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The fabulous Horsesmouth team is looking for a community manager. Are you just the person they are looking for? Get in touch with me (kcorrick at gmail dot com) if you’re interested.
Community Manager/Website Editor for horsesmouth.co.uk
£25-30kWill “own” and manage the horsesmouth.co.uk site and community on a daily basis. They will create, generate and drive the topics, content and tools that will inspire, motivate and build the community and which keeps it fresh, rewarding and self generating.
The Community Manager/Website Editor will act as first point of contact between the user community and horsesmouth, and will work in partnership with and provide key inputs to the horsesmouth team. They will drive and execute link strategy for the site and will oversee policy, SEO and SEM strategy and website analytics. They will report regularly on site activity and will manage and liaise with the outsourced moderation team. They will also supervise the horsesmouth blog and ensure key inputs are regularly provided.
The successful candidate will need to show a strong track record in a similar role, either as a community manager or site editor, and ideally with user-generated content or community based sites. You must be familiar with web content management and analytics systems and must be able to make basic HTML changes to the system. Excellent written and other presentational skills are a must and public speaking experience is an advantage.
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“Flash Player has severe problems with separation anxiety - once it’s loaded some content, it has a really hard time ever letting it go. Technically speaking, it is extremely difficult to make Flash Player 9 unload ActionScript 3 content.”
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Six writers, six weeks, experiment by Penguin in interactive storytelling.
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Data Visualization and Statistics site.
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A really simple and understandable guide to Phorm
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Mozilla Firefox on the verge of gaining 29% use share in the European countries.
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UK Internet advertising expenditure grows 38% year on year to reach £2.8 billion in 2007
Market share was 16% for second half of 2007 as online exceeds forecasts
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Dixerit creates a high-quality audio version of your web content in real-time. Our service offers your visitors an alternative way to access public and corporate information, listening to it online on their PC, on their mobile device while on the move or
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Import your favorite RSS feeds, organize in channels and vocalize with different voices, and download as a podcast on your device
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Must go.
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Alternative to BlogPulse.
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A new study, to be released today by McKinsey & Company, reveals in some of the clearest terms yet the sea change that is under way in business software.
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Ad-supported free music service
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“MindMeister supports all the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool - only online, and with as many simultaneous users as you like!”
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TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system. Typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool
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Thinkature brings the richness of in-person, visual communication to the web by placing instant messaging inside a visual workspace. Use it as a collaboration environment, a meeting room, a personal web-based whiteboard, or something entirely new.
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“Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others.”
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Free tool. Upload your designs in a collaborative workspace. Collaborate, Stakeholders review, comment and markup designs.
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Twiddla is a no-setup, web-based meeting playground.
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Coming Legislation Makes It a Criminal Offense for Brands to Falsely Represent Themselves as Consumers
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“Tesco will start printing “carbon scores” on some of its goods this week, as part of a Government-funded project to force retailers and manufacturers to reduce the environmental damage from carbon dioxide emissions.”
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Create colorful mind maps online , share and work with friends , embed your mind map in your blog or website, email and print your mind map, save your mind map as an image
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“Dimdim is the world’s free web meeting where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees”
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“Express your creativity in a massively collaborative film about music”
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“With Spike Lee’s help, we’re co-creating a film about music and the shared human experience.”
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Hat tip: Infovore.
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The latest project from mySociety…. In development.
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TechCrunch UK integrates Seesmic into their comments. Worth watching to see what happens.
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Online Project Management, Group Collaboration and Document Sharing
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Wrike is an integrated online project management solution that helps you manage projects, teams and businesses.
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“Enterprise level social networking tool - provides employees with individual profiles, automatically populated from their daily work, network visualisations and search so they can connect with the people they need at work.”
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“One billion people in the world don’t have access to clean drinking water. 2 million people, mostly children, die from contaminated water… Co-op are seeking to provide safe, clean water to one million people in Africa.”
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Where Jeff states: ‘I think we’re seeing a new definition of “the economy.”’
