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Twitter User underdog100 gets 300% increase in followers – in 10 minutes

November 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Blogging, Web 2.0

At 23:00, Jo Combs (twitter.com/underdog100) had just 37 followers
5 minutes later, Graham Norton had featured her tweets on his show, albeit poking fun at them, but, now, her followers had swelled to 110!

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Every time I hit F5, her number of followers increases

By 23:10 the count had grown to 130… around a 300% increase in 10 minutes!

I got bored at about 23:20, but by then, the follower count had grown to 140!
Not bad!

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Google Wave invitations for sale on eBay

October 1st, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Geek Speak, Web, Web 2.0

Google Wave invitations were sent out yesterday, 30th Septermber 2009.

Bizarely, I didn’t get one, despite being a paying google apps customer.
Anyhow, I wasn’t overly bothered – sure, i would like to try it out, but I wouldn’t part with cold hard cash to do so!

It appears some people will however:

A quick search on eBay (UK) revealed 3 for sale already!

Google Wave invites for sale on eBay

Slight deja vu of circa June 2004 when Google released gMail – people were willing to splash out serious bucks to try that out!

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Web 2.0 Logo Collage!

August 14th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0

I found this MASSIVE collage of Web 2.0 logos by AJ Batac

Certainly beats trawling through go2web20.net (as good a site as that is, it just takes too long!!)

He has made all the logos available on t-shirts and other apparel:
http://www.cafepress.co.uk/eggnyte

web 2.0 logos

(click to view full image)

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Web 2.0 Logo Generators

August 14th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0

  As a bit of a follow on from my review of the AJAX web 2.0 style waiting image creator I reviewed some time ago, I found a couple of Web 2.0 logo generators:

http://www.simwebsol.com/ImageTool/

This is the more “basic” of the two generators I tried.
Can add a “badge” to your logo, but you have to choose from a list of icons.
Here’s the result:

Logo 1

Quite nice.

http://creatr.cc/creatr/

Straight away you can see this is a more “advanced” tool.

There are many more styles to choose from, and you can specify the text in the badge – although this is limited to just the text. It would be better if I could adjust the size / colour.

Here’s the result:

ajblogo2

Obviously, this is only for someone who is either

  1. really lazy
  2. has no idea how to use Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop
  3. can’t be bothered to create a decent logo at the moment

I currently fall into #3.
As such, I made my logo on this blog a variation of the logo created with the more basic tool. I guess i just like the font more! But not the crappy “beta” badge.

I’ll get round to re-doing this entire site at some point…..

Here’s the settings I used:

 

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The result:

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I’m Waiting – Free Web 2.0 Waiting Image Generator

November 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Web 2.0

You know all those cool "loading" icons displayed on web 2.0 apps these days, while various AJAX calls go off and do their thing?

Well this site now lets you create them, painlessly, for free!

http://www.ajaxload.info/

Here are a few that I created:

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