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Re: iPhone app shootout Thursday

Niall Harbison — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:51:51 -0000

The genius feature did go some way to helping the situation but there is still a huge problem with finding good apps. What is even worse as somebody who has developed a few is promoting them. You can have the best app in the world but getting the nessage out is next to impossible even if you have a massive marketing budget.

Re: At Your Service: Twitter Data and Sentiment Analysis

Niall Harbison — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:31:40 -0000

Sounds really useful. Looking forward to seeing some of the data it produces. Have been looking for some sort of public widget likt you speak about for E here for a long time fr clients.

Re: Bringing Trust Agents and Six Pixels to You

Niall Harbison — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:02:03 -0000

Sounds like a decent idea and good to see that you have the honesty of saying that it is with the main goal of selling books but just wondering if the logistics of it will actually work. I mean you are going to have to get some seriously passionate people out there rounding up 200 people at a time for you. Be interesting to see how it all pans out

Re: Google Wave’s unproductive email metaphors

Niall Harbison — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:29:00 -0000

I notice you mentioning that Skype is a good option but TBH any time I get involved with it doing work it ends up being nearly worse than an email. I still find that even though people can be a real pain in the ass to talk to the phone is an incredibly useful and efficient way of communicating :)

Re: The Psychology of Twitter with Dr. Drew

Niall Harbison — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:17:58 -0000

To a large extent I really think it is fueled by self promotion. I would say 70% of people are there to sell or promote something. The problem is that you can get an idea off the groun or traffic to a website instantly and very few other platforms offer that.

Re: Playing the Emotional High Ground

Niall Harbison — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:17:29 -0000

These are the sort of guys that you want on your team :) Get as many people like this around you and you will be laughing!

Re: List of Most Annoying Tweets

Niall Harbison — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:23:54 -0000

Yeah the Mafia family would have been a good one alright. Forgot about that :)

Re: Exclusive Video Of INQ’s Facebook Phone

Niall Harbison — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:23:25 -0000

Initial thoughts are that it is pretty slick and does all the basic stuff quite easily but I think somebody else will come along and do this much better. Very nice first effort though and it shows you just how dead email will become to a whole new generation and how spot on Facebook were with their new messaging system,

Re: 10 Reasons To Buy A Tablet (And 5 Reasons Not To)

Niall Harbison — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:08:17 -0000

I've had the iPad for nearly a year now and I ust never ever use it. I really think it's something that people use in bed to watch a movie or to bring to a meeting to be cool with. I just don't find them practical at all!!!

Re: Facebook Fan Pages Grow Up – Good Bye FBML, Hello HTML & iFrames

Niall Harbison — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:55:00 -0000

It really is a game changer and can't wait to see what people can do with these. Everything from shopping to travel bookings etc will now be possible

Re: Al Jazeera’s Social Revolution (In Realtime)

Niall Harbison — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:04:26 -0000

This doesn't relate to a revolution or anything like that. All this tells you is that news spreads via social networks a lot faster and not surprised by these stats. I wouldn't really expect people to be finding this sort of news via Google for example.

Re: Twitter barking up Twittad’s tree over slogan using the word “tweet” | VentureBeat

Niall Harbison — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:09:25 -0000

Maybe this has more to do with the fact that it is an ad platfrom more than anything? am guessing plenty of other companies use the word tweet! TWitter can't sue them all I am sure?

Re: Google Maps update for Android partly reveals why Google acquired Zagat | VentureBeat

Niall Harbison — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:12:35 -0000

Cool new features but I wonder how many people are actually going to use this? Google maps wouldn't be the first place I would think of going to uplaod a photo of my nice meal

Re: A Simple, Effective Way To Boost Your Creativity

Niall Harbison — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:16:46 -0000

And another little tip is to leave it beside your bed at night! You'd be surprised how much cool stuff you think about at night and then totally forget by the next day!

Re: The game of all games: content and context (why Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Benioff, and Larry Page are carving up the social world)

Niall Harbison — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:00:42 -0000

Listening to it here and some great thoughts already only 5 minutes in. It's one of the most interesting takes on it. The most important question is as you say....What is Google?

