Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Mashable’s Ben Parr reports that Picasa will become Google Photos and Blogger will become Google Blogs over the summer. Makes perfect business sense, but this, coupled with Google Plus, feels like the Mountain view company growing up and becoming even more corporate and "me-too" than at any time in its past.
There’s been a lot of movement in the last week or so in the field of micro-blogging, from discussions about searching on Twitter, the fund raising of both TweetDeck (an Adobe Air based client) and Indenti.ca (an open source micro-blogging platform that mirrors Twitter’s functionality). All of this is built on the principles of Twitter – an API that everyone can interact with is the main reason this has been possible – but there’s more and more movement away from the central Twitter service to having clients that talk to just the database from your computer, or that build up
Sitting up catching the start of the Results Coverage of the Local Council and London Mayoral elections on the BBC, and I have to say congratulations to whoever decided that inviting three of the UK Political Bloggers into the ‘secondary’ studio would be a good idea, because it is. Those representing ‘us’ are… Iain Dale, Conservative (http://www.iaindale.blogspot.com/) Luke Akehurst, Labour (http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/) Alix Mortimer, LibDem (http://fabulousblueporcupine.wordpress.com/) While the main studio is the usual BBC holdout of Dimbley, three politicians, the political correspondent and the academic, over at City Hall the bloggers are being regarded as full commentators, rather than a sideshow
