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  • Obama’s inauguration as seen in Geneva, Switzerland

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis video filmed with the HDR-SR12 in Geneva Switzerland at La Reserve wine bar. The event was organised via facebook.

  • The Forbes Intern is not wrong about twitter in Europe

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSaw this post on techcrunch and the intern is not wrong. I left a comment on the blog. I also decided to leave that comment here. Get out of London, get out of Paris. Get to the provinces and the small towns. get into the french speaking, Lithuanian speaking, portuguese portions…

  • Zurich twitter dinner and the Inauguration in Geneva

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the moment I am planning on going to Zurich for the twitter dinner. It’s the first Zurich twitter event I go to and it will be interesting whether I need to speak swiss german or whether my English and French will help make conversation a little simpler. I don’t exchange…

  • Arte have a twitter channel for their programs

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few days ago I noticed that twitter was tweeting their programs as they were on in German and this looked like a good idea. I commented it was a shame that they didn’t have the same in French. Within a few days it’s there. This morning I saw Arte’s tweet…

  • Twitter’s broken yet again

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd in great style twitter is broken again and yet again they’ve found a new way in which for this to be evident. Today they’ve devided to block all ingoing tweets, no more posting for the next few hours I guess. They really should get a prize for this. No warning,…

  • To Maggie and Chris I dedicate my 600th Blog Post

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTo Maggie and Chris I dedicate this, my 600th blog post as you are now in Florida, engaged and planning the rest of your life together. We have exchanged hundreds of messages over the past year and it’s been fun. Now the dynamics have progressed and in so doing why not…

  • Falling for Friendfeed

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFriendfeed is an interesting service I never wanted to use because I prefered Jaiku but recently that feeling has changed. As I saw Scoble speak more and more about how good friendfeed was I began to think that maybe it’s time to try the service, to see what it’s about and…

  • Twitter and it’s fourty minute delay

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday twitter has reminded me of why I dislike how it’s managed. With the big Mac World event and CES twitter is down, for the count. The problem is that these crafty people have decided that rather than take the site down completely they would let it lag. As a consequence…

  • TwitterFriends

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwitterfriends is another of those interesting tools to see who you converse with most on twitter. You can see who replies to you most, who you reply to most, the sphere of influence and more. As a result it’s a good tool with which to establish who are the interesting people…

  • Tweetgrid – a tool to make sense of it.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday someone twittered about tweetgrid, a simple to use web interface that allows you to see, in real time what people are tweeting about. It filters as many key words to chose and dedicates one portion of the screen per word. If you select four words then you can watch as…