The web in 2010, an edited highlights package

Posted on 30. Dec, 2010 by in Advertising, Apps, Blog, News, Technology, Twitter

The past year has been a bit of a strange one in the tech world. In many ways this should have been the year that web technology “broke”, this was true in more than one sense with Facebook becoming the subject of a Hollywood blockbuster and Apple – generally thought of as invincibly slick – [...]

These views are my own

Posted on 26. Aug, 2010 by in Blog, Policy, Technology, Twitter

The title to this blog appears, in one way or another, in the bio section of an alarming amount of profiles across the social web. You may have hardly noticed it or possibly just taken it for granted but it’s very illustrative of the current state of play in the relationship between society, work and [...]

Information as art? It can't get more beautiful than this

Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by in Blog, cool, Technology, Twitter

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend Pilot Theatre’s Shift Happens conference in York which I also covered for the excellent CultureVulture blog. Now, I’m a pretty jaded conference goer and nowadays I like to think I’ve seen it all before. By the end of the conference’s second day I was [...]

Bradford’s first Social Media Surgery

Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by in Blog, cool, Technology, Twitter

Next week sees Bradford become the latest town in the UK hold a Social Media Surgery. The informal gathering of people interested in either teaching or learning how to use the web will be held at The Gumption Centre on July 20th.pecifically aimed at community or voluntary groups, Social Media Surgeries provide free advice to organisations or people on how to set up their own websites, blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages or podcasts. As well as anything else digital that they may be interested in investigating.

Social Media Training, some reflections

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by in Blog, cool, Policy, PR, Technology, Twitter

Last week I had the pleasure of delivering Totaal’s first large-scale Social Media Training session at Immage Studios in North East Lincolnshire. I have done many a one-on-one and small group session before but this one was a very different animal indeed. All in all there were twelve different attendees and representatives from two different [...]

Google Buzz, what’s all the fuss about?

Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by in Apps, Blog, 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 in Apps, Blog, 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 [...]

Is Twitter's star finally losing its twinkle?

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by in Blog, Technology, Twitter

It’s pretty fair to say that 2009 was “The Year of the Tweet”. There’s hardly a TV or Radio show or media personality that doesnt have a twitter account. In some cases there are several, with excellent spoofing of some ‘slebs too. In 2009 Twitter users went from five to thirty million users and between [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the single biggest threat to the Social Web

Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by in Blog, Technology, Twitter

Chances are that, if you know anybody involved in web development, design or usability, you will already be aware of this but I’m still amazed by how many aren’t. The biggest threat that the Social Web faces today isn’t authoritarian governments, lack of broadband availability or even piracy or hackers. This pervasive threat actually comes [...]

Twitter Lists, Twitter’s first strike against clients?

Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by in Apps, Blog, 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 [...]