1. An experiment with social media and my local environment

    I’m soliciting open and public responses about my local bus service, and using Get Satisfaction this took me all of about 15 minutes to do.

    I’m interested to see whether they will discover that they’re on the site without being prompted, and that people are trying to communicate with them there. Whether it will make any difference at all is of course the big question. It might not get used or it might just fill up with complaints and suggestions that go unheard.

    Here are your action points:

    1. if you live in Brighton and/or Hove go and read the comments or maybe even leave a suggestion or complaint
    2. add your local public services to Get Satisfaction, or maybe your whole council or local authority and all it’s various parts, and open up discussion in a public space

    Maybe we’ll turn alpha citizens into alpha geeks!

    Posted August 28, 2008 in the Services category, with the tags: , , , , and no comments yet

  2. Apple to sell ringtones?

    Think about it, it makes sense…

    • They have deals with the record labels already
    • They have a mechanism to transfer to a phone (iTunes)
    • They have a very large userbase
    • Profit on ringtones is higher than singles (and you could probably sell them for more)

    The iTunes transfer may be the key to this working. It’s certainly a lot cheaper to operate as it bypasses the mobile phone operators.

    So what’s missing? Well the Apple phone of course!

    Just a prediction…

    Posted September 26, 2006 in the Business, Mobile, Services, Web 2.0 category, and no comments yet

  3. Vox – the Flickr of blogging tools

    This is interesting..

    Pete invited me into Vox (here’s my page) which is essentially a hosted blog site much like Blogger or Live Journal. The difference is the way you interact with the community and your media.

    The reason I call it the Flickr of blogging tools is because of the first impression I had; you basically have flickr, but instead of photos you have blog posts. I can’t explain it any simpler than that. You have similar privacy options, tagging, sets, groups.

    Go check it out, I have a couple of beta invites still…

    Posted September 4, 2006 in the Blogs, General, Services, Web 2.0 category, and no comments yet

  4. Beta roundup

    There’s a few interesting betas i’d like to get in on… i won’t list the google/yahoo ones, here are my favourites at the moment:

    My friend Adam pointed me at this web based bug tracker:
    http://www.tailshq.com/

    And Ryan of DropSend is working on his new app, a marketing tool for newsletter owners:
    http://www.heyamigo.net/

    I’d sign up for both if you’re in the business of making or using webapps…

    A couple of web widget.. erm, things.. have appeared. (are they webapps?). They essentially let you build, share and sell, small plugins (although i’m sure they’d hate me calling them that!) to sit on people’s websites..

    WidgetBox, the web widget marketplace (placing itself as the big boy on the block)
    http://www.widgetbox.com/

    And then Jay has this going on:
    http://www.snipperoo.com

    Then sign up for mine too :)

    This is my first app, completely independently. being built by myself and Nick.
    http://www.pingbase.com/

    update://

    The day after i posted this i got an Odeo voicemail from Dan, the Tails developer…

    Posted July 3, 2006 in the Business, PingBase, Projects, Services, Web 2.0 category, and 4 comments