Google Buzz, what’s all the fuss about?
Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps, Technology, Twitter
Fresh on the heels of the release of Google Wave, billed as a panacea to the problems of communicating by email but in reality just a neat little collaborative tool, Google have released their next product, Buzz. As is becoming customary with Google, the hyperbole was again laid on with a trowel, this time they [...]
Twitter plans to finally put squeeze on clients
Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps, Technology, Twitter
It’s always been a bit of a puzzler for me quite why twitter let their client ecosystem blossom so enthusiastically, I blogged about it before a couple of times speculating here about whether they were finally making the move against clients with their lists feature.
Alex Payne, an engineer at Twitter and head of the API [...]
Twitter Lists, Twitter’s first strike against clients?
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps, Twitter
Interesting developments from Twitter with the recent announcement of the release of their Lists beta feature. For those of you with enough of a life not to care about these things, lists is a feature currently only available to “selected users” that allows you to select lists of your favourite Tweeters. So what form will [...]
Future of Web Apps highlights (#fowa)
Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps
It’s official, Carsonified’s excellent Future of Web Apps conference in London chewed me up, spat me out and landed me back in sunny Yorkshire. I’ve had a ball over the three days catching up with some friends and generally talking tech stuff with tech people. Really the only apt way to describe it would be [...]
Five Twitter tools that you’d be mad not to use
Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps
Obviously Twitter being news isnt really news any more, strangely though many people I know who have embraced digitality with admirable gusto still dont really get it. Essentially what happens is that Josh or Jade Public sign up to their Twitter account, look up @wossy etc and then wander off bored. Try as I might [...]