Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
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.
Just purchased my ticket for the Edinburgh Twestival, one of many events to be held on the same day in aid of Charity: Water. There are still tickets left for the meet-up in Scotland’s Capital (which starts at 7pm on the 12th February) as well as And if you aren’t in Edinburgh, check the main site to see if there is a meeting close to you.
TechCrunch is reporting that Twitter is close to securing another funding round which should value Ev’s company at a quarter of a billion dollars. No matter the economic climate, or any lingering web bubble, investors do not put down the cash unless they see some concrete plans. Now those plans could be a cold hard plan on how to make money from Twitter, or it could be something slightly less concrete in the near future but coupled with the volume of users (and intra-user connections). Whatever The Big Book of Making Money in 140 Characters or Less says, someone has
It’s going to be a big night for Twitter here in the UK, and it’s all the fault of Andrew Sachs and the Daily Mail Three months ago, broadcasters Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross called his answering machine, left a message, and the Daily Mail manufactured outrage over the incident. Brand left the country for Pirates of the Caribbean 4 while Jonathan Ross went and hid in a bunker for his suspension from the Big Brother Corporation (*). And what a jolly few weeks that has been. Because he found Web 2.0 Specifically he found Twitter, everyone knew it was
Twitter users as a force for good? That’s what many Twitterers are looking to do with the upcoming Twestivals. The short history of the event starts last September in London, with a group of people connected by Twitter having a meeting, coffee, drinks and raising some money for local homeless charities. As more local communities sprung up around the world doing the same thing, the idea of focusing on a single day and a large push to bring awareness of the charity:water project. Thus the Global Twestival was born. It’s happening on Feb 12th, and I will be attending the
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
