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O2 December Sessions

Nov 28 2011
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Music

We’ve teamed up with the O2 to look for music lovers and avid concert-goers in the UK. A free live music festival, December Sessions, is coming to the O2 just in time for Christmas, and we’re giving away exclusive VIP access on Saturday 3rd December.

Live music from 100 up-and-coming bands over 20 days will kick off with VIP access on December 3rd. Register here for your chance to win 2 VIP tickets to the first session.

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The sessions run from 3rd – 21st December and the hashtag for the event is #DecSessionsTheO2.

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Asia – Who's Top for Education Online

Nov 23 2011
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PeerGroups

This week we’re taking a look at how Asian Universities are doing in the online stakes. We looked at the Top Universities in Asia according to the QS University Rankings and created our own group of the 50 most authoritative online. We’re interested in how their online presence compares to their overall ranking: none of the Universities that hold a Top 10 position in the QS Ranking come out as strong in our ranking.

http://api.peerindex.net/1/embed/group?profile=lsinnerton&group=universities_in_asia

Next in the series we’ll be moving closer to home and seeing how European Universities rank.

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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

Nov 22 2011
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PeerPerks

We have teamed up with Panorama to offer people exclusive IMAX tickets in Glasgow and Manchester. If you want to see breathtaking preview scenes of Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg and Paula Patton before the film is released click here.

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Do you pay attention to your MP online?

Nov 16 2011
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Social Media

Co-founder of tweetminster @AlbertoNardelli has gatheredthe names of British MPs on twitter to see who are the most engaging, listened to, and authoritative online. The first Green Party MP @carolinelucas and the Minister of State for Housing & Local Government @grantshapps made it into the top 10.

http://api.peerindex.net/1/embed/group?profile=alberto-nardelli&group=uk_mps

Alberto Nardelli talked to us about why he wanted to create a list of MPs and how social media is important in politics: “When we launched Tweetminster there were four MPs on Twitter. There are now over 305. It’s great to see so many MPs now using Twitter all in very different ways – to engage with people, to comment on news, to report from the HoC and to debate. Ultimately, I believe this contributes to making politics more open and social. Platforms like Peerindex allow us to see how MPs are using Twitter and how active they are, in a glance, and this is very useful”.

 

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Do you care about having a sustainable planet?

Nov 09 2011
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Influence, Sustainability

Sustainability Now and tCn (the Construction network) have published a list of the most influential Sustainability Tweeters. Check out their 400-strong group below, with @james_bg and @ediewaste making it into the top 10.

http://api.peerindex.net/1/embed/group?profile=tcntweets&group=tcnsusnow

Martin Brown has written a piece about this list and how Twitter is helping to keep the building industry informed about sustainability.

Sustainability Now’s Social Media Event is live now, with a chat room, social media lounge, sessions and networking opportunities throughout today and tomorrow. The hashtag for the event is #tCnSusNow.

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Latin America – Who's Top for Education Online?

Nov 08 2011
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Influence, Most Online Influential Universities

Education in Latin America has been in the spotlight recently, with more Universities from this area scoring highly in this year’s University ranks. The Economist also published a story that evaluated the performance of Latin American Universities. So, the second region we are focussing on in our Education Online series is Latin America, with one Chilean and two Brazilian universities making it into the top 3.

http://api.peerindex.net/1/embed/group?profile=lsinnerton&group=latin_american_universities

Next in the series, we’ll be looking at Asia so keep your eyes peeled to find out which University out there has the strongest online presence.

Back Up and Running – PeerIndex Outage Sunday 6th November

Nov 07 2011
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Oops

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As we mentioned yesterday, there was a service outage on the PeerIndex site yesterday.

The outage was due to an obscure divide by zero bug in the linux operating system on one of our servers. In plain English, the server crashed. The patch to fix the bug has been deployed. 

Everything is back to normal now and the outage didn’t affect your data, but if you do notice anything odd at all, please let us know.

 

PeerIndex Service Outage – November 6, 2011

Nov 06 2011
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Contact, Oops
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Just a note – we are aware of a service outage on our site and are addressing it as we speak.  Please communicate with us at info@peerindex.com if there are any concerns.

A Packed Weekend – Mozilla Festival and Fireworks!

Nov 04 2011
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Events

We know that some of you will be looking forward to Catherine wheels, sparklers and burning a rusty old suit in the shape of Mr Fawkes this Saturday. Well, we can’t wait for it either.

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But, remember, remember… the Mozilla Festival, kicking off this evening!

We’ll be heading along over the weekend, with our CTO Sanford Dickert giving a talk on Sunday afternoon. Our CEO Azeem Azhar will also be there on Sunday. And the rest of us will be floating around getting involved in the other events from tonight onwards.

Do come and say hey to Sanford, Azeem, or any of us who are at the event.

#MozFest is the hashtag for thoughts and talking about what’s going on during the event.

And if you aren’t already attending but want to come along register here.

 

Bringing Twitter onto the Pitch

Nov 02 2011
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Football, Influence

Mexican football team Jaguares de Chiapas have grabbed the limelight with an innovative new way of promoting their twitter presence.

We had a quick look at how some of the players rank, with the club itself still beating any of its players to the top spot:

http://api.peerindex.net/1/embed/group?profile=lsinnerton&group=jaguares

It’ll be interesting to see how the commentators react to this, and whether this catches on with other clubs. Valencia made a similar move back in September when they put the club’s twitter handle on players’ shirts instead of a sponsor. So which team will be next to bring twitter onto the field?