The big news in business and the big new in tech this week is that twitter has gone Public. Facebook did this fairly recently, and the cynic in me says it could be the harbinger of doom. I’ve never been a huge fan of facebook anyway (as regular readers will vouch, or even this article by me will testify) but… Read more →
Just over 7 years ago @jack tweeted the worlds first tweet : “just setting up my twttr”. Since that first tweet from user number 3 (after @twitter and @biz) around 554,750,000 others have joined the ranks of twitter and are collectively pumping out 58 million tweets per day. I’ve only been on twitter since 2008 – a couple of years… Read more →
The (genius/mentor/funny) man, who I worked for in the late 90s had a phrase that went along the lines of; “If you spot a gold-rush, don’t scrabble about in the dirt, sell shovels.”. The now infamous ‘dot com boom’ was at the KA stage of it’s resultant BOOM. The internet was alive with conversation and exchange, at the speed of thought. New… Read more →
Last week myself and several hundred web heads converged on Nottingham for New Adventures in Web Design 2012. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect – some very good things had been said about its inaugural year (2011) and this year looked to be a very well put together gig. The brainchild of a fella called Colly – ’twas a real labor of love… Read more →
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