For the past few weeks I’ve been publishing three daily Twitter ‘newspapers’ with the paper.li platform and with the exception of a little pushback about autotweets getting a bit spammy, for the most part it’s been a positive and useful experience. 
paper.li is an easy to use platform that organises links shared on Twitter into an easy-to-read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag and I publish one which represents my whole Twitter community, another for the Isle of Man Twitter community and a …

For those of you drowning in email and deafened by the echoes of white noise of the social web, help is at hand.  It seems that some of the major platforms are finally getting to grips with the challenges of relevance.
First up are those smart people at Google who are launching the Priority Inbox, which uses your own behaviours to help judge which email messages are the most important to you.  If it makes a mistake you can correct it by clicking a button to mark a message more or …

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I’m heading to Montreal for the Art of Marketing on 30 Sept and am really excited about hearing marketing and branding authors Seth Godin, Mitch Joel, Andy Nulman, Max Lenderman, Avinash Kaushik and Jeffrey Gitomer.  It’s a one-day conference and the lineup of speakers is incredible. It’s hosted by Ron Tite, an expert in comedy and creative thinking.
The bumph says that delegates will gain a clearer understanding of how marketing has changed, what role it now plays in the buying decision, its impact on your business and ultimately …

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Perhaps Trix still are for kids, but a new study shows that social networks like Facebook and Twitter are no longer the domain of the younger generation; baby boomers are enthusiastically embracing online networking tools.
The report, Older Adults and Social Media, is from the Pew Research Centre and is based on a survey of 2,252 American adults, age 18 and older. It concludes that social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older has nearly doubled over the past year—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in …

I’ve been playing around with FourSquare for the past several months and while it’s a bit of fun, I’ve not personally realised much value from the location-based social network.  This is probably because I live in the Isle of Man and we don’t yet have the critical mass of users required to make FourSquare interesting to local businesses.
We do, however have a critical mass of Facebook users here on this little island.  That’s why the launch of Facebook Places is exciting!
Places is the new location-based and it’s available via an  …