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My new iPhone rocks...

2008-07-18T14:46:00.002+01:00

But this cost £20 and works with Skype. Great little piece of kit and a lot better to carry around and looks a lot cooler. It works exactly like a standard phone but with some key features. Detailed Product Description Forget what you have seen on the market This is the ULTRA COOL - ULTRA LIGHT - ULTRA SLICK USB SKYPE TELEPHONE Compatible with VoIP solution such as Skype Make FREE internet

Anyone for an iPint? The iPhone is changing content consumption - literally.

2008-07-18T09:45:00.005+01:00

I have just returned from a roadtrip across the US and Canada on various strategic work assignments and i am now completely converted to buying an iPhone. Everyone i engaged with in on my trip mentioned the iPhone at least once and with the new release their was plenty of media coverage also, i even managed to play with the new 3G version which a colleague had purchased and he was showing me

Digging for dirt on the corporate hard drive

2008-07-11T20:44:00.004+01:00

I read this really interesting article in Wired magazine, enterprise 2.0 will need to think about making content safe for the workplace. Way back in the 20th century, when Ford Motor Company was sued over a faulty ignition switch, its lawyers would gird for the discovery process: a labor-intensive ordeal that involved disgorging thousands of pages of company records. These days, the number of

Measuring social computing and valuation of engement

2008-06-21T13:54:00.004+01:00

As most of you who subscribe to my blog will know I have a passion for measurement and analytics. This comes from years of suffering at the hands of the 'HIPPO' effect and because i come from a background in B2C where knowing the customer and the user was imperitive to the success of projects i was involved with. Some of you may have already heard the term "Customer Engagement" (CE) refers to

The CIA embrace Web2.0 for the Enterprise - Spy's Blog!

2008-06-20T00:00:00.005+01:00

Yes i know it sounds crazy, but i can confirm that the CIA have fully embraced web2.0 computing and are even happy to stand up in front of 1000 people and demonstrate. I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Enterprise2.0 conference last week in Boston and can i add that i landed in the middle of a heat wave - was knocking the door at 100 degrees and here is me turning up in a wool suit,

Why Social Computing for Enterprise makes sense

2008-06-08T17:12:00.005+01:00

I have been working in the digital space now for over 10 years now and worked for some leading global organisations and in all this time it has baffled me to why organisations still don't adopt more of a collaborative working practice. For some years now i have tried to understand why organisations have not tried to leverage technology to make life easier for their employees as they strive for

The impact of blogging and social media on business

2008-06-04T16:47:00.001+01:00

Business week have featured an excellent front page story entitled 'Beyond Blogs' which essentially summarises what i have been evangelising about for some time now. That companies who do not address or try to understand the impact of social media, blogs, communities and online collaboration are both missing major opportunities to leverage knowledge and maximise cost effecting working practices

Faceparty bans users over 36 years old

2008-06-01T20:59:00.001+01:00

Social Networking site faceparty have made the controversial decision to ban users over 36 years old. They will also be axing existing accounts stating that older users pose a danger of sex offending. "Having discussed the use of the site with the police and the home office, and some further pretty serious crimes caused by older users, we were left with no option but to terminate a huge amount of

Viral Loop Expansion breeds Social Media Success

2008-05-27T18:40:00.005+01:00

I recently read a fantastic article on Marc Andreessen (founder of Netscape) and the development on Ning. I was fascinated to read about the "viral expansion loop" which is something i had not heard of before but under a various guises had evangelised about. The concept is around enabling users to share content, information, code or anything else for that matter. The whole web2.0 phenomenon

Websites suck becasue of the 'HIPPO' effect

2008-05-27T13:30:00.001+01:00

According to Avinash Kaushic websites are suffering due to the 'Highest paid person's opinion' and i could not agree more. I have been designing and developing websites and interactive applications for over 12 years, in all this time i have experienced this at every level and it can cause stress, anxiety and in some cases major losses to some businesses. I have no issues with opinions and i must

Don with 'King' at Arsenal Box

2008-05-06T12:09:00.002+01:00

Don with 'King' at Arsenal Box Originally uploaded by craighepburn So here is the situation, i am at the last Arsenal home game of the season at the Emirates stadium. I am enjoying a quiet drink with some friends in one of the many boxes around the stadium and then it happened......out of the blue some very loud familiar american dude shouting "OH MY GOD" with US and UK flags comes over to

Could facebook chat undermine news feed

2008-04-23T13:04:00.004+01:00

As normal i booted up the old PC this morning, launched firefox and checked my newsfeed of Facebook....and then there it was in a big yellow box on the bottom right hand side of my browser - a notification that facebook chat was now live. I instantly thought 'Nightmare' and posted my views on twitter " facebook chat - just what we need another distraction. Extreme Social Media

