July 2010
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How we ran an iPad competition for Vitamin Water
We were approached by We Are Social to run a competition for one of their clients, Vitamin Water. With the release of a new flavour of their water called “i-focus” the competition was to win an iPad.
Team Fublo decided to run this competition on Friedmylittlebrain as it has the bigger of the three audiences and we felt our readers would be after an iPad. To enter the competition...
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Willetts warns graduates: if you can't get a job...
Universities minister says students leaving higher education should rethink what they consider to be a graduate career
“The other point I’d make is that we have some odd definitions of what constitutes a graduate job. The most vivid example of that is that setting up your own business does not constitute a graduate job.”
Read the full article on The Guardian
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Our love for WP (3)
Wordpress, the love of many a designer and developer?
Here at Team Fublo we’ve got a slight obsession with the platform and with the release of 3.0 a few weeks back, we’re continuing to use it (with theme frameworks) on a lot of our current and forthcoming projects.
Recently we’ve been:
Utilising the custom menus system
Creating custom widgets and templates
Figuring out...
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“By implying that it thinks content should be free for moral reasons, the...”
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David Mitchell for the Observer (note also our shared disgust at that abhorrent Guardian article which welcomed Times readers to their supposed electronic utopia).
via Sarah Chapman: Mitchell on Murdoch
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June 2010
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“open rate 7.3% higher than the industry average”
– An hour after sending and our latest newsletter is already above industry average - mailchimp says so, so it must be true! Sign up now - July’s newsletter isn’t far away.
You’ll get the latest:
Updates on what we’ve been up to at Team Fublo.
Reading - links on what’s going...
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May 2010
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WatchAn interview with James while he was teaching on the Tech 2 course at Hyper Island.
The full interview is nearly an hour long - but you can read a breakdown with highlights and quotes on Hyper Report (beta). Our favourite quote:
a developer needs to be superman and turn water into wine
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Friedmylittlebrain.com named No.1 UK Dance/DJ Blog...
Friedmylittlebrain.com was also announced as the No.1 spot in the “Top 10 Dance/DJ blogs in the UK” today. More love from Cision.com.
We’re off to celebrate at lunch time and if you’re down at East Village later, come say hello and have a drink with us!
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UK Street Art named No.1 UK Urban Lifestyle Blog...
Cision.com has named UK Street Art as the No. 1 in the “Top 10 UK Urban Lifestyle Blogs” list which was announced today. We’ve also been announced as the No. 1 spot in the “Top 10 UK Art Blogs”
These accolades come from Cision’s ‘blog ranking methodology’ which you can read all about here
We’re very happy to have been named as No. 1 in both...
April 2010
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Do you really like it?
So, Facebook have decided to ditch “Connect” and go with “Open Graph”
Facebook Connect, the company’s tool for bringing your social graph to third-party websites, will soon be no more.
During a press conference today at Facebook’s F8 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Facebook Connect brand would be eliminated as part of the...
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UK Street Art gets some blog love from Vitamin...
UK Street Art was featured in some blog love last week on the Daily Vitamin site.
“x x x this week our love goes out to @ukstreetart top top blog <3 http://gvwurl.com/street x x x”
was the original tweet and of course we returned the favour by the RT.
…and from the post:
another friday, another fantastic blog!
this week it’s the popular uk street art...
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March 2010
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How super is Su.pr?
We recently updated the url shortner on Friedmylittlebrain.com to Su.pr. The service, Su.pr is the shortner service from Stumble Upon.
Why? You may ask…
Well, it was recommended by a friend who happens to know a lot about “Social Media” and she suggested it would be a way of generating more traffic and clicks.
We’re yet to see a huge difference, just 114 page views from...
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13 must-have add-ons for bloggers using Firefox
If you’re a blogger, like us, and you use Firefox as your main browser then you’re in luck. 1stwebdesigner has put together a great list of essential add-ons to streamline and speed up your blogging
Read the full article
Note: I actually use Chrome
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NIKE78
NIKE78 is an exciting new project created by Paul Jenkins and inspired by NIKE. Creatives involved will receive a brand new pair of NIKE shoes and will be asked to use sport as inspiration to challenge their function. The project will be documented on this website and after the shoes have been collected, an exhibition showcase is planned for the London Design Festival 2010. This is a unique...
On the lookout for office space
Team Fublo is on the lookout for office space somewhere central in London. We’re interested in shared studios, desk space or a private studio. Preferably in the E1, E2 area but open to options…
…If you know of anywhere or have that space, drop us a line!
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New project : "Who Is Banksy?"
“Who Is Banksy?” is the latest project from fublo.net. A resource for all information relating to Banksy on the web. We built it in an afternoon, released it on the world and blogged about how we did it so that others can do the same with any subject of their choosing. It’s racing up Google’s rankings and attracting attention which is proof that the concept and tumblr...
February 2010
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Music bloggers, know your DCMA 'rights'
After Google kicked a bunch of music blogs off its blogger service, The Register reports that the DCMA is to blame. Commenting that…
“It would seem the music bloggers aren’t versed in the ways of DMCA claims and counterclaims.”
Hot tip - get to know about DCMA counterclaims and read up about Cease & Desist notices and what you should do about them on the Chilling...
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“Rather than hundreds of MP3 blogs posting to a tiny audience on the same subject...”
– From Blogs bite back, on Media Guardian… We hope Fried My Little Brain is in that “few dozen” prospering blogs!
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“Mark Jenkins is the definition of a man with his finger in many pies! London...”
– Excellent interview with Mark about Fat Seagull and Trashed posted on Rise Worldwide blog.
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January 2010
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“a blog we have read and respected for a long time and one that we are very happy...”
– Knob Jockeys on Fried.
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December 2009
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UK Street Art takes No.1 spot in Cision's Top UK...
UKSA made Cision’s list of the Top 10 Art Blogs in the UK, another great accolade!
“Combining visitor, search and social metrics with in-house expertise, Cision identifies the most read, most discussed and most influential names in the UK art blogosphere.”
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Creative Tourist ranks UK Street Art in the top 25
For the second month running, Creative Tourist has placed UK Street Art in the top 25 arts & culture Blogs in the UK. Congrats also to friend-of-Fublo Art Sleuth who’s jumped up the CT list this month.
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“Fried My Little Brain is on a trajectory to become the goto blog for UK...”
– New music blog Loudat reviews Fried My Little Brain
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New sponsor for Fat Seagull
Yesterday Mark was pleased to announce the first sponsor of Fat Seagull is Roktic. They will be helping us out with some cash which we’ll be spending on our hosting, plus contributing some of their great merchandise for cool Fat Seagull give aways. The first one launched yesterday with £100 of gear to give away and has already had 100 entrants in its first half day which is great news.
We...
Fublo blog is back
We’re starting up the Fublo blog again - this time on tumblr.com. News from the Fried My Little Brain, UK Street Art and Fat Seagull blogs here. Plus bits about ourselves (Mark & James) and also our collective crew, news from the blogosphere and social media, all sorts of things… phew - that’s a mission statement!
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