Governing the Twitterfolk: Shel Israel disappears up own asshole
I came across this post via Jeremiah Owyang’s (@jowyang) tweet, written by Shel Israel (@shelisrael), the man that co-authored “Naked Conversations” with Robert Scoble (@scobleizer). It seems that lots...
View ArticleGoverning the Twitterfolk: part 2
I’ve had some responses to yesterday’s post diving into the Twitter Village / Mayor discussion, some as comments on the post, some on Twitter and a reply from Shel Israel on his blog. Whilst I hope you...
View ArticleTwitter is becoming the new IM, and is this a bad thing?
I have noticed that a lot of people who start following me on Twitter also follow thousands of other people. I have to ask, how does Twitter remain useful if you are following such a high number of...
View ArticleNow I can use Dopplr like a pro – the importance of data on-ramps
Dopplr – great idea, lots of hype, beautiful website, just impossible for me to use. Why? I’ll tell you why. Who can be bothered to go updating another website? Not me, even with Dopplr’s slick, slick...
View ArticleTwitter barometer tells true cost of snow on London
Much has been said of the Federation of Small Business (FSB) estimate that the cost to the capital of freak snow shutting down business yesterday is running at £1bn a day. Investigation of their...
View ArticleAdding new features to Twitter with Notify.me
For me, Twitter does two things exactly the opposite way round to how I want them: @replies don’t trigger mail notifications, but they do have an RSS feed Direct messages don’t come over RSS, but they...
View ArticleImproving my Twitter @reply notifications with Yahoo! Pipes
Yesterday, I wrote about how to use Notfiy.me to get email notifications when people @reply to you on Twitter. I found this morning that the emails don’t show you who it was that replied to you, since...
View ArticleMeasuring the Gfail cost with Twitter
from http://williamkasel.com/2008/08/11/gmail-is-down/ You may recall that at the beginning of February, the UK had a shit load of snow, which pretty much took out the whole country on the 2nd, a...
View ArticleHow to build a DIY TwitPic (without any coding skillz)
Accounts you need A blog you can upload photos to from your phone (e.g. Blogger account on my Sony Ericsson K800i) Notify.me (or other email notification service) Gmail (or other email account with...
View ArticleTwitter’s new image upload feature & your rights
Yesterday, Twitter launched its own image uploading service, which competes directly with TwitPic, yFrog and the like. Whilst this is all very interesting for those guys, one of the important things to...
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