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Twitter list of top UK fashion bloggers

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

If you are a regular Twitter user you’ll know that the last couple of weeks has been all about lists. Thanks to a tweak to the Twitter website users can now make lists of users and shares them with others. There’s a good post on how this works here.

So will lists transform the way that people use Twitter? It is too early to say at the moment. So many people now user third party software to access their Twitter account and only a handful of these apps have added list functionality to their offering. For the record lists are available now on Seesmic, but not on my favourite Twitter system Tweetdeck or the many mobile versions of Twitter.

One of the most interesting things about the lists is that its shows how people perceive/categorise you. One Shiny Redder is in ‘awesome music related list.’ ‘top London folk’ as well as other social media types.  I am waiting to be included in a Scott Walker obsessives list

Anyhow in a spirit of generosity and sharing I worked with the editor of Shiny Style, Andrea Petrou, to produce a list of UK fashion bloggers on Twitter. It is by no means comprehensive, but includes most of the main bloggers who update their websites more than once a day.

While doing the research I was struck by how vibrant the UK fashion blog scene is. There are lots of very professional looking sites that have great content that are constantly updated. Along with the equally vibrant mummy blogging sectors the fashion bloggers put two metaphorical fingers up to the notion that blogging in the UK is on the wane.

It is also interesting to note that most of the successful bloggers have hooked up with one of the major blog networks. So in fashion the key players are Handpicked Media (which has a huge selection of titles including the excellent Queens of Vintage), Aigua Media (which has several ex Shiny titles like Catwalk Queen) and Shiny Media itself which boasts Shiny Style and Brandish.

The list is here

Feeding your friends gets popular again

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Sandrine at Buzz Attitude has written a post on the renaissance of FriendFeed. About 12 months ago, it appeared at a one-stop-shop for social media, but user interface issues meant that although sign-up was high, usage wasn’t so great. Recently, it’s had a revamp and the results are impressive – very usable, and great for tracking conversations across a range of social media.

Friendfeed allows you to follow your friends updates, not just from one platform, but from their blog, twitter, flickr and many other accounts. So while Twitter seems to be less about people you actually know – with Friendfeed, with all the additional information, it might be that users prefer to subscribe to a fewer number of people but receive larger amounts of information.

We’ve mentioned the client vs. browser battle before on the blog, and one of the things we’re keen to see in action is Seesmic desktop, it’ll give a good indicative picture of whether the social media trough will be based on the web or in an application.

My instinct is that is will be application based – simply because of the mobile aspect to this dilemma, mobile web browsing has been notoriously difficult to pull off, whereas the application explosion for the iphone and similar devices has shown just what hunger there is for building some great pieces of software. Since the mobile will become our primary computer (for some people, this is already the case), it makes sense that this should be the big focus for social media companies. A mobile app that combines Google Latitude and Friendfeed? Now that’s something I’d pay for.

Stuff we like – May; Seesmic’s desktop, Spoonfed’s iPhone app and blogs about bus shelters

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Every so often the Shiny Red team gets together over lunch to talk about stuff we like and don’t like while chomping merrily on posh, but overpriced crisps.

Today’s session was exceptionally good as it threw up a series of very cool links, which we decided we’d like to share.

 

So here’s what we have been arguing the toss about this week

Seesmic’s new desktop tool ““There are fans at Shiny Red who love the new Seesmic tool as it brings together Facebook status, Twitter, Seesmic and images in a very clever Tweetdeck style desktop tool. Funny how two years ago all the pundits were championing web based apps at the expense of desktop ones- but now desktop ones are everywhere ““ Tweetdeck, Spotify etc

Microsoft’s Vine ““ We are keen to check out the beta version of Microsoft’s Vine, which we’ll call a Twitter for emergencies. Basically it allows you to notify your friends if something bad eg flood, tidal wave, T-Mobile Flashmob, is about to happen in their area.

Hudson Jeans Twitter feed ““ a good example of a small-ish company working proactively using Twitter. Made our resident Hudson fan very happy.

Ilike.org.uk ““ Fantastic example of a vibrant niche blog (it has loads on interesting 20th century architecture ““ bus shelters anyone?) which has a lively community.

Zaproot.com ““ Still the best online news video show. Amazing editing, superb use of images and a hugely talented presenter.

Spoonfed’s iPhone app ““ We have been banging on about how location based services will start to get seriously sexy for a long time now. Spoonfed ““ a what’s on for London ““ has now got a really cool iPhone app called Spoonfed Radar which shows you where exciting stuff is happening. You have to see it in action to get it. It is a bit basic at the mo ““ but has huge potential.

Twitter.com/justforgirls -  Interesting example of a Twitter news feed ““ this time picking up on cool stuff online for girls, which isn’t linked to a website. We all wondered out loud why she was doing it and if she wanted to make money out if, but cool content whatever.

New York billboard art ““ Apparently some old NY billboards have been whitewashed which has give a green light to the city’s art collectives to come up with really cool things ““ see here . Wouldn’t it be great if we could do the same thing in London?

ASOS Community ““ Interesting attempt by a brand to develop its own community. Our resident  ASOS addict thinks that it is doing well so far, but we wonder if a lot of that UGC is actually generated by ASOS staff. Only time will tell if it works, but a bold and ambitious move

Thru-you ““ The best music mash up we have seen on YouTube in a while. Genius

 

 

 

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