Information as art? It can’t get more beautiful than this
Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology, Twitter, cool
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 [...]
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 [...]
Is Twitter’s star finally losing its twinkle?
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Why so quiet on Photosynth?
Posted on 16. Jun, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Photography, cool
Photosynth has been around as an idea for a couple of years now, anybody I know who has heard about it was massively impressed and excited about it. It’s the combination of a couple of fantastic bits of software, one spacially tags photos and the other recognises features in the photos and relates them with [...]