“Twitter: What’s all the fuss about?” presentation
Despite the promotion of Twitter to the ranks of “the great issues of our day”, and 24/7 coverage of new Twitter stories via TV, radio and newspapers, som...
Why all newspapers need a printed permalink
Have you ever been reading your daily morning commute newspaper and stumbled across a great article and thought “I must share that with my friend X”. Afte...
Stuff that’s been floating around the office: February 2009
It’s been a while since one of my posts that shares stuff that we’ve been looking at in the office. February was only 28 days, and boy, did it fly by! Her...
Skittles’ radical trust experiment with Twitter
This morning’s news that Skittles had launched a new site with a home page that’s basically a free-for-all Twitter search for the term “skittles” raises u...
How to disable IE6 in your Rails applications
Well, the uprising against IE 6 has begun, and not a moment too soon – IE 6 will be seven years old on August 27th. In fact, there’s even a service to say...
Google says hello on Twitter
Math weirdos amongst you will no doubt find this hi-lar-i-ous but I just found it remote and even a tiny bit chilling. Does the Google brand hav...
Tutorial for restful_authentication on Rails with Facebook Connect in 15 minutes
[Update (10 April 2010): we've edited the tutorial to bring it up to date with the current incarnations of Facebook Connect, Facebooker and Rails.]
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And here’s something else “they” will struggle to understand…
But why do people do it? I just don’t get it…
How many times have you heard people ask that question when they discover that you work in somethi...
Social media and the recession
Discovered this inspiring post via Twitter when I got in to work this morning. It makes a convincing argument for the role of community/social technologie...
Barriers to understanding Twitter
In the wake of a truly ghastly series of articles on Twitter, I am beginning to think that journalists will never write well on any thing that involves on...
Hello world: I am so alone here on the internet.
Lately, there has been lot of bizarre writing on how the hotspots of the internet, be that Facebook or Twitter or anything else, is bad for you. The Guar...
Thoughts on Seth Godin’s London session
Seth Godin’s stated aim yesterday at the London Session was to ‘give us a headache’ – well, what he *did* do was give us food for thought – if he cou...
The power of the masses: the pink chaddi campaign
For most modern Indian women, whether residents or non-residents of the country, February 14th this year was no ordinary day – and I’m not talkin...
London Twestival – the place for us seen to be seen
Tim, Stuart, Anjali, Oli and I had an Amazing time at the London Twestival yesterday. More than 100 cities all over the world hosted a Twestival to raise ...
Have I seen this before?
Before TV schedules disappear completely, there’s a breed of TV channels that have built their schedules around predictability.
Audiences know that at...
Twitter to start charging for commercial use
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is today reported to have announced the service may start charging for commercial use.
A novel use of Twitter
People use Twitter in so many ways. It’s a chat client, it’s a research tool, it’s a place for breaking news, it’s a way to let the world how you feel. I’...
The shift in marketing reality
Stuart pointed us to this neat video that uses graphic design to track the marked shift in marketing reality as it stands today. Take a look.