Category: Twitter

  • Dell pushes another envelope with Twitter

    I really like seeing how organizations experiment with social media, especially those who keep on pushing those envelopes and invite us to get involved and see what happens during such experimentation. Like Dell. Today at 9am PDT (5pm UK), Dell…

  • Finding people with the Twellow directory

    Much has been written in recent months about the allure of Twitter and why people stick with it through thick and thin. Twitter has no shortage of rival micro-blogging services – Pownce, Plurk, Identi.ca and Jaiku are the obvious ones…

  • Social media and the 2008 Olympic Games

    The opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing gets underway at midday GMT today, an event that will be broadcast live on television across the world. During the next two weeks, you’ll be hard pressed to avoid seeing…

  • The tipping point for Twitter is coming

    Twitter suffered an unplanned outage this afternoon. Not on the scale of the troubles Twitter has suffered during much of this year – things are definitely getting better – but an outage all the same. What’s a Twitterer to do…

  • At WordCamp UK

    After a pleasant early-morning drive up the M40 and and not getting lost in central Birmingham (thank you, TomTom!), I arrived at WordCamp UK in good time for the start. So it’s about 45 minutes into Day 2. About 60…