Web2.0 could be worth £2.3 Billion by 2013

2008-04-22T11:48:00.003+01:00

The recent report by Forrester which suggests the web2.0 and social computing market could be worth as much as £2.3 billion over the next five years is no surprise to anyone engrossed in this space. I would even go as far to say that this is a conservative estimate from my knowledge of the recent benefit to commercial organisations such as the travel and leisure industry. The key is having the

Twitter + Friendfeed = Social Search

2008-04-17T14:22:00.004+01:00

I have been reading some fascinating blogs and and websites recently on social search engines. New search engines such as Maholo.com. Mahalo is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms. Our search results only include great links. I still feel that current search technology is poor and i spend so much

Breaking News 02 Screw up new billing system

2008-04-17T10:30:00.003+01:00

Some breaking news that i thought would be a worthy post. 02 the UK mobile network provider and current distributor of the apple iPhone in the UK has screwed the migration to a new billing system. It appears this has causes all tariff details for customers to be lost. Not received any more details but if anyone is having issues with o2 currently please let me know. Will update as the story

The BBC get personal with website relaunch.

2008-04-04T12:16:00.002+01:00

In the office we have been discussing the new release of the BBC website and there have been some mixed reactions on the changes to the design, layout and personalisation. In the interests of research i decided to ask my peers on LinkedIn what they thought. Below are the responses i have had so far. I look forward to hearing your thoughts or comments. Q. Do you think the BBC website is now

EMI Appoint top Google Exective to run digital strategy

2008-04-03T13:02:00.002+01:00

I have read today that EMI have appointed Douglas Merrill to head up their digital strategy which i believe believe could have a major impact on the music industry as a whole. Finally the music industry will have a proven digital expert who gets the web. Who else believes that we could soon be downloading music for free and instead opting to have advertising placed in between tracks based on our

Speaking Freely on Spinvox

2008-03-26T18:47:00.001Z

Below is my first attempt at using spinvox to update my blog via mobile, for my first attempt and strong Glaswegian accent is has not done to badly. I need to be quicker though and pronounce my words more clearly. I will be attempting to brush up on my voice to blog skills over the coming weeks. Keep posted. "Hi, this is Craig. I'm just currently at the office doing some final emails. I just

At last Yahoo, Google and mySpace have agreed on OpenSocial

2008-03-26T12:56:00.004Z

As most of you who read my blog will know i am an evangelist of OpenSocial and OpenID. So it was great to hear that Yahoo have finally agreed to back the OpenSocial framework specification. Read the article below from Reuters as published on ZDNet.co.uk. Yahoo said on Tuesday that it is backing a program by rival Google to make software work fluidly across different social networks, and will

The US network sprint ahead on mobile social networking

2008-03-26T11:24:00.007Z

I read a great quote to an advert today in Wired Magazine which stated "Social Networking was invented in 776, via the messenger pigeon. 1,300 years later we've enhanced the concept." This caught my eye so i decided to pay this advert some more of my attention and i was very impressed to see that Sprint the US network provider are pushing the boundaries of true social networking via the mobile.

Craig Hepburn is a lazy blogger! But im back...

2008-03-14T14:08:00.003Z

Hi everyone and I must apologise for being a poor blogger over the last month, shame on me! I have just been incredibly busy actually doing things that i can blog about. So hopefully i will have some interesting news and views on this crazy place they call the web. So recently i have been reading some interesting books, which i thought i would share with you, the first one is called the 4 hour

Keep up your AWEARNESS by reading this blog.

2008-02-28T15:02:00.001Z

I recently came across a really interesting blog site that covers areas such as social rights, hard times, well-being and the political landscape. The awearness blog is produced and maintained by Electric Artists and they have managed to sign up some great names such as Kenneth Cole, KT Tunstall, David Hershkovits, Marc Schiller and many more great contributors. I would highly recommend

Social Operating Systems could become a reality.

2008-02-12T11:59:00.000Z

A recent report compiled by US thinktanks the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative has identified 5 main technologies that will effect learning institutions over the next 3 to 5 years. The area that interested me most which i don't believe will be tied only to learning technologies is the development of social operating systems and social networking systems. I can truly

Flash is coming to the iPhone at last!

2008-02-12T11:08:00.000Z

Over the past couple of months you will have read about my disappointment over the lack of flash support on the iPod touch and the iPhone. Well i have just heard today from a private source and some postings on Digg that apple have agreed a deal with Adobe and flash support should be on its way soon, i have no confirmed dates as yet but i would expect this to be released with the iPhone SDK or

Microsoft + Yahoo! = Social Networking Solution, or maybe not...

2008-02-06T16:43:00.000Z

As most of you will now have heard, Microsoft would like to acquire Yahoo or are Yahoo planning on buying Microsoft.... who knows these days everyone is taking over everyone online but who will be the first to join forces and solve the mystery of making money through social networks. Well i was planning to write my own blog on this but it seems this has been blogged to death, so instead i found