Category: Social Media

  • Will Google Friend Connect deliver the promise?

    I’m doing a little experiment on this site with Google Friend Connect, a new service in beta from Google that was announced in May. Some sites are receiving invitations to sign up; this site is one of those. According to…

  • Yes, we do predictions

    This evening, I’ll be in London’s Soho taking part in “Chinwag Live: Xmas Futures, Crystal Balls?”, the latest panel discussion session and social get-together organized by Chinwag, the network and community for digital media practitioners in the UK and beyond,…

  • Social media takeaways from Barcelona

    Barcelona in late November: a colder place than I expected it to be when I arrived last Wednesday, my first visit since 2006 to this Spanish city on the Mediterranean coast. The climate might have been cold but the buzz…

  • Contemporary suits Ferrero

    One of the people I encountered in Barcelona during this past week, where I chaired the New Media in Marketing and Communications Strategy conference (about which a post soon), was Guillaume du Gardier, pictured in a photo I took on…

  • Has a tipping point arrived for Twitter?

    A lot of people have being doing a lot of writing about Twitter during the past week. I’m not referring specifically to the awful events in Mumbai, India, where Twitter played a significant role in rapidly connecting online people with…