Category: Technology

  • What Twitter with ads might look like

    Web technologist Niall Kennedy has done something very interesting with Twitter – he created TwitterFE. […] a fully-functional read-only clone of Twitter.com designed to make your web browser sing. I created the site as an example of web development best…

  • Complementary tools to listen to Twitter

    For listening to conversations on Twitter about your brand, your client’s brand or anything else you need to be paying attention to online, you are literally spoiled for choice. I think one of the simplest yet more effective tools available…

  • The Motrin storm: breathtaking speed and scale

    Four years ago, an online storm erupted over the best-selling bicycle lock brand in the USA and how anyone could open the lock with a simple ball-point pen. During a 10-day period, a groundswell of commentary and opinion about Kryptonite…

  • 5 tips to being safe online

    The email I received this morning from PayPal was such a genuine-looking one, it almost had me fooled. Except it wasn’t from PayPal at all but instead an attempt at phishing. The first giveaway that it may not be the…

  • Change the game to suit the player

    There’s talk that Barack Obama will have to give up doing email once he moves in to the Oval Office. […] The US president-elect is likely to give it up, aides told the New York Times, because transparency laws would…