As Facebook passes the 300 million user mark, it’s becoming an increasingly important channel for brands looking to communicate and connect with people.
Facebook Fan Pages are a great way for companies to manage this communications and the smart ones are doing really interesting experiments here. Below, I’ve looked at 11 brands which are playing around, with different levels of [...]
Central to the offering of music community last.fm is the idea of scrobbling. Every track is added to an ongoing listening chart, documenting each track and band the user has played.
Some users have played hundreds of thousands of songs and all of it is neatly displayed on their profiles in the form of bar graphs. [...]
Warning: this post contains reminiscing, nostalgia and faded memories.
When I began my career of sitting in a chair looking at a computer, in a horrible block in downtown Auckland, we would often have music playing in the office. But this was 1995. It wasn’t streamed, ripped or downloaded or even shared across a network. It [...]
Tough times for the staff of the trashy afternoon tabloid thelondonpaper. The Murdoch owned freebie is closing after posting a £12 million loss to June 2009. Sixty staff are now out of work, not to mention the hundreds of part-timers they have outside stations, foisting the paper on you.
In an unfortuante sense of timing, the [...]
By Dom Waghorn, Head of User Engagement at Syzygy UK. Just another digital content geek waiting patiently for the revolution. Or the Next Big Thing.
