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Twitter down, massive surge in users recently

Apr 15, 2008

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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

Apr 14, 2008

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richard

in London, mobile streaming, observation, social media, social networking, tech related, twitter

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

Apr 13, 2008

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richard

in social media, social networking

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

Apr 9, 2008

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richard

in fun, N95, observation, social media, traffic

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

Apr 6, 2008

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richard

in N95, seesmic, social media, social networking

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

Mar 31, 2008

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richard

in twitter

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

Mar 29, 2008

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richard

in seesmic, social media, social networking, travel

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…

A nice streaming surprise

Mar 27, 2008

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richard

in cameras, mobile streaming, social media, warzabidul

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe month is almost over and I’ve got fourty megabytes of streaming left to play with so I’m going to take advantage of that with my mobile phone. Since cities around Switzerland are covered by 3g you may find that I’m using Qik, Bambuser and Flixwagon to stream what I’m doing.…

I’m going to play with Flixwagon

Mar 26, 2008

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in social media, tech related, warzabidul

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBecause three or four, I’ve lost track of how many, live streaming applications for the phone aren’t enough i’ve started to play with flixwagon as well. So far it’s taking some getting used to but I hope that by tomorrow I’ll have learned more. It’s still an alpha and only works…

Quotably following Conversations on twitter

Mar 24, 2008

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in social media, social networking, twitter, warzabidul

Reading Time: < 1 minuteQuotably is a new service that allows you to easily follow people’s conversations by typing in their username. It displays the most recent conversations and shows the original post as well as the discussions that have occured as a result. It appears to work by taking the most recent @ reply…

Category: social media