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“Unlike shows such as Kate Modern, which are made up of sporadic scenes, Chalkhill is real episodic drama in half-hour chunks that enable viewers to engage with characters at a deeper level… While Bebo’s Kate Modern is picking up awards for its eight-mi
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“Watch, buy, and rent Movies and TV shows, stuff from BIG and small producers alike, and Blinks, the ability to clip your favourite part, personalise it with text, and use it as you wish.”
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“A new report released today by Forrester Research is predicting that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is going to increase dramatically over the next five years. This increase will include more spending on social networking tools, mashups, and
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“Enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies will grow strongly over the next five years, reaching $4.6 billion globally by 2013, with social networking, mashups, and RSS capturing the greatest share.”
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Creative Examples and Ideas | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
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“It turns out that bloggers - along with the rest of the media - are also now able to make use of a special form of privilege, known as “The Reynolds defense of Responsible Journalism.” “
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Facebook launches it’s own analysis/trends tool to users.
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“Search is dead”
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Adobe’s new photo site: Flickr + photo editing tools. Available only in the US at the moment.
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Tim Wright’s latest, most marvellous, creation.
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Creative Synthesis, have created evolutionary software that alters colours, fonts and hyperlinks of pages in response to what seems to grab the attention of the people who click on the site.
A lovely post here from Gavin Starks looking at how this year’s sea-ice has recovered and what that might mean.
He proposes that sea-ice measurement should be part of the weather forecast, which reminded me of a similar proposal made on a recent BBC tv programme - which I can’t remember the name of and I’m unable to find a relevant link - for the inclusion of the position of the Gulf Stream in the daily weather forecast.
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“LifeAt keeps residents in touch with everything their community has to offer, creating private online communities for residential properties.”
Details of how you can get involved here.
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How does a town just disappear?
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“I let you into my life. You let me into yours. It’s that simple. No more than a few minutes a day – I promise.”
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“A comprehensive guide to the last remaining communist state in Europe”
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Slabovia.tv is an online representation of the Slabovian State Communications Network and its various media output.
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“Video! Video! Video! The rumours are true and “soon” is now. We’re thrilled to introduce video on Flickr.”
Huh?
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“Internet ad spending beat expectations last year as companies targeted a growing - and increasingly female-heavy - web audience and tapped into the emerging trend of online TV-watching.”
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It had to happen sometime I guess.
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Yep, Downing Street have their own Twitter account. 1,109 followers and counting.
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“Here’s a novel way to encourage young children to brush up on their oral hygiene – turn a toothbrush into a simple version of a Nintendo Wii remote and turn a chore into a fun computer game.”
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Convert ARTAC files - unique to Sony - to MP3s, with official software. But beware, it doesn’t enable you to convert what it describes as “copyrighted” tracks… yes, tracks that SonicStage itself decided to protect as “copyright” when you decided (quite
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A new approach to the car pool, fleet and taxi/car account.
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“IN 1991, Stewart Alsop, the editor of InfoWorld and a thoughtful observer of industry trends, predicted that the last mainframe computer would be unplugged by 1996. Last month, I.B.M. introduced the latest version of its mainframe, the aged yet remarkabl
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Lovely intro into visualisation by Robin Harrison (hat tip: SocialSim)
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These two anamorphosis maps shows the rail travel times in Europe: 1993 for the first one and 2020 for the other. Taken from Spiekermann, K. and M. Wegener. 1996.
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A fascinating collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
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US based report by The Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Free PageRank Calculator
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FriendFeed is service for people to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that their friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.
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“At this moment, the next big story in technology may reside on a blog you’ve never heard of or a news site you don’t have time to scan.
So I built a software agent to surface these links in real time and the result is Techmeme. Coverage is driven by a m -
Some interesting YouTube stats from Digital Ethnography, including… time it would take to view all of the material on YouTube (as of March 17th 2008): 412.3 years
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The women on the Web.
More details of what it’s all about here: http://www.wowowow.com/post/welcome-wowowow (no about page yet).
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So when I met “60 Minutes” reporter Lesley Stahl when she was interviewing me for the CBS News (CBS) show’s piece on Facebook that aired in January, she told me about a Web site she was working on with a bunch of close women friends in New York.
