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Eileen's Social Technology blog · 1w ago

Frictionless sharing and the implications of ‘Intellectual Privacy’

If you have ever been slightly disturbed by sharing information about your location, the movies you watch and the books you read, take care with what you write.  Frictionless sharing will share information about your activities amongst your Facebook friends without you even knowing that it is happen
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Eileen's Social Technology blog · 1W ago

Advertisers continue to run campaigns on Facebook but GM pulls out

Creative agencies are all in agreement. Facebook is the place where they intend to run their advertising campaigns. According to the All Facebook blog the graded results were: Facebook 85.1 per cent YouTube 44.8 per cent Twitter 39.1 per cent Google Plus 24.1 per cent LinkedIn 21.8 per cent None 10.
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Eileen's Social Technology blog · 1W ago

Rotating ballerina illusions and our foolish eyes

Wow.  I love illusions that fool our brains totally.  I’ve been frustrated with the right brain, left brain illusion of that spinning dancer for ages until I worked out how to see the rotation both ways.  Now there’s a spinning ballerina illusion that just foxes me too. Have a look…   It is impossib
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Eileen's Social Technology blog · 2W ago

What your Facebook status complaint really means

For everyone who has ever complained on Facebook.  here’s what is really behind those complaints… From Steve at Bite. So true … Eileen is a social business strategist, ZDNet columnist and author of Working The Crowd: Social Media Marketing for Business. Contact her to find out how she can help your
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Eileen's Social Technology blog · 2W ago

50 per cent of Facebook users go mobile

Facebook is responsible for some staggering usage numbers.  It is due to cross the billion user accounts milestone in summer, just after its IPO.  One billion users.  That is, one in seven of everyone across the world are on Facebook in some form or another. And lots of us use Facebook from our mobi
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Eileen's Social Technology blog · 3W ago

Create an infographic from your tweets with Visual.ly

Here’s a little bit of fun.  Create your own Infogaphic from your tweets from Visually I think I should work on my enthusiasm.. I’m also concerned that the fork is aimed at the cat I’m carrying.  Well at least it’s not wine Go on have a go   Eileen is a social business strategist, ZDNet [...]
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Eileen's Social Technology blog · 3W ago

Spam 101 lesson 1…

Spammers, take note. I’m hardly  going to click the link if when I hover over the hyperlink, I get a completely different URL to the one I was expecting. It might also be useful if you used a more recent date for the email message too… u Better luck next time… Eileen is a social [...]
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Eileen's Social Technology blog · 3W ago

Air New Zealand putting challenge at 30,000ft

Are you bored when you fly long distance on planes?  Have a look at the latest promotion from Air New Zealand.  It sponsored the PGA Pro-Am tournament and held a putting challenge whilst in the air. As the plane flies nose up, you will need to know how to putt down hill, and I’m sure [...]
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Eileen's Social Technology blog · 4W ago

Google’s patent filing gives us ultra targeted ads

Google has filed a patent giving it an insight to where we are when we use our mobile phones.  According to the Mail, this technology could glean information from the background sounds in your environment and use this to deliver more targeted advertising to you The patent ‘describes using ‘temperatu
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Eileen's Social Technology blog · 1M ago

Fifteen ways to amuse yourself when phone spammers call

  I seem to get more and more unsolicited phone calls nowadays.  In addition to the regular calls telling me I have a virus or malware on my PC, I’m getting more and more calls I don’t want. I’m bored with just putting the phone down on the callers. I want to tie up their [...]
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