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Month: February 2009

  • Feedly

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I started using feedly which is a great tool for managing rss feeds and content into an easy to view form. Connecting with google reader, friendfeed and a number of other surfaces it provides you with three principle displays for viewing the content you have selected to have aggregated. The first…

  • Friendfeed has a great future

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI really like Friendfeed and what it’s becoming. What I love is how easy it is to follow many people and converse with them about everything they share. It’s the future of web sharing but it may take several months for people to move towards it. There are a number of things…

  • I know which twitter users come here.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I installed twitter remote on this blog. It’s a quick and fun way to see which of you twitter friends have been to my site recently. This is particularly interesting now that more and more people have their own twitter account. Here’s a quick preview of what it looks like.

  • Twitter friendships and why I took some time off

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you first arrive on twitter it’s lots of strangers sending messages speaking about what they’re doing and it quickly becomes overwhelming, especially with the vast number of people. For the first few months many people send no more than a hundred posts a day as they get used to the twitter…

  • The Geekiness of My Lifestyle

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have fun with technology which means that I spend a lot of time online as a result of which I enjoy creating online friendships. The advantage of that is that wherever I am in the world I have people to chat with, or so I thought. I am taking a…

  • A Proposed Social Media Deontology.

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesArticle 1. I shall take interest in the projects of others before my own. In this capacity, I will pay attention to what others are doing and see how I may help them bring those projects to fruition Article 2. I shall Participate as actively as possible in as many discussions as…

  • One Hundred Million Geo-Tagged Images

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne Hundred Million is the number of photographs geotagged on flickr. That’s an impressive number. There’s an article about the news here but I want to explore the fun side of things. Whenever I take photographs with my mobile phone they’re geo tagged so where ever I am in the world…

  • Ten Days without Twitter

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a video of me at the only Twestival event I have ever been to and I lay into the event for the fashionistas that attended the event. I was so disappointed with the event as a whole that I have lost my passion for going to social media events, especially…

  • Google Latitude

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteGoogle latitude is an interesting app available at least on Nokia phones that allows you to see where your friends are according to their mobile phone. At the moment it’s limited just to your gmail friends but expand to include more. What makes this application interesting in the near future is…

  • Remember that first tweetup?

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere we have @sizemore speaking about why he organised the first London tweetup. I will upload some of the other interviews soon but I’m just checking the player embedding first This text will be replaced