Entries from September 2009

Let me Google that for you, Google.

September 30th, 2009 by Dan O'Connor · 1 Comment
In Stories

And so, dear readers, to the first in an occasional series which we might call ‘Google’s Cultural Tin Ear’.
It will have escaped the notice of none that Google have recently gifted the world with their latest innovation, which goes by the surfy-beachy-hip-and- greenish monicker of ‘Wave’. It is, so we are told by a reliably [...]

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Rollyo: searching your own personalised web

September 24th, 2009 by Matt Rebeiro · No Comments
In Tool development · search

You probably use Google. In fact, scrub that : you definitley use Google. Ok, maybe one of you uses Yahoo but come one, seriously, who wants to be friends with that guy? The reason is that Google is great. But sometimes you don’t want to search the whole internet (or at least the bit that [...]

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If you’re a celebrity chef, look away now

September 24th, 2009 by Iain MacMillan · No Comments
In Stories

Take a look at this, if you haven’t seen it already.

How has no one thought of doing this before? (I imagine this is the point where I get told that other people have…)
It’s so simple: crowd-sourced receipes from home cooks. This has been put together by an off-shoot of Harper Collins, called HarperStudio, who are [...]

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What makes for good social media research?

September 21st, 2009 by Iain MacMillan · No Comments
In Buzz & sentiment analysis · Stories

I’ve often struggled to succinctly explain why we approach conducting social media research in the way that we do. We use tools to help us filter, rank and identify influencers, but believe these will only get you so far. We also believe in the need for some good old-fashioned manual labour, particularly to enable us [...]

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The creative process within social media

September 19th, 2009 by Iain MacMillan · No Comments
In Creative ideas · Events · Stories

We’re constantly thinking about the best way to foster creativity regarding the use of social technologies (particularly by our clients and their customers), and how to link this creative process seemlessly to the strategic part of our process. It sounds so simple…
Below I’ve reproduced a slide from Tim Berners-Lee’s presentation on the Semantic Web and [...]

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