Category: Web

  • The substance of FriendFeed

    ReadWriteWeb has a poll asking: "Are you using FriendFeed?" I am, so I’ve answered the poll. The single biggest result is the 42% saying they’ve been using FriendFeed since before March, plus the 13% who’ve signed up "after all the…

  • Expanding the scope of EuroBlog 2008

    The EuroBlog 2008 conference in Brussels, which ended on Saturday, brought together about 100 people from the worlds of PR academia and PR practice from across Europe and from the USA. The event was billed as "Social media and the…

  • The political cynicism of Quaero

    I’m probably one of the relatively few Englishmen who think the European Union is a good thing. After all, I am from a country that talks about Europe generally as a separate place, as in "I’m going to Europe" rather…

  • Disrupting mobile data costs

    I twittered the other day about my most recent Vodafone bill for mobile phone service that included a charge of £80 for data use. ‘Ouch’ was the polite epithet I used. Although the costs for using a mobile phone to…

  • Buzz on the go

    A couple of weeks ago, I met Luke Razzell at the social media cafe in London. Luke is CEO of i-together, the UK company behind Blog Friends, one of the more useful applications for Facebook. What Luke introduced me to,…