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The biggest news of the week — well, besides the governor-erect (hat tip to the New York Post) — was not AOL’s purchase of Bebo or Yahoo’s embrace of the semantic web (about which I remain skeptical) or certainly Lacygate. No, the biggest, most ga
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Be paid to network. US based, non-US residents check the small print. Feels like a pyramid scheme and has been criticised strongly - http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9795029-2.html.
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A _must_ read.
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flickrSLiDR allows you to easily embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website or blog. All you need to do is enter the flickr URL address of the user, photo set or group you would like to embed along with some options. You’ll receive the HTML embed
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“Go live with your life by streaming anytime, anywhere — right from your phone. Be an eyewitness, capture those first steps, or whip up your own streaming video blog.”
Imagine how this could effect news coverage.
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With Flixwagon, you can broadcast live or keep videos for later, upload to your blog, and much more. All just a click away from the comfort of your mobile phone. Check us out and become a part of the Flixwagon revolution.
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Over the last few weeks, the story that BT, Virgin and TalkTalk are signed up to trial a new technology called Phorm, which tracks users’ online surfing habits in order to target ads at them, has caused a storm all over the internet….
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Increased demand for bandwidth-hungry services is worrying ISPs, says Claudine Beaumont
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“The social networking site MySpace is to target advertising to its members in Britain by using information posted on their profile pages.”
It was bound to happen sometime.
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Hearing test…
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If you thought it was bad enough that all your friends, and even your mother, want you to keep up with them via their Twitter pages, your plants could now do the same.
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blackr is a bookmarklet you can put in your browser’s bookmarks bar. Later, when you are on a photo page or one of the “All sizes” pages on flickr, you can click the bookmarklet and it will hide everything on the page behind a soothing black canvas excep
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If you have just blown the budget on a new high-definition TV, look away now. Japanese broadcasters and the BBC are working on a system 33 times more detailed than the best sets on the market.
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Maybe you don’t like flying, or are concerned about air travel’s contribution to global warming. Or perhaps you just prefer real travel by train or ship, where the journey is part of the adventure… Either way, The Man in Seat Sixty-One will tell you
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An online social tool for frequent business travellers.
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holidays that give the world a break
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Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. So far we have 17,871 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe.
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Deutsche Bahn website and timetable. Details when booking trains include a map, mobility check and details of the environmental impact of the journey.
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Are you traveling frequently using the same trains and would like to be informed about delays or platform changes?
SMS-Alarm will notify you free of charge about any changes of your journey.
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Up-do-date information about strikes and interruptions during rail traffic disturbancesfor Swiss rail users
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http://mobile.sbb.ch to access SBB’s time table via mobile phone.
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Railways are an environmentally friendly and efficient form of transport. Railway traffic accounts to less than two percent of all traffic emissions in Finland. Traffic emissions can be reduced by e.g. adding public transport services and bicycle and pede
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BT is preparing to test Phorm’s advertising targeting technology on 10,000 of its customers this month, to gauge people’s reaction to their web browsing being exploited for extra revenue.
The trials will begin mid-March and guinea pigs will be drawn from
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The eyes and face that follow your every mouse movement.
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“Alaska Airlines is introducing a system on the Internet to create unique advertisements for people as they surf the Web. The company is combining data from several sources to paint a picture of the consumer sitting on the other side of the screen…”
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Beta version of IE8 launches. New features/improvements include: Activities, WebSlices, Favorites Bar, Automatic Crash Recovery, Improved Phishing Filter.
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Mildly amusing and informative post on the launch of IE8.
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Upload travel photos, journals, and videos.
» Share them with friends and families. No registration needed!
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Travel Journal Online, Online Diary, Travel Website, Web Journal, Travel Blog, Travelogue, Holiday Photos, Online Journal
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Travel Journals, Travel Blogs, Travel Reviews, Travel Photos
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Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.
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Your place to buy and sell all things handmade things
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Make your own book with Blurb. Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them.
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British 15-to-19-year-olds admit spending significantly less time doing homework than they used to as a result of their use of social-networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, according to research published today.
