I have…
Well, that’s the first choice anyway….
Fancy choosing your Song of the Decade?
October 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
One of the most popular Twitter clients adds new features
October 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
One of the most popular Twitter clients, Tweetdeck, has added new features in the latest release, version 0.31. It’s pushing forward as one of only two Twitter clients with a share of over 10%, as measured by Twitstats.
Included in the latest release is a new notification system which can be applied to certain groups. Plus it also has inline reply, retweets and direct messages inside the notification menu.
A major feature you might not notice is that Tweetdeck has now been optimised to consume less memory, which is good for everyone – plus there’s also the time-saving option of keyboard shortcuts, and a Heads-Up Display.
And depending on how popular you are, you might find the feature to view your newest 100 followers comes in useful as you can directly follow, block or add to a group.
Check oout the video below for the official walk-through:
Find the best radio stations – online
October 19, 2009 By 1 Comment
Finding the best radio station is obviously a subjective experience. Are you looking for a particular band or genre? Do you want somewhere with variety? And how on earth do you find the station that’s right for you as an individual without going through every stop on the dial and noting down what they play for a whole day or more?
CompareMyRadio.com is the newest project to launch from One Golden Square Labs (Disclosure: One Golden Square Labs is from the team behind Absolute Radio, where I’m Digital Marketing Manager)
And it’s an incredibly simple and effective way to find and compare radio stations (I can say that honestly as it wasn’t my idea, sadly). All you need to do is enter the name of your favourite artist, track or station, and you’ll be presented with which stations play the most of your favourite music, or which music your station plays the most.
It also gives you a guide to how many tracks a station plays over a set period of time, and how much variety there is.
And best of all, the results are completely down to you as an individual – so there can’t be any implied bias. In fact, picking three bands at random from my collection, Metallica, The Lemonheads, and The Charlatans, Absolute Radio wasn’t the top result for the three, although it was in the running every time.
As with the recent launch of a user-controlled radio station, Dabbl, it’s currently in Beta and there are plenty of plans for the future, so give it a go and share your feedback…
Climate change and Blog Action Day
October 15, 2009 By 4 Comments
Every year I’m interested, amazed and impressed by the worldwide effort for Blog Action Day.
This year, the theme is climate change, and there have been some really interesting posts.
And I could easily post about how you should be working on a recycled laptop which runs on compost. Or I could link to 20 solar powered gadgets to boost my Amazon earnings.
But staying true to what I believe, the way to tackle climate change for individuals isn’t down to punitive measures (For companies, I think more pressure is needed for a lot of them). For individuals, I’m a huge believer in both having inspiration and the whole Herd/Crowd theory.
Which is why the most inspiring thing I’ve ever seen as a car-loving, motorcycle-riding, racer-wannabe petrol head was the 2009 Isle of Man TT when they held a completely green race.
I’m currently on public transport wifi, so can’t link direct to Youtube, but seriously, check out the green TT. And the fact cars are planned to join in 2010.
I firmly believe it’s about giving individuals the right choices for them, and not forcing the choices of a few on the many. Inspire people and they’ll be interested. I’ll probably never lose the love of two stroke motor when I attend a race, or the sound of a loud MotoGP fourstroke, despite the fact I recycle, use public transport, and in stereotypical dad mode, spend my life turning lights off.
But that’s me. I’d willingly spend anything to own an expensive V8, but offset every gallon of petrol by the actions I take elsewhere in life.
But every single one of you is different, and if we can’t apply our social media, behavourial targetting, global niche, monitored, research, inspected learnings to finding ways people want to tackle this shift, then we’re doomed.
And for the climate change nay-sayers – you’re entitled to your opinions, but you can’t deny that humanity has destroyed so much that we need to act now, whether it’s under the climate change banner, the conservation banner, or just the ‘no evil’ banner.
