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New media ideas? Fail?

You know what I'm like, brain always ticking over and getting sidetracked onto tangents. A couple of times in the last week or so I've seen people moan about something on twitter and thought "You know what, I could make something out of that" First off was an idea for some kind of twitter enabled nutrition and weight-loss service inspired by Jon The Beef - something along the lines of "you tell it what you had for lunch and it works out your calorie intake". read more...
Posted at 11:33am on Tuesday 20th January, 2009
Tags fail freecycle ideas masters Social Media Technology whowants

Mash it up!

On Wednesday night at Manchester's burgeoning Social Media Cafe or #smc_mcr for short I ran a slightly impromptu session on Mashups. The idea was initially that after getting over the initial hurdle of making sure everyone knew what a mashup actually is or could be we would share some ideas and our favourite ones that we had come across. read more...
Posted at 01:27pm on Friday 16th January, 2009
Tags #smc_mcr Gigometer Mashup Social Media Technology