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03.30.07What GTalk status messages are really forIt's not for letting people know you've popped out for lunch, or are in a meeting. No. It's for reliving David Bowie in frightwig and tights, as evidenced by this little interlude this morning. No conversation required - you don't need to talk and you can get on with other things quite happily. Just let your status do the talking. Because it's all about status. anna's new status message - you remind me of the babe Meg's new status message - what babe? anna's new status message - the babe with the power Meg's new status message - what power? anna's ...
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03.27.07Twit by name…Since I last wrote about Twitter and usage classifications, it was showcased at SXSW and that's caused an explosion in a) users b) usage c) media coverage d) site problems and e) inevitable navel-gazing. To add to the latter, I've also observed the emergence of a bunch of new services which feed the Twitter beast - in much the same way that the last 18 months or so have seen a whole host of services and applications which feed the MySpace beast. Two thoughts about this: 1. It's an interesting business model: being reliant on the success of someone else's business. I've heard people say that it hasn't ...
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03.16.07Funny-Ha-Ha, not Funny-PeculiarIn 1989, I made a birthday card for the second red nose day, and ran around collecting signatures and money for it, with visions of being able to present the card live on air - you know, like they do with those big charity cheques. (In this archive photo, above, you can see me aged 15 - I think Red Nose Day was actually on my birthday that year, which is why the birthday card seemed appropriate), my friend Melissa holding the card, and my sister Anna (who would have been 12), raising money by being sponsored to wear her ...
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03.12.07Future of Web Copyright?Now, I don't mean to whinge, really I don't, but I recently got a broadcast list mail from those nice people at FoWA, thanking me (and everyone else) for attending the recent conference in London. At the bottom of the mail was a little montage of pictures of the event, which I've screengrabbed and reproduced below: I couldn't help but notice that the montage contained an image which I took - the one in the bottom right hand corner, which can also be seen on my Flickr stream, here: When I uploaded the image to Flickr, I tagged it (as requested) with the ...
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02.21.07On Attending the Future of Web Apps Conference, day two(A work in progress) Lunchtime, and I'm just taking a moment to reflect on the morning's presentations before downloading (or should that be uploading?) my notes and thoughts on what was said. Actually, I'm listening to ear-shattering volume AIR in an attempt to block out the drone of multiple mobile conversations - the perils of locking geeks up in a room for a while is that when they get out they need to connect with technology again - I imagine that it's about a billion times worse at 3GSM, only with suits, to boot). In brief: Khoi Vinh, the Design Director for ...
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02.20.07On attending the Future of Web Apps conference - day oneSo I'm at FoWA London 2007, and so far...meh. Bearing in mind that there's still a chunk of the afternoon and the whole of tomorrow to go, I'm willing to give the Carson folks a bit of a chance to pull it back, but so far, I'm a bit underwhelmed. So first up, the positives: there are more women here this year. Last year there were about 600 men typing away furiously on laptops to the sound of millions of sperm dying from radiation exposure. This year, more women...and less macs. I don't know if these things are related. Probably not. Also, ...
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02.04.07Hearts, flowers, cupid etc etc yadda yadda yaddaGiven that we're now definitely well into February, I thought it was about time we brought back the biliousness of the season, in the form of the infamous Be My Anti Valentine site, now back for 2007. Huzzah. Still full of snarky, sarky cards to send to your loved ones and people you know, it's much the same as the site you may remember from years gone by, only this year (hopefully) with added stability. Massive kudos and a cast-iron promise of precisely NO pukesome pastel toys holding heart-shaped signs saying "wuv oo!" in Comic Sans to the lovely geek ...
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01.25.07Musings on TwitterSo, I've been using (?) Twitter for a few months now, and I've noticed a few things about it which I thought might be worth trying to crystalise into a post. Let's see how this goes. 1. Different people use it in very different ways The Twittering classes are: The Briefers, who provide only bulletins relating to current location or status. Example: Waiting for the bus. Cold. The Detailers, who use Twitter to give an insight into what they're thinking, eating, listening to, looking forward to, planning, and so on. Example: Wondering what to have for tea tonight. Pasta, maybe. The Kitchen Sinkers, who ...
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01.12.07Creating a charter for effective Social Media activity within a large organisationFor the past year or so, I've been the consumer experience lead for Social Media initiatives and projects within my company, and one of the things I've been trying to do is to influence and change not just what we do, but the way that we do it - because, as Fun Boy Three (and Bananarama) once said, that's what gets results. I strongly believe that the way we behave, think, act has an enormous impact on what we do, and changing that can be the first step towards revolutionising what a company does. Even just resolving to think in a ...
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01.10.07And speaking of namesI'm on several mailing lists at my company which give details of server maintenance outages and the like. And most of the time, they fly through the inbox and I can happily ignore them. However, yesterday there were a flurry of mails with priceless subject lines: I loved the idea that they needed to take all the little green Irish fellas out of service to give them new green trousers, or because the pot of gold was broken or something. However, I'm sure that our colleagues in the US just thought about it as a server name - because that's what happens, isn't ...
