blending the mix

Vic Keegan of the guardian reports that for all its pomp and fuss, blogging just isn’t breaking into the mainstream as expected (or as much as facebook or myspace have for example).
I’d written about this a while ago arriving at the conclusion that this was because the growth of the blogoshpere was being powered by […]

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The BBC reports on how an ENTIRELY unheard of group, Koopa have managed to get a Top 40 hit, with no recording contract!
Recent changes to the way the UK Top 40 Music chart is compiled (now taking into account ANY music downloads) have meant that on download sales alone, Koopa have managed to enter the […]

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On the back of the Thresher voucher launched by Hugh last week, the story has now made the BBC website.
Blogging is just a fad? Don’t think so!
Hugh…rock on!
Tags: gapingvoid, stormhoek, threshers, blogging, advertising

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Someone tell me, is there any significant reason why something like Habbo characters, created by a Habbo Hotel user could not at some point in the near future be integrated into something like Second Life?

Stupid thing to say? Maybe Probably!

Prompted by Steve Rubel’s post on Habbo going all social (where users can now create their […]

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Looking for a prospect today on Google called Ajax Property Developments, I was unable to find anything of relevance - but by god, did I find plenty about Ajax developer tools and language.
I got the same rubbish from msn and yahoo which led me to think that this is now a geek-led world, and we […]

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  So, a friend of mine (no, this IS true!) joins Second Life on my recommendation, even though my laptop hasn’t got enough graphics capability to run it (!) and tells me some interesting things.

Upon joining, the first thing he does is get invited to spend money via stores that, conveniently, the two people he […]

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A word of warning to all those wiki owners who are doing for free what other copmanies charge for…you are being hunted down!
Yellowiki, is a twist on the craig’s list theme where people create their own directories and business links. Yell.com, the directory people who charge companies for doing the same things are now suing […]

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Those lovely people at paypal are so kind.
Within 2 days of me launching my new blog, PayPal sent me an email asking me to verify my personal details because they thought there had been a security breach. How nice. Shame it landed in my spam filter!
What other multinational company would take sure care of its […]

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My Sony laptop is on the verge of packing in, after years and years of (ab)use it is at death’s door.
The CD drive does not allow me to burn back-up discs anymore and it is pot luck as to whether or not it will work from one day to the next.
So, I am offering […]

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Weather reports, flights, take-away food, and price checks.
All things that we were all soooo excited about using in WAP (but didn’t) are now being touted as the major reasons for using mobile internet with t-mobile.
How about mobile blogging, video blogging, internet search, maps, google earth, podcasting…now surely THESE are all things which are going to […]

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