Just Another Social Profile Really

I just saw an interesting message on Facebook asking me if I wanted to help translate it so that people around the world can understand it better. The language they wanted help with? English (UK).
I can’t say that I’ve noticed that many instances of Facebook using annoying American spellings for things (and to my American […]

Oh dear. Plurk is copying Twitter in ways it probably wouldn’t really want to. Updates taking longer than expected? Why does that seem familiar?
I wasn’t around Twitter in its earliest days but I’m pretty sure that scalability wasn’t a problem when it was as young as Plurk is now: maybe Plurk’s just growing faste than […]

Whilst waiting for Twitter to come back online this morning, I ended up flicking through their official blog. As well as the news about their acquisition of Summize, now Twitter Search, was a note about the fact that they had moved into new offices.
Now is it just me or do these photos all feel a […]

You know you’re in trouble when your own community sets up a fund to help you through the teething problems that come with exponential growth. But at the same time, surely the fact that your community is willing to stump up cash to keep a free service free, is a sign that you have an […]

This recent cartoon from Hugh deserves a post but really needs no other explanation. I think it might make a nice image for Jane’s recent comments on Twitter’s issues of late.

I’ve wanted to be a journalist ever since, whilst studying politics, I realised that most politicians never achieved anything and that those who hung on to their morals & beliefs also tended to be the ones who ended up sticking most tightly to the backbenches.
However I was never prepared to do my time reporting on […]

As I mentioned the other day, this weekend saw me give Twitter another try and so far I’ve been liking it. In many ways this has been because this second attempt to get the most well-known micro-blogging platform has coincided with the geek-fest that is the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, which now has a […]