Tag Archives: Social Media

Posts discussing various aspects of social media, thoughts around the topic and the tools used within the social media space.

Twitter introduces new Lists feature

So, I just logged in to my Twitter account via the web inter­face and saw a notice men­tion­ing a new “Lists” fea­ture that Twitter have just launched. The notice read: “New! Lists. A great way to organ­ize the people you fol­low and dis­cover new and inter­est­ing accounts. (BETA) Lists are timelines you build your­self, con­sist­ing of friends, fam­ily, co-​​​​workers, […]

Tumblr is the next big thing

Tumblr, the pop­u­lar blog­ging soft­ware, is a hos­ted blog­ging ser­vice that enables users to post notes, audio, video, pho­to­graphs, quotes, links and con­ver­sa­tions all in one place. Not a full blog­ging sys­tem like WordPress or MovableType and not a micro-​​​​blogging ser­vice like Twitter, Tumblr is, I believe, a middle-​​​​ground between the two. I believe this to be the next big thing. […]

Do you use Twitter’s “Favourites”?

I do. The main ques­tion is, how do you use the fea­ture? Also, where do your favour­ites go, and can other users view them? For those unfa­mil­iar with the fea­ture, it allows Twitter users to mark a tweet as a “favour­ite” for view­ing at a later stage… kind of like an archive.

Prophets preach at NetProphet ’09

OK, not real proph­ets… and not really preach­ing either. Either way, before I start, let me some up my exper­i­ence of NetProphet ’09 in a single word: awe­some! NetProphet 2009, for those who don’t know (or those South Africans who’ve been liv­ing under a digital rock for the past few weeks) is a con­fer­ence that was held today for the […]

Win copies of Tweetie and DevonThink Pro on Mac Appstorm

A few minutes ago on Mac Appstorm, David pos­ted a com­pet­i­tion where read­ers can win one of two cop­ies of Tweetie, a Twitter cli­ent for OS X, or a copy of DevonThink Pro, an applic­a­tion used for fil­ing and organ­ising doc­u­ments, as well as aid­ing in the cre­ation of a paper­less office envir­on­ment. According to the blog post, the […]

Prank your friends on Zoopy’s “Framed”

OK, so April is com­ing to a close. That doesn’t mean that April Fools has to end. I think the team at Zoopy would agree. Earlier today, the team at Zoopy.com, a South African social media com­munity, launched a new cam­paign called “Framed”. This cam­paign enables users to prank their friends, neigh­bours, fam­ily or ran­dom strangers (be nice) and upload […]

Gatorpeeps — An African micro-​​blogging platform

“Africa’s talk­ing, are you?” — the Afrigator slo­gan, the com­pany that has (a few minutes ago) released it’s new product, Gatorpeeps, an African micro-​​​​blogging plat­form sim­ilar to Twitter. Gatorpeeps has some really nifty fea­tures, includ­ing hashtag (#) com­munit­ies, allow­ing easy cat­egor­ising of “peeps” (“tweets” on Gatorpeeps) as well as stream­lined search­ing on vari­ous top­ics through […]

Do non-​​personal Twitter streams work?

Is it not going against the core pur­pose of Twitter to use the ser­vice as a group account (for example, an account for one’s com­pany)? Does it really achieve the return that the com­pany is look­ing for in terms of inter­act­ing with their mar­ket? Do Twitter users catch on to this and not inter­act with the […]