Category: Web

  • The big role of the social web in election campaigning

    The final week of the party political conference season is upon us: this week, it’s the Conservative Party in Manchester with all the media attention on the party and its leader David Cameron, who could be our next Prime Minister…

  • Watch your communication-ness soar

    A new technology tool that started rolling out during the past week is Google Wave, what Google dryly describes as “an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration.” It’s got a lot of people articulating a lot of opinions, pro…

  • 100 PRs to follow on Twitter with one click

    Discovering new people on Twitter is what I find to be one of the most valuable elements of the service. Such discoveries can happen serendipitously (eg, you stumble across someone while searching for something unrelated) or by design (eg, you…

  • Is anyone measuring Twitter on mobile?

    As the news spotlight shone brightly on Twitter yesterday – the company announced a new injection of $100 million in more venture funding – market researcher Hitwise published some new stats about Twitter’s growth. Hitwise’s data, measuring visits in the…

  • Finding a viable pay-for-content model

    PaidContent UK reports some of the details of a Harris Interactive survey they commissioned which asked what people will do if their favourite online free source of news started charging for access to that content. The results surely won’t surprise…