links for 2008-04-17
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Jon Bounds has started at wiki for Birmingham with some rather neat mapping involved. Like Wikipedia only different. And about Brum. Get adding stuff.
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Another journalist with a blog, this time from the 4Talent stable. She’s finding her feet so go say hi. (And do scroll down to the excellent Torchwood review!)
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A blog by the artist Edward Bond. I don’t like to give value judgments in these links but this is a really fantastic blog. Read it now.
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Interesting looking service out of Coventry that aparently has 500,000 users
Pete Ashton | Filed Under: Links
having a look at youmeo.com, i have to admit (& call me cynical if you will) to being dubious - it’s amazing that a social networking site based in the uk which nobody here appears to have heard of can boast so many members, & that when one does searches for combinations of people choosing some fairly obscure search criteria, it still claims ‘100+ pages’ of results - yet when you look at the profile pages they’re all ‘new on here’ with no friends yet. i reckon most of the members are made up just to make the place look busy.
i do wonder if there’s any point in a new social networking site with general reach entering the market at a time when myspace, facebook, & bebo have pretty much got saturation coverage (& are indeed apparently now in decline); i’d say for new entrants to the market to have any point they’d need to be niche rather than general.
youmeo is new, if I read correctly, I’d heard of pplparty.. got an account on there somewhere. The new site looks good, features could give facebook a run for there money? I agree with empty profiles tho..
I don’t think we support local companies enough, hence why all the success stories are abroad. I say c’mon bham.. or Coventry even!