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"It's certainly got the basis of something interesting – but then again, what are the odds on Twitter themselves coming up with something similar for their oft-discussed brand tools for monetising the service?" - Badger Gravling

"Hi, and thanks for the comment – you're spot on with your regulator point, as it actually appeared in my feed reader shortly after I'd published this post, and I've been trying to find time to edit the copy since! And Brightsolid certainly would have the genealogy market pretty sewn up – I wonder if Friends Reunited will just gradually be phased out, or just kept on life support as a potential feeder for customers…" - Badger Gravling

"Learnstreaming seems quite an interesting concept and process – something which gives more than lifestreaming for more people!" - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Recently, "Eddie" from our engineering department described in intricate detail, what he had to do to music playing on our phone system. That proved so popular, we thought you'd appreciate his recent detailed note about how to place elastics on microphones should you find them tangled." - Badger Gravling

"Congrats and good luck..." - Badger Gravling

From the page: "So FriendsReunited is now owned by Brightsolid, a subsidiary of comic publisher DC Thompson, which paid ££25 million in August but still hasn't added the sites to the official website. And their first move is to buy traditional TV advertising?" - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Quite funny seeing which stories followed each other on PaidContent this morning â€" one story is following the response from UK ISPs to Lord Mandelson's proposal to disconnect illegal filesharers , but that immediately followed that the EC has set a two month deadline to overhaul UK rules on digital privacy.Or the UK Govt will end up in court." - Badger Gravling

"You gonna mention it to Seth Godin> (Famously doesn't have comments on his blog/use Twitter etc but does have a closed community at Triiibes)" - Badger Gravling

From the page: "As a user of Twitter, I'm undecided whether lists will be a positive thing on balance, but as a Twitter observer it's one of the biggest steps they've made in a long time towards making money." - Badger Gravling

From the page: "I've written on more than one occasion about my concerns radio in the UK is settling in as a back-seat passenger in the digital revolution. With print and TV and online finding new ways to innovate all the time, the radio bods have turned up the 'oehits and memories', closed their eyes and pretended it was still the 1990s." From the page: "I've written on more than one occasion about my concerns radio in the UK is settling in as a back-seat passenger in the digital revolution. With print and TV and online finding new ways to innovate all the time, the radio bods have turned up the 'hits and memories', closed their eyes and pretended it was still the 1990s." - Badger Gravling

"Hey - next time you're in London, give me a shout and pop into One Golden Square for a tea/coffee/soft drink..." - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Hannah Nicklin describes herself as 'brightly coloured playwright, tech-enthusiast, blogger and academic'. Among her interests are 'the democratising power of the wiki-ethic'. And she is a strong defender of the contested Amendment 138/46 to the European Union Telecoms Package, which declares internet access as a fundamental right" She has just written an open letter to Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, who has been considering legislation that would block the internet accounts of copyright violaters. And she's not exactly in a mood to pull her punches: - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Absolute Radio is now the first radio group to hit the 50% national digital listening penetration target set out in the Digital Britain report earlier this year. Digital innovation is core to the station's business and Absolute Radio continues to lead the radio industry. The station recorded 51.5% of the stationâ's national listening on a digital platform, compared to the industry average of just 21.1%." - Badger Gravling

"Did you not paste it in HTML view? :)" - Badger Gravling

From the page: "There's just a few days left in the month, and a combination of work, family illnesses and Forza Motorsport 3 are limiting my blogging, so I thought I'd take a look at which posts were most popular this month:" - Badger Gravling

And they've given me more than 3 reasons not to vote Labour - how ironic - Badger Gravling

"See, I knew you'd start applying more rigourous logic to the tracking! I'll definitely start looking at those pages, but the flaw will be if Twitter is mentioned in contexts other than technology – such as celebrity, or general news. Plus there's no handy number for a total of articles on those topic pages! But there's definitely a lot of scope for improvement, as Jonathan and yourself have said – I'll be investigating better ways shortly as there seems to be some interest in the findings!" - Badger Gravling

