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  • Zurich twitter dinner and the Inauguration in Geneva

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the moment I am planning on going to Zurich for the twitter dinner. It’s the first Zurich twitter event I go to and it will be interesting whether I need to speak swiss german or whether my English and French will help make conversation a little simpler. I don’t exchange…

  • Arte have a twitter channel for their programs

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few days ago I noticed that twitter was tweeting their programs as they were on in German and this looked like a good idea. I commented it was a shame that they didn’t have the same in French. Within a few days it’s there. This morning I saw Arte’s tweet…

  • Twitter’s broken yet again

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd in great style twitter is broken again and yet again they’ve found a new way in which for this to be evident. Today they’ve devided to block all ingoing tweets, no more posting for the next few hours I guess. They really should get a prize for this. No warning,…

  • Twitter and it’s fourty minute delay

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday twitter has reminded me of why I dislike how it’s managed. With the big Mac World event and CES twitter is down, for the count. The problem is that these crafty people have decided that rather than take the site down completely they would let it lag. As a consequence…

  • TwitterFriends

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwitterfriends is another of those interesting tools to see who you converse with most on twitter. You can see who replies to you most, who you reply to most, the sphere of influence and more. As a result it’s a good tool with which to establish who are the interesting people…

  • Tweetgrid – a tool to make sense of it.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday someone twittered about tweetgrid, a simple to use web interface that allows you to see, in real time what people are tweeting about. It filters as many key words to chose and dedicates one portion of the screen per word. If you select four words then you can watch as…

  • The Social media Misnomer

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I spent three hours chatting to people in Australia, Sweden and France via both twitter and plurk and it felt great and the reason for this is that it was personal. We hear so much and read even more about the social media and the social web but there is…

  • Twitter hoped for the best, fell down as a result.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYet again twitter hoped for the best and as a result went down for several hours. It’s a simple illustration of why I remain critical of the way twitter is run. What I love best is the “It’s a problem we knew about…”

  • The online digital self

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 1999 I decided that I would spend 21 days without touching a computer once. That’s because I was in Tanzania for a trip during which we helped to build schools for children in the area. I had decided to do that because so many spoke about the illness of spending too…

  • On twestival

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe first tweetup I went to saw a crowd of no more than sixty people. The twestival had many more. Enough to fill the Doon club. So many new faces but not many new people to follow. It’s fun to see how big the London twitter community has become. The usual…