by Ben | Mar 6, 2011 | Facebook
There’s a scary message about phone numbers doing the rounds on Facebook at the moment and, frankly, I’m puzzled by it. EVERYONE’S PHONE NUMBER IS NOW ON FACE BOOK!! Go to the top right of your screen, click Account then Edit Friends. Go to the left...
by Ben | Feb 10, 2011 | Uncategorised
In these days when the love lives of famous couples dominate the front page of the tabloids, one very famous celebrity couple is back in the news. Barbie and Ken split up in 2004 after a 43-year romance, but Ken came across Barbie’s profile when he signed up for...
by Ben | Feb 8, 2011 | Social Media examples
Thanks to Gizmodo I stumbled across an interesting article in Wired How Tech Tools Transformed New York’s Sex Trade Without dwelling on the morality of the subject matter, what grabbed my attention was how the internet and Social Media are making profound...
by Ben | Dec 6, 2010 | photo sharing
Interesting article from Mashable about online photo sharing. Â The web-based services Flickr, Picasa and Photobucket now have competition from moble apps such as Instagram, Picplz and Path. Of course, as well as these dedicated photo services, social media sites such...
by Ben | Dec 2, 2010 | India
After two days in Delhi we had the privilege of accompanying a Sikh family on a pilgramage to their holiest of places, the Golden Temple at Amritsar. The journey took in Chandigarh and Shimla on the way and was just as much a voyage of discovery as Delhi had been....
by Ben | Nov 10, 2010 | India
Well, day 2 brought a visit to Old Delhi, and yesterday’s comments now seem naive and complacent. This was culture shock time. The place is a teeming mass of people, there clearly isn’t much money but there is a lot of commerce. Stalls and shops sell...
by Ben | Nov 9, 2010 | India
The great thing about the way we can communicate now being able to share experiences easily and quickly. So over the next two and a half weeks I’m going to share as best I can my observations from my first trip to India… First impressions when you land at...
by Ben | Nov 4, 2010 | Uncategorised
One of the best things about being involved in Social Media is being able help people, and to really make a difference to business owners. As a keen member of 4Networking, I’ve been privileged to present the 4Sight slot (a 10-minute insight, not a sales pitch)...
by Ben | Oct 18, 2010 | Uncategorised
The latest release of Skype does a neat job of integrating with Facebook. Skype, the pre-eminent VOIP service, and Facebook both have over 500 million users, so there must be a significant overlap in their customer bases, so a collaboration between the two makes a...
by Ben | Oct 17, 2010 | Uncategorised
Many Facebook users will have noticed that when they search within Facebook, 3 web results from Bing are presented below the usual Facebook stuff. But this Facebook and Bing collaboration is not going to be a one-way street. What is interesting is the Facebook...
