In Stories

Podcat  [pod-kat]
- noun.
Slang. Person who creates, or provides vocal soundtracks for, podcasts that influence popular youth culture.

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The Other Side: News from the Northern Line

June 24th, 2008 by Iain MacMillan · No Comments
In Networking · Press coverage · Product launch · Social media · Stories

Our latest article for Contagious magazine has seen us dip our KUDOS toes into the world of publishing.
The Other Side, a new, free monthly magazine aimed at London’s Northern Line underground commuters, has built an accompanying online community on social network, Webjam. Our Contagious article uses the KUDOS planning framework to see how the activity [...]

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The Associated Press and Bloggers: A DUK-and-Cover Strategy?

June 18th, 2008 by Jeremy · 3 Comments
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Oh, the agony of having vast amounts of content that every blogger on Earth wants to link to, quote, reference and purloin. The Associated Press (AP) is in a bit of a bind because, well, because it has a little too much social capital for its own liking.
The news service whose daily [...]

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Dept. of Neologisms: Googahoo!

June 13th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 5 Comments
In Media · Online business

For the latest entry into the Department of Neologisms, I have decided to buck the trend - nay, the universal lockstep - of referring to the conjugation of Google and Yahoo! as ‘Yahoogle’. From now on, this blog (well, possibly only me) will speak only of Googahoo! There are many reasons behind this:

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Whrrl: Putting Spontaneity in Travel Planning?

June 12th, 2008 by Maggie · 3 Comments
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Like Ben, I’ve been looking into some of the new travel planning and travel 2.0 sites cropping up, and I came across a cool new app called Whrrl, which has just received $15 million in funding which will go to expanding the service and bringing it abroad (it’s only available in certain US cities for [...]

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