Igor's premium selection: Diaspora
Igor selects websites, apps and cool little bits of tech he finds out and about when he’s not busy eating sushi and noodles. This month he looks at alternative social network Diaspora.
Igor selects websites, apps and cool little bits of tech he finds out and about when he’s not busy eating sushi and noodles. This month he looks at alternative social network Diaspora.
Here is this month’s selection of random giant flipflop monkeys, electronic memorials and giant paper boats I’ve gathered from around the web. I’ve also highlighted some of the finest royal tat now cluttering up eBay in honour of next year’s wedding. Feel free to join in and let us know what other unmissable stuff you’ve found out there this month.
Here’s a collection of my/ our fave posts, articles and other online stuff that you might have missed from the week that was. It’s got everything from considerate thieves, bananas, action figures, knitwear, Lego and much more. Enjoy. Oh, and do feel welcome to post links to other cool stuff that you think we might of missed.
During my working day (and beyond), I get a lot of people asking me “what is the next big thing in Social Media/ Networking?”. One trend that seems to be developing right now is the process of ‘narrowcasting‘. Narrowcasting is exactly what is sounds like, the idea of reaching a narrower group of people. Social media has done broadcasting. Everyone on Facebook has more ‘friends’ than they have ‘actual’ friends or LinkedIn connections than are really tried and trusted business contacts. There was that mad rush or as we call it the ‘Pokemon‘ phase (Pokemon tagline is “Gotta catch em all!” and set players the challenge of collecting all Pokemon).
You can’t go anywhere these days without someone talking about HTML5 and CSS3. OK, Maybe YOU can, but I can’t. So if you don’t know your pseudo-class selectors from your attribute selectors then here are a few links to the kind of things that may be appearing in your browser over the next few years.
A viral video ad for Coke and Mentos has been voted the best online marketing campaign of the decade- even though neither brand were involved in its production.
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