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the legacy of Tom Philip on Instagram

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Feb 122012

I love Tom Philip’s A humument , and now I find his legacy has been memorialised on Instagram, thanks to

social developments

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Oct 172011

Great infographic from ignite revealling interesting stats about the current state of social networks. I’ve never even heard of many of the most popular ones, I’m guessing they are Chinese.

Here are some specifically Australian stats.

The new delicious (no sic, it’s spelled differently), features themed ‘stacks’, curated by users and represented visually. A good way to collate and display a list of things online, so long as they are visually strong.

Need another new social media startup in your life? Try Lutebox. According to TheNextWeb:

The problem the platform is seeking to solve, according to Ali, is that people don’t normally have a central point online where they can consume instant, on-demand premium entertainment whilst interacting in real-time with their friends.

So how does it work? Users purchase Lutes, which are virtual credits, which can then be used to buy premium content. And users can club together to pay for a movie – as though they are hiring a DVD and watching it together in the same room. Lutebox takes a fixed commission fee from every transaction, while returning the remainder to the original content owner.

One small limitation to their world dominating blurb: it’s only available in the UK at the moment.

Just in case you think social media is an irrelevant fad, here are 10 social media events that shook the world. [OK, is might still be a fad. OK, the title is shook, not changed.] Social media may not be a fad, but it certainly gives rise to theme. Interesting article about Twitter trends.

MyWorldShared, an Instagram photo exhibition.

post-umbilicalism

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Sep 222011

At our place, we’ve just decided to dump our landline. What has been holding us up for a couple of years was our need for broadband speed, but it seems our carrier has finally worked that one out. And our phone bills should be cut in half.

Meanwhile, it seems that people are using mobile more and more for reading their email according to Litmus and summarised on ReadWriteWeb. Many interesting stats about email use, including the above extract from their infographic, have been supplied by Litmus, although as ReadWriteWeb points out, the data’s international and private applicability is limited.

Five years ago we were spruiking how mobile phones would deliver what was then called ‘rich media’, mainly by corporates wanting to to cash in on data costs. I guess its finally come true (although data has become cheaper, and many of the services free, so the corporates are relatively silent). One of these services that I’ve taken to, like a fish, or a bird, in the water/air, is Instagram, which has notched up 9m registered users and well over 10m downloads, according to an interview with Kevin Systrom on TheNextWeb.

Instagram’s design motivation was:

“The app store is 90% full of solution-based apps … But do they solve a problem?” A good question, but it was this concern that was the building blocks of Instagram. “Let’s focus on problems, not solutions” was the ethos as Burbn turned on its heels and morphed into Instagram.

The problems that Instagram solves are ‘beauty, speed and distribution. So true!

All this mobility, so little need for it. I should get a sleepbox, and give up home. Unfortunately they don’t yet make them collapsible or inflatable. And of course I’d need to put a baby change table in there.