I'm going to shank you, I mean poke you?

Unsurprisingly Facebooks ’shank’ option, which was part of SuperPoke!, has been removed.

Again unsurprisingly, the feature had attracted numerous complaints from anti-knife crime campaigners. All in all, SuperPoke! is fairly harmless and fun, but you have to stop and ask who authorised that, and what were they thinking would happen? Especially considering that knife crime is one of the fastest growing crimes in the UK, in the youth sector. So far this year alone 28 teenagers have died.

TripWolf - The Social Travel Guide

TripWolf was recommended to me by a friend, and from what they said I was pretty excited to check it out. Basically it's a social media travel guide. It has all the regular stuff you'd expect - restaurant reviews, information on local attractions and more or less everything else I generally expect from a travel site. The difference is that everything is user added.

Essentially TripWolf provide a template and you upload the rest. Sure it doesn't sound particularly ingenious but by adding to the existing content, you're helping to build a wiki travel encyclopedia.

The biggest plus for me, however, was that you can integrate with Facebook, using the same login details and importing your existing Facebook details to create your Tripwolf profile - super simple!

Snackr

I just StumbledUpon something pretty sweet - Snackr is a new adobe air app that takes RSS feeds and streams them across your desktop. For those of you who just don't have the time to log into iGoogle this is a life saver!

The Next Generation of Social Marketing

I'm not entirely sure if Social Marketing (in its digital form) has been around long enough to get a 'next generation', but either way this is a must see slideshow from Nedra Weinreich's Social Marketing University.

Correction
Nedra was kind enough to contact me to clarify that Social Marketing has been around for about 30 years. It strictly refers to the use of marketing to address health and social issues. This presentation is about incorporating social media marketing into social marketing programs.

cheers Nedra - Chrisatian

More Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett

Following on from my post this morning on the new BBC Olympic Idents, check out the downloadables available on BBC Sport. Again this has been produced by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett (of Gorillaz). All of this is based on the classical Chinese novel, "Journey to the West", in case you were unaware.

As with my earlier post....... this is brilliant!