Befriend me on brightkite ..
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 20th Jul, 2008
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I think I quite like brightkite. It has a clean interface and seems to be “smoother” than other micro-blogging platforms. The one thing it doesn’t seem to have for me is any sort of momentum. There are too few people I know on it and because [...]
New Twitter Widget
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 13th Apr, 2008
I’ve added a new section to my sidebar that shows the most recent Tweets that my friends and I have Twittered. I don’t know if you’re into this whole micro-blogging thing, but this new widget should have get more people dragged in, as they see all the fun we’re having
You’ll notice a whole [...]
Do you Twitter? What is it, you say?
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 6th Mar, 2008
I came across a brilliant video clip that explains what Twitter is in plain English:
I love the simplicity of the video, especially as it has been particularly tricky explaining to people just why I’ve found Twitter so useful. The video is a starting point really, and doesn’t go into why Twitter has such a lasting [...]
The Twitter Debate
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 17th Jan, 2008
There are some interesting conversations on Techmeme at the moment discussing the merits and downfalls of Twitter. It seems to have been sparked off by Twitter falling over during the MacWorld keynote speech and made more public Dave Winer discussing whether Twitter would be more stable if it were decentralised, but there’s a very interesting [...]
Getting to grips with Twitter
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 21st Nov, 2007
I’ve finally managed to get Twitter ingrained into the way I do things. Have you tried it yet? If so, does it work for me? I originally found it interesting, but could never see myself leaving a browser open on Twitter, or going back to visit the website, so it didn’t really catch on.? [...]
