Archive | April, 2012

The Parisian Pinball Park

20 Apr

More (good) gamification of the mundane.

How to Spam Facebook Pages Nicely

16 Apr

Part of the horde that spam popular Facebook pages mercilessly?

Thanks to the rollout of Timeline for pages have some common courtesy and ask the page admins if they allow you to post on their page walls BEFORE you go ahead and do so. Use the new “Message” button under the page’s cover image to privately message them with your request.

The Facebook page Message button

If your post is of genuine value to page fans and the admins can see some benefit they may allow you to do so. Going ahead and just doing it anyway may result in your post getting deleted and getting banned from the page.

Google’s April Fools’ Efforts 2012

2 Apr

Some of the many pranks from the Google team this year.

http://google-au.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/google-street-roo-exploring-outback-one.html

http://analytics.blogspot.fr/2012/04/interplanetary-reporting-comes-to.html

http://www.howtogomo.com/goro/d/

https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/multitask.html