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Tag Archives: Twitter
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

I am pleased to announce the free online release of my review of the impact of the social web for 2010. This work was completed as part of a University module entitled “Social, legal and ethical aspects of engineering” (and known as SLEASE). Entitled “Social, Legal and Ethical Aspects of online Communities and Social Networks”, [...]

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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

There’s been some uproar (somewhat undeservedly, in my opinion at least) over the new trending alerts bar thingy that turned up in Twitter for iPhone with its last update. So much so that some clever person decided to tag it the #dickbar – which promptly became a trending topic for a number of days. Looks [...]

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Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

It is with great pleasure that I announce my latest open-source adventure in the form of Twiq. Twiq is a little applet for Windows that allows you to quickly tweet a message you come up with and then get straight back to work. Too many times I have forgotten something funny, useful or generally tweetable [...]

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Sunday, December 12th, 2010

So LeWeb 2010 has now come and gone, and I thought I would take a minute just to round up my thoughts on the event. First of all, I thought the whole thing was superbly well organised – @loic, @geraldine and their teams did a fantastic job. Everything ran smoothly, and a nice consistent 10 [...]

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Monday, November 15th, 2010

In terms of Twitter clients on Google’s Android mobile operating system, you’re not spoilt for choice. Among the many many clients that have appeared out there, the three “big guns” are actually pretty different. Twitter’s own, Seesmic’s and TweetDeck’s offerings each have their own advantages and disadvantages. Having given them all a good go over [...]

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