QI, Twitter and Children In Need
Best Twitter of the Children in Need night, from Stephen Fry:
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Twhirl Running on Asus EEE PC (Linux)
So the last few weeks I’ve been tinkering around with a new Asus ‘Netbook’ mini laptop; specifically the EEE 901 Linux version. I’ll have more in-depth thoughts on it shortly (but it’ll boil down to the thing is called a netbook, and if you waved a wand over a Psion Netbook to bring it up to date with the modern world, this is what you’d get). Anyway, I’m pretty pleased with the hacking on it today, as I finally got the Twitter client Twhirl running on the EEE with no nasty terminal command lines or shell windows popping up getting
Best Buy To Use Mix, an Internal Twitter-like Service
Sometimes you really can’t see the forest from the trees, and it takes someone like Laura ‘Pistachio’ Fitton to point out the changes in the real world that make an actual difference, as opposed to driving extra traffic to a silicon valley start-up. In summary, US company Best Buy is launching an internal Twitter like environment called Mix. Over to Laura… Enter Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt, Best Buy’s Senior Managers for Social Technology, and better known as the guys who built Blue Shirt Nation. Drupal-based Blue Shirt Nation went on to become the prime internal enterprise 2.0 case study
Scoble’s Twitter Interview Misses The Point
…but not for the reason you might think. You see, this isn’t a post about the content of Robert Scoble’s interview with the Twitter team of Ev Williams and Biz Stone over the weekend – after all it’s a simple fact of life that the world goes round, the sky is blue, and Twitter goes down just as conversations get interesting – but more about the how the interview was recorded and the feedback he recorded. Setting the scene is pretty important, and I’ll hand this bit over to Scoble himself: I wasn’t expecting to do a video interview. I
Eurovision Pick 3 2008: The Results of the Twitterverse Competition
Not only is the result of Eurovision 2008 in (1st, Russia; 2nd, Ukraine; 3rd Greece), but the results of the Twitter ‘Pick Three’ Eurovision is in as well. The twitterverse each chose three songs, and their scores are added up to give your score. Just for fun you understand… the results (of those I saw in my stream) are below. If you joined in and I missed you, reply in the comments. Twittername One Two Three Score OwenBlacker Greece Azerbaijan Russia 622 EwanSpence Russia Ukraine Sweden 549 Neonbubble Ukraine Rusia Finland 537 Djwaters1 Greece Ukraine France 495 RachelClarke Finland Russia
What If Twitter Wants More Money?
It’s late, it’s Friday, so let’s participate in Web 2.0’s favourite parlour game – let’s think up a revenue stream for Twitter! It surprises me that everyone says that Twitter doesn’t have one. Because it does – a little slice of the pie from every SMS sent and received in the US (and those sent in the UK, given that we’re sensible and don’t have to pay to receive SMS on our handsets). And no, I don’t have the numbers to hand that would let me work out if it’s profitable or not, but my gut feel is that it
