Category: social media
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Headlines and muted news sources
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have started to mute news sources that provide us with headlines that tell us how to feel rather than give us information about the content of the article. On Facebook the alternative would be to unfollow people I have met in person, friends. I prefer to mute news sources…
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Google Plus Is A Good Product Which People Should Take The Time To Understand.
Reading Time: < 1 minute The American blogosphere is corrupt. Google Plus is an excellent product. It provides it’s users with an elegant amount of control as to who sees which post and whom it can be shared with. It provides groups and communities. It allows you to create your own circles. In Essence Google…
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Django Django – WOR
Reading Time: < 1 minute from Jim Demuth on Vimeo. A well told, well edited short documentary about the people who drive the wall of death.
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The 2013 CERN Tweetup
Reading Time: < 1 minute On the 27th of September CERN invited twelve Social media users to a tweetup. I was among those twelve. We had the rare opportunity to go down and see the tunnels where the LHC carries out it’s experiements. We met with World Wide Web pioneers and we got to listen…
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New unfollow out
Reading Time: < 1 minute Twitter is a dynamic and social conversation tool which ignores borders, timezones and continents. The more time you give to the website the more you get out of it. As more and more people join the site so following passive people makes less and less sense. Yesterday I downloaded justunfollow…
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The new user interface every website now uses.
Reading Time: < 1 minute We have more processing power available so what do we do? we find web services like Flickr creating UI that don’t play nicely with one year old macbook airs and other machines due to the processing power required. We see this with flickr and a few other web services.
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The Demise of Google reader
Reading Time: 2 minutes Google Reader was a great tool because it made gathering and sharing content from specific sources intuitive and easy. It provided us with one place from which to do most things. Today Google have announced that they are pulling the plug on Google reader. In my eyes Google reader had become…