Team Fublo is Mark Jenkins and James Cooke... We are London based freelancers working in digital.
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An 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
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!
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 of these spots, alongside some of our favourites including Better Never Than Late, Urban Nerds, Art of The State and Too Much Posse! Congratulations to everyone who made the list!
Keep your eyes on Fublo.net for some more news this year as we bring you a couple more of our projects…
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 launch of Open Graph. Instead, the company is standardizing the interactions between Facebook and third parties via Facebook’s new Open Graph protocol and the OAuth 2.0 standard.
We’ve just installed a WP plugin on UK Street Art, Fat Seagull and Friedmylittlebrain as a test to see if people “liking” things will increase the traffic coming through to the sites.
Having seen one click on a post to share it back into Facebook, we’ve got high hopes that this will increase traffic, not massively, but will be interesting to see how many more page views this generates. What do you think?
Also, here’s an interesting piece on “How Facebook won the web”
Twitter mining of the first UK election leaders debate from 15th April. Just like our Arsenal / Barcelona graph, we put this together with data from the Twitter API compiled in the morning after the debates. We chose to focus the response to each of the leaders and so searched for tweets including their names in full.
Full PDF is available (direct Dropbox link)
There is clearly little or no correlation between the questions in the debate and the volume of tweets for each leader. Twitterers seem less engaged by the politics and more interested with responding to jokes, banter and discussion about the leaders. As a result spikes have been generated by the responses and retweets caused by these humerous and sometimes critcal observations.
James Garner on Computer Week suggested that twitter is “dominated by the largely liberal left”. This appears to be supported by Nick Clegg being mentioned 39% of the time and that’s without many twitter jokes made at his expense.
Let us know what you think?
How twitter responded to the Arsenal / Barcelona Champions League quarter final first round match. We’ve put this together with data from the twitter API compiled on the night after the game and BBC Sport text commentary.
Full PDF is available (dropbox direct link).
We’ll be looking at more projects in the future so if you want to know more about how we did this or have some twitter ideas you’d like us to look at, drop us a line… email / tumble / tweet (Mark or James).
Things we thought were interesting about this graph:
What can you see in there? Let us know?
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 blog, ukstreetart.co.uk. featuring all the latest news, galleries, events and happenings in uk street art culture.
featuring work by artists such as banksy and sick boy, it’s a good read if you are looking for news on your fave street artists. they also have feature exclusiveinterviews with some of the biggest names right now, including blek le rat.
they also feature other assorted bits from street art culture from around the globe, so go have a look! some of our favourite posts include:
the art of asbestos
ronzo’s pity of london mini documentaries
Thanks guys!
Thanks to all of you for the follows and reblogs and loves… we’re now rolling with fifty followers - big love to all! :D
Photo is an old painted over work by matski_98.
“Who is Banksy?” also:
Here’s our recap of how we built WIB on tumblr and the Banksy content on UK Street Art that started it all.
This Heineken campaign from the end of last year is interesting for two reasons:
Is the goal now for all campaigns to attempt to be newsworthy to gain maximum exposure?
Previously we wrote that we were looking for a location for a Team Fublo office out East London way… The search is over - we signed last week and moved in this week. A shared space in the office of renowned designers Fredrikson Stallard - the most uber creative space we’ve seen in a long time!
We’re looking forward to a fantastic, creative and productive summer here!
