Category Archives: Social Networks

Oxford Geek Dates June and July 2010

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Graeme Hunter

A new list of geek-like meetups in Oxford for June and July 2010: Oxford Game Net New meet up for Oxford Gamers: 29th June 2010, The Jam Factory Social Media Day Oxford: 30th June 2010, The Jam Factory TweetUp at … Continue reading →

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Models of Communication

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Graeme Hunter

I had an interesting conversation this week with socialistgamer at oxtuttle about voice comms within games. It reminded me of my old communication studies A-level course many years ago, and of the classic formal models for communication. I promised to … Continue reading →

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Oxford Geek Dates for the diary

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Graeme Hunter

I thought I would do a little round-up of forthcoming geek events in Oxford, as we seem to have quite a few these days: Oxtuttle (first in the list because I help organise it!): 17th June 2010, The Honeypot Oxford … Continue reading →

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Oxford Twestival 2010

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Graeme Hunter

This year I’ve volunteered to help organise Oxford Twestival 2010. I went to the first event last year, which was a great evening bringing together Twitters from all over Oxfordshire to raise money for charity. This year’s event is being … Continue reading →

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Getting Google Buzz to post to Twitter

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Graeme Hunter

Google Buzz has been out for a couple of days now. It certainly seems to be getting a lot of attention, personally speaking it looks a lot more active than Twitter was when I first joined it. There is quite … Continue reading →

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Crowdopensourcing

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Graeme Hunter

A quick chat on twitter today turned into a rather large comment on Ben Werdmuller’s blog. Ben had written about how game dynamics, such as the scoring mechanism used by Foursquare, gets involvement from its users in a competitive sense, … Continue reading →

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frylift – basically Stephen Fry stuck in a lift

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Graeme Hunter

Have had a little fun tonight following @StephenFry on Twitter. Following this tweet: Ok. This is now mad. I am stuck in a lift on the 26th floor of Centre Point. Hell’s teeth. We could be here for hours. Arse, … Continue reading →

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how not to get followed on Twitter

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Graeme Hunter

There are so many reasons in that single image as to why I did not return this user’s follow…

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Is tonight the night that Twitter takes off in the UK

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Graeme Hunter

It is said that Twitter may be discussed by Jonathon Ross and Stephen Fry on Ross’s chat show, tonight on BBC1. If it is mentioned (and we don’t know it will be, that could have been edited out), it could … Continue reading →

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How I Twitter

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Graeme Hunter

I’ve been finding over the past few months I’ve been using Twitter more and more. I have used it for quite a while, but recently I’ve found both more friends and colleagues using Twitter, and have found more people I … Continue reading →

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