tweetdeck – Ewan Spence

Two Points About Twitter at SXSW

Posted on March 15, 2009February 24, 2023 by Ewan Spence

Twitter is of course one of the major talking points at SXSW, and I want to flag up two things. One: I’m not on Twitter all the time at home, and on it far less when on the move in a foreign country with no mobile broadband at an affordable cost. If you have to get in touch with me and you don’t want to call my mobile (to be honest it’s just as expensive for me as it is for you), then please send a text message to +44 7966 152772 (and let me know who you are). Two:

The Modern “Old Lady / Young Woman” Picture For The Press

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Ewan Spence

A lot depends on your perspective, but do you see here new media on top of old media, old media showing it can lie on top of anything new, or something else? Either way, a picture that maybe needs a bit more thought than normal from Mark Hunter.

The Twitter House That Jack (and Evan) Built May Be Taken Over By… Everyone

Posted on January 18, 2009January 18, 2009 by Ewan Spence

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