Monthly Archives: August 2010

Facebook Places privacy settings. How to stop your friends from checking you in

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Kieron

Today Facebook launched Facebook Places, although not live in the UK yet it will be soon. Basically Facebook are bringing checkins and location based services to the masses. Until now, this area has been pretty much dominated by FourSquare and Gowalla. Now while I love FourSquare and use it a lot, and I will undoubtedly use Facebook Places, one aspect did worry me. Namely the ability for friends to check you into places. I guess the idea could be that … Continue reading →

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Twifficiency: An unoriginal idea that spammed Twitter but got the creator mentioned in Time

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Kieron

It would seem that all you need to be classed as an entrepreneur and get loads of media attention these days is to copy an idea and spam Twitter. Great. Over the last couple of days everybody from TechCrunch to Time have been writing about Twifficiency as it “sweeps” over the Twitterverse cluttering up our Twitter feeds. In case you didn’t know it, Twifficiency is a poor man’s Twitaholic, Twitter Grader, TwitPwr and countless other Twitter tools that tell you … Continue reading →

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Think Visibilty is nearly here

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Kieron

This year’s Think Visibility conference is on the 4th September in Leeds and tickets are only £119. Think Vis is one of my most favourite conferences for lots of reasons. They don’t have the usual suspects that you see touted around at other SEO conferences. In fact it’s not an SEO conference (thank goodness) at all. The whole idea of Think Vis is that it’s about how to get your website more visible (geddit?) via not only SEO but PR, … Continue reading →

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Books you must read: Twitchhiker – how one man travelled the world by Twitter

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Kieron

I thought I’d start sharing some of the books that I’ve been reading lately as a few people I know have been asking for reading recommendations. All of the books I’ll discuss are to do with the web/entrepreunership so hopefully of interest to my blog readers. The first book is the excellent Twitchhiker from Paul Smith. For those of you who don’t know the story, Paul decided to travel the world in 2009, raising money for charity and using nothing … Continue reading →

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Brown paper bag money

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Kieron

So they’re making a movie of Ben Mezrich’s book “The Accidental Billionaires” all about the early days of Facebook and the enemies that Mark Zuckerburg allegedly made and the meteoric rise of the social networking site that we all now accept as part of our lives. I’ve read the book and if I’m honest wasn’t that impressed. A lot of the book is pure conjecture and speculation. Ben Mezrick uses quite a lot of artistic licence in piecing together what … Continue reading →

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