geetarchurchy
Matt Churchill blogs about music, digital culture and technology on Seldom Seen Kid, founded in 2008. He has been helping new bands to emerge as part of the music blogging scene and writing about the technologies that can help them breakthrough since 2006. A digital strategist by day, Matt helps brands keep up to date with the latest trends in online technologies. He is also an avid drinker of tea and purveyor of sport. He can be found on Twitter as @geetarchurchy.Here are all the Zath articles written by geetarchurchy...
Mflow Review (Update) – New HTML5 Interface & Recommendation Credit System
January 22, 2011
Last May we wrote about music streaming service Mflow and what affects the then new Spotify social features would have on the fledgling application.
Mflow have recently updated their offering and released a brand new web-based application which is currently rocking along quite nicely in beta.
The first thing you notice about the service is the tweaked interface which is now cleaner and more intuitive to use.
However, what is very cool about the update is the use of HTML5 to build the service. It means that you can use any browser and Mflow will work with ease, making your experience identical no matter what your preference.
Continue reading »Top 7 Location-Based Social Networks
July 11, 2010
Location, location, location they tell us, is all important. Online it’s becoming increasingly pervasive with growth in smartphone take-up driving the development of location based social networks. In the UK alone there’s 11 million smartphone owners according to research outfit Comscore.
Why is it important to know your location when on the Internet? Well, if brands can tell where we are, as we are going to and from locations of interest, they can tailor their content and promotions accordingly.
Continue reading »Spotify Updates Social Network Integration, But What Now For mflow?
May 2, 2010
We’ve already covered the new, but now delayed updated Spotify features on Zath, and we like what we see. But, these new features, aren’t they, well, stealing the thunder of mflow a little?
Indeed, the new Spotify features have been so well received that the Swedish streamers decided to pull back their open download of the updates, choosing instead to automatigically update users’ interfaces over the next few weeks.
For anyone unacquainted with the service, mflow is billed as ‘the social music store’; it’s an app that lets you stream music (for a fee) and share it with your friends via social networks and through the service itself. Not only that, but it empowers you to share your favourite music because if one of your friends buys something you’ve recommended to them, you get a 20% cut.
Continue reading »Growing Importance Of Geographical Location On The Internet
November 22, 2009
WordPress is one of the biggest blogging platforms on the planet with over 7.5 million bloggers using their hosted service. Recently, they rolled out geo-tagging, which allows you to label your blog and blog posts by location, with the promise of new features coming soon.
The ability to search by area as well as “showing the location of your commenters, the location of poll votes, a live map view of blog updates on WordPress.com, or an annual report showing you where your posts were written and where your comments came from” will gradually be implemented and highlight the growing importance of location in the digital age.
Continue reading »7 Social Network Aggregators
July 9, 2009
Managing the potentially hundreds of online profiles that are now available to us can be bit daunting, and, in a worse case scenario, lead to a social network fatigue (that or you hit your PC repeatedly). There is, of course, help at hand, and as the rise of the social network has increased at an ecer quicker rate, there has been a growth in services designed to help you combine your online life into one easy to manage Ocean Finance-esque package.
Here’s seven of the best:
Continue reading »7 Techies To Follow On Twitter
July 8, 2009
It can be tough starting on Twitter, knowing who follow can be one of the most prominent barriers to entry for many people. Indeed, a recent Nielsen study claimed that 40% of first time Twitter users left their accounts neglected after a month.
This could be down to the fact that there’s no ‘guide’ as such, to help you locate people who have similar interests to you, so you find yourself in an echo chamber and bore of the service very quickly. So, here at Zath we’ve scratched our heads and come up with seven people you should follow to get your twitter tech juices flowing:
Continue reading »7 Mac Desktop Twitter Apps
April 29, 2009
Twitter is the thing right now. From Jonathan Ross to Jamie Oliver, from Peaches Geldof to Zath’s very own Simon Barker, over 4 million people are using Twitter to communicate and share ideas.
There are some cool ways to use Twitter from the comfort of your Mac desktop, rather than keeping a browser tab open and hitting refresh every 12 seconds – so, for all you Mac users out there, here’s seven of the best Mac desktop applications to make Twittering easier:
Continue reading »7 Strange Google Street View Sights (UK)
April 21, 2009
Since it kicked off here in the UK a few weeks ago, Google Street View has courted controversy with the residents of a Buckinghamshire village, Broughton, who refused to be photographed, and the privacy lobby who say that the service is against human rights.
Here at Zath towers however, we prefer to focus on the fun and beneficial side of the mapping tool. Here’s the top seven strange sights we’ve found so far as you take a virtual stroll round these fair isles…
Continue reading »Tweetdeck v0.25b Update – Facebook Functionality!
April 9, 2009
Nicely timed to coincide with an announcement from Seesmic’s founder Loic Le Meur that they’ll be launching a desktop Twitter app, Tweetdeck have updated their offering. The new v0.25b version of Tweetdeck was made available at 5pm GMT on Thursday with a whole host of new features which look to, at least until Seesmic rolls out, confirm the platform as the premier Twitter desktop app.
Twitter, Welcome to the Mainstream! Just Don’t Drown!
January 7, 2009
On Monday, it was reported that LinkedIn had sccumbed to an attack as fake celebrity profiles were posted to lure unsuspecting users into handing over their personal details. The business networking site, which has over 30 million registered profiles worldwide, also came under attack in June 2008 with a similar ploy.
We’ve seen in 2009 with an unprecedented amount of news, flowing from cyberspace and nestling out of newspapers, talking about phishing, malware and all other sorts of malign Internet behaviour. First Twitter, and now LinkedIn, have been subject to attacks from hackers and cybercriminals just days into the new year, and we may well be on an upward trajectory as more and more people start using the services.
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