Interesting news that Facebook has bought Instagram for a cool $1Bn. I’ve never really understood Instagram. Firstly – you can’t easily go to a user’s instagram profile from a tweet (unless you have the app) and see all the photos they have uploaded, nor can you browse other photos when you are on an Instagram web [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 15, 2012
in mobile, social media
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Tagged 1D, 6Sync, 6sync VPS, 6sync wordpress hosting, branded url shortener, build your own instagram, camera filters, dabr, diy, diy gram, DIY instagram, DIY photo blogging, diygram, facebook, flickr, HTC Sensation 4G, instagram, instagram $1bn, lc.tl, logies, Mathys van Abbe, mobile photos, moblogging, mobypicture, On Direction, photo blogging, photoblogging, pic, pic.lc.tl, ShoZu, thetodayshow, twitpic, twitter client, url shorteners, yfrog
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I was honoured to be asked to present a keynote at this year’s Online Marketing Conference & Exhibition held at the East Midlands Conference Centre, within the University of Nottingham’s campus. This post has been composed and published on the train back from Nottingham to London (thanks to East Midlands Trains free WiFi). The event [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 21, 2011
in social media
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Tagged #omce2012, about.com, AT&TNottingahm, backtweets, conference, DK, east midlands conference centre, emcc, flickr, Getclicky, gogle alerts, google, google profile, Graham Jones, grahamjones, iPad, klout, left prefrontal cortex, managefilter, mediasnackers, mobile, peerindex, prefontal cortex, slideshare, social, social media, social networking, Tippex, tweetdeck, University of Nottingham, url shortener, visible intelligence, visible technologies
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Following on from my recent post about trends to watch in 2011 (now apparently to be called 2K11), thought I would post about a site worth watching in 2011. I first came across about.me from a link on a person’s twitter bio that directed me to a profile at the site. The simplicity of about.me [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted December 21, 2010
in social footprint, social media
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Tagged 2011, 2K11, about, about me, aboutme, aggregation, analytics, aol, AOL acquires about.me, custom profile, dashboard, digital footprint, early adopter, facebook, faebook, flavors, flavors.me, flickr, google, linkedin, name search, one to watch, personal analytics dashboard, personal branding, reputation management, seo, slideshare, social brand, social branding, social footprint, social profile aggregation, trends 2011, twitter, twitter bio
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While not exactly mobile related, I received this interesting piece of news that Getty Images has teamed up with Flickr. According to the PR who sent me the details, ”Getty Images embarked on this partnership was to offer its clients the chance to purchase genuine, unexpected imagery which would otherwise be unable to be licensed”. More [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted June 17, 2009
in flickr
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Tagged facebook app, flickr, flickr app, Flickr Clouds, Getty Images, imagery, images, licence, mobile photos, photographer, photography, pictures, widget
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Many you reading this post are probably are aware of the product adoption curve – an example is shown below (from Wikipedia). It is based on Everett Rogers Technology Adoption Lifecycle model - here is a quick refresh below. Summarising the curve in words – from Kzero’s blog Innovators are brave people that are willing to [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 6, 2009
in thought leadership
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Tagged Crossing the Chasm, dabr, delicious, ealy adopter, early majority, Evertt Rogers, faebook, flickr, Geoffrey Moore, innovator, Jane Fonda, laggard, late majority, linkedin, mobile, new technology, technology adoption curve, technology adoption lifecycle model, technoogy adoption curve, tweetdeck, twitter
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This post has just been featured at WOM World/Nokia. Just over a week ago I took delivery of a shiny new Nokia E71. Those who have been following London Calling lately will know that I have been waiting excitedly for the E71 to be released, having been an early adopter of both the E61 and E61i. [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 9, 2008
in Nokia
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Tagged business phone, E series, E71, E71 experience, e71 goodlink, flickr, goodlink, goodlink e71 keyboard, goodlink nokia bug, google mobile maps, gps, handy taskman, hsdpa, iphone killer, Nokia, nokia e series, nokia e71, Nokia E71 power user, nokia E71 review, nokia maps, nokia upgrade, psiloc connect, should I buy a Nokie E71, ShoZu, WOM World Nokia
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I picked up the latest Carphone Warehouse brochure yesterday – always a good read for market research. I came across this full page O2 ad below. I’m a loyal Vodafone customer so no need to switch – but I love reading mobile company small print for a laugh. Reading the small print, it says “When you [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted July 20, 2008
in advertising
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Tagged advertising, brochure, carphone warehouse, fine print, flickr, legal, o2, orange, outdoor, proof read, small print
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An interesting evening was had tonight at Home in London, where Dominic Travers and Ryan Carson from Carsonified hosted a dinner to gather thoughts about the next Future of Mobile conference to be held in London in November. An excellent gaggle (is this the right collective noun?) of thought leaders in the mobile space were [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted July 7, 2008
in conference
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Tagged carsonified, data tariffs, dopplr, flickr, future of mobile, handset UI, mobile advertising and location, N96, qik, twitter, zeitgeist
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I have been writing a lot about mobile social networking lately, and over the past 2 days have experienced the power of it first hand. Below is a summary of how a few reasonably low resolution pictures of the new Heathrow Terminal 5 on opening day ended up on a new social media website, Now [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 29, 2008
in blogs, media, social networking
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Tagged BA, bbc, crowd, flickr, heathrow, journalist, media, mobile, networking, news, nowpublic, powered, reporter, ShoZu, sky, social
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