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  • Seesmic video comments now available here

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor anyone that’s using seesmic it’s now possible for you to leave video comments on this blog. It should be an interesting way for people to participate.

  • I am 25,000 tweets old

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHalf the amount of tweets from a few months ago and far less than was my habit until now. This should be the normal twitter amount from now on. Don’t have as much free time for the social media anymore.

  • Mobile web apps and data transfer; Jaiku and twitter

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo I disagree that The Mobile Web is dead. For many of us it is just coming alive. Given the speed at which these devices are evolving and price dropping, I don’t think it’s worth people’s time to build sofware that optimizes the experience. Rather, they should use their expertise to…

  • Twitter down, massive surge in users recently

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor all those that thought twitter was finally a reliable service with a crappy api there is some sad news. Due to a massive increase in the number of users (according to a number of sources) twitter is once again providing a truly rubbish service. We’ll see how long they’re going…

  • Twitter as a way of life

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesTwitter is not a social network, rather it’s a way of life. The more you use Twitter the further it gets into your way of life. It allows you to follow current affairs, geek out about social media and keep in touch with friends that uses the social network. What’s more it’s…

  • Alertthingy

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI found yet another toy to play with in the form of alerthingy and one question springs to mind. Will this one be able to cope with my stream of actions. It’s an adobe air interface that allows you to keep track of friendfeed. I’ve only started playing with it but…

  • Videocamp, Paris

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few days ago I was in Paris to meet the Francofous and in the process I passed by La Cantine where they were holding a Videocamp. It’s like a barcamp but rather than talking about radio and podcastng people talked about peer to peer video sharing, citizen journalism and other…

  • Back from Paris

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m back from Paris and what you can expect from me this week are a post with two or three short video clips of people exposing what they discussed at Podcamp uk as well as two or three amusing videos from the Paris Seesmic meetup.

  • Twitter’s broken again

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYes, it’s happened yet again, twitter is broken again but in an entirely new way. At first it appeared that twitter had crashed in the old way, that is to say no server response. This time is different though. We’ve got the WML website version showing. The mobile version is now…

  • The Paris Seesmic meetup

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNext Saturday I’ll be catching the TGV to Paris to meet with a few friends from the Seesmic community. I had planned to do this for over two months but never got the opportunity due to various events. It’s fun to go to meet people who you know via online social…