"See, I knew you'd start applying more rigourous logic to the tracking! I'll definitely start looking at those pages, but the flaw will be if Twitter is mentioned in contexts other than technology – such as celebrity, or general news. Plus there's no handy number for a total of articles on those topic pages! But there's definitely a lot of scope for improvement, as Jonathan and yourself have said – I'll be investigating better ways shortly as there seems to be some interest in the findings!" - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Although Ashton Kutcher has people following him on Twitter than the entire UK news industry, in terms of online readership, the UK news industry has pretty good reach, with The Telegraph, The Guardian and The Daily Mail all attracting over 30 million unique users in September 2009. So I thought it would be interesting to see exactly which ones were mentioning Twitter the most â€" and to keep it simple and relevant for everyone, I decided to only use their search functionality to work it out: So which newspapers have mentioned Twitter the most?" - Badger Gravling

From the page: "This is the first post by new contributor Lauren Fisher, who specialises in online PR and social media at Simply Zesty - and can be found on Twitter at @laurenfisher. Yammer seemingly suffered the fate of many internet startups. It benefited from the initial buzz of being a new brand, with the handy association of both microblogging and launching at TC50 , but failed to retain the traffic. The site traffic for the "Twitter for companies" has been largely unstable, certainly not following an upward trend, failing to get anywhere near the initial 200k visits it reached on its launch in September 2008." - Badger Gravling

"This is the first post by new contributor Lauren Fisher, who specialises in online PR and social media at Simply Zesty – and can be found on Twitter at @laurenfisher. Yammer seemingly suffered the fate of many internet startups. It benefited from the initial buzz of being a new brand, with the handy association of both microblogging and launching at TC50 , but failed to retain the traffic. The site traffic for the ‘Twitter for companies’ has been largely unstable, certainly not following an upward trend, failing to get anywhere near the initial 200k visits it reached on its launch in September 2008." - Badger Gravling

I've got happy memories of studying at Western Washington, and to be fair, the combination of the surrounding scenery and alcohol levels in my bloodstream would have made me oblivious to a unicycling clown - let alone if I was on the phone as well... - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Absolute Radio is trialling a new iTunes podcast store to showcase its array of more than 100 podcasts. Apple will also allow Absolute to incorporate sponsorship and promotions into the new iTunes store." - Badger Gravling

"Absolute Radio is trialling a new iTunes podcast store to showcase its array of more than 100 podcasts. Apple will also allow Absolute to incorporate sponsorship and promotions into the new iTunes store." - Badger Gravling

From the page: "If you're looking to publish any RSS feeds to a Twitter account, then apparently you wouldn't be alone in picking Twitterfeed, as it's apparently used by nearly 350,000 publishers. Not only was it around the first default choice, but there are a host of changes now going live to improve the service." - Badger Gravling

"You appear to be confusing marketing with recommendations. Marketing can be about developing a product to be remarkable, interesting and shareable - not just sending you a tweet to get you to visit a site or buy something. And not everyone is necessarily good at building a remarkable product." - Badger Gravling

Write-up of CompareMyRadio - Badger Gravling

From the page: "One of the most popular Twitter clients, Tweetdeck, has added new features in the latest release, version 0.31. It's pushing forward as one of only two Twitter clients with a share of over 10%, as measured by Twitstats. Included in the latest release is a new notification system which can be applied to certain groups. Plus it also has inline reply, retweets and direct messages inside the notification menu." - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Discover, vote and share your Song of the Decade Absolute Radio is embarking on a mighty mission to find your Song of the Decade. We've got every track that's appeared in the Top 75 of the Official UK Chart since the turn of the millennium, so search and vote for your favourites now." - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Finding the best radio station is obviously a subjective experience. Are you looking for a particular band or genre? Do you want somewhere with variety? And how on earth do you find the station thatâ€s right for you as an individual without going through every stop on the dial and noting down what they play for a whole day or more?" - Badger Gravling

"As I said, it's not so much about climate change for me as it is about all of the environmental effects that we have on the planet. Even if the climate stays the same, we've still made, and are making, plenty of species extinct, for example…" - Badger Gravling

"As I said, it's not so much about climate change for me as it is about all of the environmental effects that we have on the planet. Even if the climate stays the same, we've still made, and are making, plenty of species extinct, for example…" - Badger Gravling