Category: Social Networks

  • Upcoming events

    I realized the other day that I’d been remiss in not updating the list of events in which I will be speaking or presenting in the next few months. Now done. In fact, I’ve re-structured the page on which I…

  • Shooting the breeze with Euan

    I met up with Euan Semple this afternoon for a coffee and a chat. We talked about things of common interest. What companies are doing with social media. How people are using social media. What’s happening in tech. And related…

  • The cost of Twitter productivity is a bargain

    During last summer, there was a spate of mainstream media commentary that social networks like Facebook serve little or no purpose from a business point of view. Much reporting about companies banning Facebook in the workplace. We were even treated…

  • Risks of pushing a terms of use envelope

    Quite a major kerfuffle has developed in the past 24 hours over Facebook booting Robert Scoble out of the social network. Facebook sent him an email that accused him of running an automated script which is in violation of Facebook’s…

  • Making up the rules as we go along

    This week’s Economist has a thoughtful leader story on the etiquette of telecommunications. The leader writer talks us through the evolving forms of communication since the 19th century as a parable of manners from Victorian dentists to modern airlines. That…