Facebook more or less have it locked up in the desktop space and I can't see Google eating in there. The really interesting part is the mobile space. Nobody has that one locked down yet at all and it's going to be fascinating to see who wins that one. That's where the HUGE money is to be made.

Google is spread to thin in my opinion. They are trying everyting under the sun at the moment from Zagat to Slide to Google + and their over aching strategy and vision might be good but they are trying to force social and will never be what Facebook and Twitter are. They might end up being some sort of useful tool and Google + will certainly affect search and SEO and there is plenty of money there so it will be relevant to some but it's certainly not going to win big socially.

On content we are only at the very start. Stuff like Twitter and Flipboard is great but they will be made look old and boring in 2/3 years time. The web or my TV or y phone will know everything about me then and serve me up content that I could never have found on my own.

It's an interesting space and certainly some great thoughts here. Those guys are much smarter than us but i'm not even sure they know where it is all headded given the pace of change

Re: Video Shows How Your Mobile Phone Will Become Your Wallet Very Soon

Niall Harbison — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:39:54 -0000

Yeah I suppose if done right there will be no more risk than carry your bank card around though

Re: 7 Unmissable Online Video Shows About Social Media

Niall Harbison — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:01:36 -0000

Bob thanks for adding those. I was going to include a couple and get up to 10 but the day job got in the way and had to finish the post off sharpish! Good additions though!

Re: How The Simmering Battle Between Facebook And Apple Is About To Erupt

Niall Harbison — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:05:28 -0000

I do agree that it isa tiny part of their revenue streams as are apps but you could argue that one of the main reasons that people buy iPhones and iPads is because of the music and apps that those platforms provide. iPads and iPhones do make up a large portion of their revenues.

Re: A QR Code infographic about what you need to know about QR Codes

Niall Harbison — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:47:20 -0000

Love it, it's like a riddle wrapped within a riddle! Was going to scan it and see if it actually worked but going to take your word for it!

Re: The Human Cost of Social Connectivity

Niall Harbison — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:55:23 -0000

I really don't think any of us have a clue what we are living through at the moment in terms of change and the way we can communicate openly. I think we all take it a little bit for granted. Our connected lifestyles might have consequences further down the line though. We all consume so much information right now that I'm not sure if we can take in any more yet the technology is moving so fast that we will of course constantly be doubling our consumption of data. It's all rosy at the moment but it might not end well!!

Re: [VIDEO] @Burberry and the Social Enterprise

Niall Harbison — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:01:20 -0000

Wow thanks for sharing. Great video and amazing to see the thinking they are putting in to becoming social. I've noticed them more and more online so it must be working.

Re: Just When You Thought The Winklevoss Twins Couldn’t Go Any Lower…

Niall Harbison — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:02:36 -0000

Yeah the big problem is that they wouldn't have a clue how to build out a social network like Facebook and they should have been very grateful to have got $60 million and walked away happily. I have a feeling they love the noterity more than anything. OF they are short of cash there are plenty of smarter ways they could have made a few quid (Speaking, interviews etc) and the fact that they are Olympic rowers that went to Harvard means they are probably not short of a few quid. Poor judgement if you ask me!

Re: Just When You Thought The Winklevoss Twins Couldn’t Go Any Lower…

Niall Harbison — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:32:51 -0000

Yeah without knowing more than what I have read in books, researched online and seen in the movie (obv not all true) it's really hard to know what actually went on. I am sure they did have a bit of an idea but I am guessing 100s of people did at the time as well. Their luck was to run in to Zuckerberg and tell him that idea!

Re: Just When You Thought The Winklevoss Twins Couldn’t Go Any Lower…

Niall Harbison — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:44:44 -0000

Not so sure with the florescent green pistachio ties :)

Re: Just When You Thought The Winklevoss Twins Couldn’t Go Any Lower…

Niall Harbison — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:18:01 -0000

Yeah agree it would have been the agency but they still signed up for the ad!