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It’s Time to Sue The Telegraph… Twitter’s ‘Tired and Emotional’ Moment

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Just for (a moment of) clarity, I don’t mean the journalistic use of Tired and Emotional or Ugandan Discussions, but I do want to talk about that style of phrase from a cultural point of view, where a group of people start to build up in-jokes, phrases and their own lexicon. Stop and think about the shorthand we all use every day. Even phrases that only crop up in the online world such as The Reality Distortion Field around Apple products are ones we are all comfortable using, although that one is easily understood by many outside of our gated

OpenID, Jonathan Ross and the Reputation Game on Twitter

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Somebody is going to do a killer presentation at a conference in 2009 in regards to identity on Twitter and what it can teach us about authentication (*). Why? Because as Twitter has started to ramp up, more and more ‘celebrities’ are using the service. At the same time, more people are pretending to be celebrities and using false names and accounts, which really muddies the water as to who you can trust. Probably the first major UK name on Twitter was Stephen Fry. A noted technophile (the second Mac ever in the UK was his), he arrived on Twitter,

“Pocket Walsh” Highlights the Problems of Closed Application Store

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Sometimes you wonder if there is any justice in the world. Certainly developers who’ve spent countless hours on iPhone applications and struggled to market them will be looking at iFart (with 30,000 sales at 99 cents per sale) and wondering why they bothered. And then there’s a sneaking suspicion that leisure applications like iFart will cause the App Store to start being more picky in the applications that are allowed onto the store. Which probably means that niche applications that cater to a handful of people will get nowhere. That means the likelihood of Pocket Walsh, reported on today by

Independent Tools are the Keys to the Web

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Dave Winer’s posts on using his experiment with Twitter as the basis of a ‘personal Friend Feed’ is an intriguing concept. In short, you grab the RSS feeds of your friends blogs, squish them together, and push that to a Twitter channel (Winer is using FriendsOfDave) to get a little push style feed of your friends content. While you could probably replicate this using a number of online services, I think the beauty of this is that it belongs to Winer – or to anyone who uses this concept, as I fully expect the source code to be released at

The Silent DJ Is Here – How Did That Song Go Again?

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Probably the craziest music I’ve heard is the Silent Disco – where everyone piles into a location, grabs a pair of headphones, and starts dancing to the music on the headphones. The music is supplied by DJ’s which broadcast the music to every headset. So people who want to hear the music can hear it, and those that would rather listen to the DJ on the other side of the room can change frequencies and join a different disco. The point of this is to illustrate that music can be appreciated in many ways. And sometimes not head at all.

Twitter Security Problems? Change Your Password!

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Lots of hand-wringing around the web this morning over Twitter becoming the latest web serivce to have spam, phishing and other stuff that comes with the territory. Twitter should console itself that it is now a big enough target for the dark corners of the internet to spend time and effort into scamming users of the site. This probably legitimises Twitter more than anything else – crack open the champagne, boys! What can everyone else do? Well simple steps first. And the most obvious. Change your password (Chris says it just as loud). the relevant link is twitter.com/account/password but if