Just Another Social Profile Really

According to reports Ashton Kutcher, the most followed individual on Twitter, is thinking of closing his account. His reason? He fears that a planned Twitter TV show could encourage civilians to stalk celebrities like Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore. Whilst I obviously don’t condone stalking in any way, I have to say that this [...]

About a month ago I wrote about a rather disappointing experience I had with Gaucho, the chain of Argentinian steak restaurants. To summarise what happened, I had a lovely meal there but when my jacket was brought back from the cloak-room, my iPod was missing and despite repeated telephone discussions with the manager of the [...]

Yes, yes, yes, another post about Twitter, I know. This one has a point at least. Well. Kind of. A few weeks back I spoke at the 2nd of the excellent Media140 conferences, this one looking at the way that the real-time web is impacting brands. The guys at Media140 recorded my session on why [...]

Well, what a week that was. Trafigura, Jan Moir and Ian & TFL: three separate incidents, all unrelated other than the fact that, to greater or lesser degrees, mobiles & Twitter played a large part in their being resolved/gaining mainstream coverage. In the case of Trafigura, Carter-Ruck almost certainly caved more quickly than they would [...]

I’ve been closely monitoring the news around the swine flu issue (as well as religiously cleaning my hands after getting off of the moving hamster cages that pass for trains on most week nights) but not because I’m a paranoid hypochondriac who is convinced that this is going to be an armageddon like plague that [...]

TechCrunch have reported on an announcement by Facebook that it will be making a series of changes to the way in which it presents & mixes content, including an increase in the speed at which the status updates are, well, updated. As TechCrunch report: Facebook is…speeding up the updates that populate the news feeds on [...]

So, the echo chamber that is the world of social media marketing has been ringing today with the ‘news’ that sweets brand Skittles has completely turned its corporate site over to Twitter, flickr & wikipedia amongst others. As New Media Age explains: Skittles has given its US brand site over to social media and incorporated [...]

Whilst I might have been moaning about the internet recently, it doesn’t take much to remind me why I really love it so much. Take the way I discovered and got hold of this track, Mighty Long Way by Tye Tribbett. I originally heard it on a podcast mix that Blacktronica did for Lovebox a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]