Author: Marc
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Survivors banned from Facebook
Last night saw the first episode of the popular reality series Survivor South Africa start in South Africa. In what I think is a bit of a bizare twist, according to this article, M-Net & the producers of the Survivor South Africa show, banned all the contestants from acessing Facebook, or blogs until they have finished with thier part in the show. Surely M-Net could have used the “Facebook phenomenon” and used it to thier advantage. Think a Facebook app (ugghh) that would allow people to interact with the people who have been voted off, or allow them to ask questions in a group, with out having to spoil the show.
Instead, M-Net encourage the contestants to interact via their own social networking platform, called MySurvivor, that has been built round the show. The maths doesn’t make sense, almost 220,000 people in the SA network versus the couple of hundred maybe that will sign up on the M-Net social networking site.
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Toyota Auris Blog
After sharing my Toyota Auris media launch experiences here a couple of days ago, I finally got round to posting my blog post for the Auris blog. If you would like to read it you can do so here
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Google Maps gets easier
Before if you wanted to add a google map to a website or a blog, you needed to have a little programming knowledge in Javascript and had to apply for an API key to get it to work.
Now Google maps has made it easier to add a map to a website or blog. This could be really beneficial for business owners, invites to events, or showing some pics of your holiday.
To embed your own map into your website or blog do the following.
1. Go to Google Maps
2. Login into your google account. (They free :))
3. Click on My Maps
4. Find your point on the map you want to share.
5. Click on”Link to this page”, and copy and paste the code that is given to you.As an example, I have created a map for the venue of the Durbs 27Dinner, Ciao Itallia.