What does 2012 hold? Apart from the Olympic blame game (a mutual game of blamestorm over the late delivery of transport/venues/etc) that is.
Everyone's talking about
Seesmic this week. Well everyone that has managed to get the 'pre alpha' testing. Seesmic is a new video messaging service (think video voicemail, but published to a website) which is quite cool, but not radically new.
Achieving quality inbound links is still an important element to SEO. The methods to achieve this include 'link baiting' with great content to achieve the best unsolicited links through to purchasing links on smaller directories which yields less benefit.
Much attention in the office is being focused on the shiny new Xbox 360, complete with extra control pad and games that's sitting in the corner of the office. Sadly for the Chinwag crew, it's destined for a lucky entrant to a Chinwag Jobs prize draw.
The Chinwag massive was out and about yesterday, firstly taking in a Chinwag Live 'On Tour' session at ad:tech London, followed by a swift beverage across the road with friends, colleagues, contacts and exhausted exhibitors from the show.
Interesting to see that the social network frenzy continues unabated. So, Facebook finally grabs the UK's No. 1 social media slot from Myspace.
Here's a question to set your Friday synapses firing.
Is living in the post-scarcity world of ubiquitous digital content actually *bad* for us? Now maybe it's just me, but isn't this your curmudgeonly grandad speaking?
There's nothing like a good debate to rattle the cages.
Our Chinwag Live panel discussion last week Web TV Takeover seemed to work in that regard, and the coverage is mounting up.
The event itself was pretty fiesty even by Chinwag's past standards - as you'll see from the opinions and highlights recounted in the blogposts below.