Web Geek™, Senior Manager, Digital @RMIT, a social media maven, Google-aholic, simplicity, UX and customer experience advocate, and a bit of a Star Wars nut. Hit my Google + profile below for more info. Kthnxbai! 
Love Instagr.am? I do too, but getting photos off your phone and instragrams non existent web site is a bit of a pain. You can use extragram to view them, or http://www.ifttt.com for copying new photos to say a dropbox or flickr account, but a simple way to get older images is using copygr.am.
Just sign in with your instagram account and your on your way to download all your photo filter-y goodness. (Thnx to +Robert Scoble )
In the smouldering aftermath, some politicians, keen to shift the focus from social inequality, have muttered darkly about the role of BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook – frightening new technologies that, like the pen and the human mouth, allow citizens to swap messages with one another.
As usual, sharp wit and crystal clear observation from Charlie. Particularly liked the quite above and his observation on social media and the politician's knee jerk reaction that (shock!) people used twitter to communicate the riots and thus let's ban everything.
A sad day.
A cool little site letting you pick your social button. Click the image to fight!
I've not had as much time as I would have liked to dive deeper in to Google + over the past week, but every day it just keeps getting better. Maybe it's the smaller crowd, maybe it's the G+ geeks like myself, but this service IS your social network. Not Farcebook's ad ridden, group adding, farmville, face tagging tosh version of your social network.
Well in truth I'm sure all the ads and games and other items will sadly come along at some point, but until the + on!
As social media dominates our lives, (can we all just have a break now?) no wonder College Humour came up with this rather fun, but for prudes, NSFW vid.
Many big brands are sadly only just now realising through Social Media, that they have deeper connections with customers than previously thought.
That, and of course they know that the deeper they (ahem) penetrate their customers hearts and minds, the more money and brand loyalty they get.
Say what you like about my favourite coffee chain, they make a lot of people buy $5 coffee and more every day, and that's only about to get bigger.
As many brands wake up to expanding into experiences, changes are beginning to happen. I'm deeply attached to the 2nd and 3rd gen Starbucks logo. And while I don't want to change, and many fans have been vocal about the change, new customers are joining along with new generations and new options for the brand.
Starbucks ventures into digital networks is just one of may avenues they intend to apply their experiences too, and with large retail sales of coffee and tea merchandise, more will come.
Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz explained the change as part of Starbucks strategy to expand beyond its core product."Even though we have been, and always will be, a coffee company and retailer, it’s possible we'll have other products with our name on it and no coffee in it,” he said in a statement.Green tea latte here I come.But branding experts are critical of the logo change, likening it to the ill-fated attempt by US clothing chain Gap to change its well-known logo in late 2010. A social media backlash eventually forced Gap to revert to its original logo.
Erminio Putignano, managing director of FutureBrand Australia, says companies need to consider their business culture when creating a logo to avoid having to change it later. “More and more, brand management is about the culture. [It’s about] the people behind the start-up and the staff,” he says.
A random oatmeal I came across today is still timely, as just received someones new website complete with huge RSS icon, shiny graphics and wait for it...flash intro.
It's almost retro : )
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