Archive for the ‘social media’ Category

A blog post about not writing blog posts… more interesting than it sounds. Honest.

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Realised it’s been nearly a month since anything was added to the lexicon of fine words that is The Magazine. And there’s nothing worse than an attack of cobbler’s children*.

So then you’re faced with a blank screen and, of course, nothing in particular to talk about (or rant about, or rave about etc). But herein lies the point. Yes, there is one. (more…)

Job seekers: beware Facebook

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

According to research by careerbuilder.co.uk, the interweb increasingly plays a part in recruitment decisions, with 53 per cent of employers researching candidates on sites such as Facebook – and a further 12 per cent planning to start soon.
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The best songs of 2009? Discuss.

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Our commander in geek Ross Brown has used the wonderful 8tracks to select his favourite tracks of 2009.

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One political cause we can all get behind.

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Right, so Joe’s the winner of this year’s The X Factor and his cover of the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus song “The Climb” is odds on favourite to be Christmas Number One.

Or not… if the 707,390 (plus us) members of a Facebook Group have anything to do with it. We’ll all be buying copies of Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the name of”.

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How big is the Internet?

Friday, December 11th, 2009

It’s just a flash in the pan this t’interweb lark really isn’t it? Er, no.

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You can see the full version here.

Find out who’s defriended you on Facebook!

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

We know we shouldn’t care, it’s just a silly web site. But, yes, when a “friend” defriends you on Facebook, you like to know who it is!

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Not so you can begin a vendetta against them but there’s nothing more-annoying than seeing your Friend count go down one and not know who.

(Ed – there are actually a lot of things more-annoying but we get your point).

Now admittedly, if you can’t work out who’s removed you, that probably says a lot about your relationship. But still…

So, here comes Friend Drop (link will open a link to Facebook in a new window). Which tells you who and when someone defriended you.

It’s an interesting social experiment if nothing else. :-)

Right, we’re off to organise a vendetta…

Weird but strangely satisfying

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

No idea what’s going on here to be honest – but we do like it!

Find out more at We are om.