A drawn out history of stuff

Twitter tools I'm lovin'

2012-11-08T13:53:00.003+00:00

A nice tool for tracing the relationship between Twitterers and #hashtags - click a link and see where it takes you.

Very clever way of mapping your most influential followers or finding interrelations between seemingly unconnected user names http://twiangulate.com/search/

Paper.li widget

2012-10-19T12:32:00.002+00:00

These guys now offer some widgets for their papers - quite neat. Here's one I created earlier.

Behance

2012-10-01T13:13:00.001+00:00

Very interesting website: http://www.behance.net/ Aimed at creatives but the sharing is really interesting and some of the images are amazing.

Largest Telecoms Companies In Africa

2012-09-28T08:05:00.003+00:00

Article from IT News Africa lists:

MTN South Africa
Vodacom Group (South Africa)
Telkom (South Africa)
Orascom Telecom (Egypt)
Maroc Telecom (Morocco)
MTN Nigeria (Nigeria)
Orascom Telecom Algerie (Algeria)
Mobinil (Egypt)
Safaricom (Kenya)
Telecom Egypt (Egypt)

The also did Top 10 African Mobile Operators To Follow On Twitter which is interesting

Nice Infographic on What Works for Blogs

2012-09-24T08:54:00.001+00:00

Love #tweettopicexplorer

2012-09-03T10:14:00.003+00:00

Not sure how long it's been like this, but really like the latest display format from Tweet Topic Explorer - where it visualises your tweets as well as showing the most recent posts.

The image shows an image from our corporate account @totaltelecom but it works just as well on my less prolific personal account: http://tweettopicexplorer.neoformix.com/#n=robdchambers

It's especially good how you can pick out a key word and see #hashtags relating to it.

What are the kids up to?

2012-07-13T10:07:00.001+00:00

Fantastic compilation of numbers put together by Business Insider from various sources...

Smartphones for breakfast, PC for lunch

2012-07-06T14:44:00.000+00:00

There's a great graph that obviously came from the FT, but was distributed via the Specialist Media Show which showed the differing patterns of web browsing by device across the day:

Survey Forms by Google

2012-05-10T07:42:00.000+00:00

Just completed a survey forwarded to me by an old uni Alumni, interesting that it was hosted on Google Spreadsheets.

Possibly an alternative to SurveyMonkey and the like, although I don't know how flexible it is.

Another neat litle tool from Google!

Love Infographics - love this list!

2012-04-18T07:20:00.001+00:00

Daily Tekk compiled this fantastic page about infographics. I especially like http://vizify.com/tweetsheet/

Crowd or cloud funding

2012-04-18T07:20:00.000+00:00

BBC reports that Smartwatch breaks record for crowdsourced cash to fund start-ups via Kickstarter, raising £1.8m.

This is a really interesting model inviting people to submit their funding needs via an innocuous looking website, but already it has created three ventures where more than £1m in funding has been raised.

YouTube player customisation

2012-03-23T16:48:00.001+00:00

Useful Blog post from Terrapinn:

What all the code in this actually means:

http://blogs.terrapinn.com/online-video/2012/03/23/youtube-player-custom-functionality-basics/trackback/

Trends in Hereness and Nowness

2012-03-23T11:45:00.002+00:00

Picked up via gleonhard via www.futureof.biz

US consumers lead the world trend, here, surely, but this is happening everywhere: Speed and Nowness are 2 trends that are changing the way we live, buy, create, communicate (and not always for the better, either). Read what I have said about these trends why these links: http://gerd.fm/nowandhere Found via my futurist buddy Stowe Boyd (http://www.onlinegraduateprograms.com/instant-america/ for full version)

Quick & simple App Build

2012-03-23T11:42:00.000+00:00

It's basic, but it's easy, AppBuilder let's you make iOS or Android apps by template - free or at low cost.

Fast Company article

Visual.ly makes #infographics easy

2012-03-13T08:55:00.001+00:00

It's a bit limited at the moment, but Visual.ly is making it easy to generate professional infographics. I'm sure it will be more flexible very soon, but at the moment it's easy to use Twiiter or Facebook accounts.

Here's an example of @totaltelecom vs. @telecoms
infographic created with visual.ly

Twitter Tools for Wordpress

2012-03-05T08:34:00.001+00:00

These sounds really useful Twitter tools, but sadly just for Wordpress.
http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress

I may have to think about moving this blog to Wordpress, but in the meantime will try on the Total Telecom Advertising Blog

Neat picture manipulator

2012-02-29T17:44:00.001+00:00

Silly, probably, useful not sure - sometimes. http://www.befunky.com/ Fun certainly.

Redesign your photo's, easy and free!

Videobuilder tool

2012-02-29T08:57:00.000+00:00

Just come across Videobuilder - looks an interesting tool for building video channels and curating content.
http://www.videobuilder.tv/

Some big companies are already using it. Recommended by @carolynmorgan

Neat Mind Mapping Tool

2012-02-28T09:47:00.000+00:00

I've been using Mind42 for Chrome - it's a really nice simple to use mind mapping tool.

The ability to login across any browser is great, indeed the only way I can fault it is the lack of a widget for #tablet or #smartphone - add these and it will be near perfect!

How fast is your site

2012-02-13T09:16:00.000+00:00

Nice little tool on the Level 3 website, Total Site Performance

I compared www.totaltele.com with some of our competitors and we're looking pretty good, the image below illustrates us against Informa's telecoms.com

They also let you download a nice little video showing how fast you are compared to the 'rival'

Useful #Hashtag Tools

2012-02-13T09:06:00.000+00:00

Sprout Social wrote a useful article on finding the best Hashtags - some of the best tools they flagged are:

What the Trend: http://whatthetrend.com/
It tells you what's trending right now and why. And you can follow @wtt for the latest trending hashtags.

#tagdef http://tagdef.com
Tool to generate definitions of Hashtags - sadly seems a little under-populated

Trendsmap http://trendsmap.com/
Nice graphical interface showing what's trending, where and lets you pick up on who's talking about it + list of globally trending users.

Twubs http://twubs.com/
Really nice idea of groups built around #hashtags. Includes and interesting looking conference solution.

All useful additions to the standard hashtags.org

Building the Mobile Web

2012-02-02T16:11:00.000+00:00

Came across the Mashable article 8 Tools For Easily Creating a Mobile Version of Your Website, just when I needed it!

Really surprised firstly that there were so many self-service options, secondly that those I tried were so easy to use, and thirdly that they were so cheap!

Can't claim to have tried them all, but especially like Wirenode, which seems to have a following from big names. Quickly and easily build a demo site for Total Telecom: http://totaltele.wirenode.mobi

Time and Date - great tool

2012-02-02T10:17:00.001+00:00

Love this website www.timeanddate.com/ especially the function to work out international dialing codes - really useful.

Quick web pages, but why?

2012-02-01T17:46:00.000+00:00

I just created this page on CheckThis

It was quick (very), easy (very) and possibly pointless... Why wouldn't I create a blog page, just Tweet it or something else. Maybe it will grow on me?

TechCrunch wrote an article on it Between Nothing And ABlog - which is probably just about true...

Visualisation Tools for Infographics

2012-02-01T12:52:00.000+00:00

Infographics are big business and to make them you need decent visualisation tools.
Make Use Of wrote an article on tools, and these are a couple of the best...

Many Eyes from IBM - http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/

Great tool, easy to use, just as long as you format your data right.
Example of the Global 100 Top 10

StatSilk - seems like a great tool for visualising maps, but quite complex to use - at least without applying yourself.
Really like this example: http://www.statsilk.com/maps/world-stats-open-data