Even though I’ve been known to use the phrase “Web 2.0″ from time to time, I’ve never really liked the idea very much. It’s useful shorthand for when you’re talking to anyone whose knowledge about the internet is defined largely by current trends and ‘hypes’, but really, what’s ever been new about the idea of [...]
Here in the UK, Twitter has yet to seriously catch on despite my best attempts to evangelise it. A lot of businesses and organisations are attempting to make use of it, but it remains a tool for the British early adopter. In the US, however, marketing and communications departments of large companies are becoming increasingly [...]
Earlier this afternoon, as I was passing Angel station on a bus, I posted to Twitter. I’ve subsequently discovered my ‘tweet’ turning up at this site - Tweets on the bus.
The concept is simple - it collects Twitter posts containing the term “on the bus”, and presents them all on one web page. It’s got [...]
Yesterday I went along to the Wealth of Networks conference at Imperial College. I was only able to attend the morning sessions, but it was a valuable chance to hear the thoughts of various individuals with diverse backgrounds but a shared understanding of the power of networks (in the broader sense of the word).
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After my previous post on not “getting” Twitter, I’ve spent a fair bit of time getting to grips with it and have been sucked in to a considerable extent.
I’ll post more about my road-to-Damascus Twitter conversion in the next couple of days, but in the meantime I’d refer any interested readers to this video, “Twitter [...]
Further to my previous post about not ‘getting’ Twitter, here’s an article from the OpenObjects blog with a few examples of how this sort of thing (micro-blogging? micro-updates?) can be useful:
http://openobjects.blogspot.com/2008/07/microupdates-and-you-aka-twits-in.html
I especially like the Firefox anecdote. I’m starting to get the idea that it’s the ancillary geek-built tools that constitute the real value of these [...]
These days a lot of people like me are addicted to Twitter. Developers across the globe are coming up with interesting tools to visualise, aggregate and automatically syndicate Twitter content (or “tweets”). At conferences and speeches, audiences keep up a constant back-channel of chat using Twitter. I sporadically post to Twitter. But I don’t feel [...]