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Tag: twitter

  • Amazon EC2 4-day downtime debacle: Keeping your users in the dark is naughty

    A few days ago, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (or EC2 to you and I) had a catastrophic failure. The world kept turning, but unfortunately, the third-party collaboration/SVN tool we use was on the affected East USA zone where the issue…

  • Twitter's other spam problem: Username chaos

    A few months ago, Twitter published a State of Twitter Spam blog post. It claimed to have reduced spam from fake accounts to little more than 1%, lowering the number of offers for prescription drugs, dodgy online scams and invitations…

  • The hardest thing about an idea is to get it started

    Last week, I was kindly invited to attend LeWeb 09 as official blogger. LeWeb is a yearly, two-day conference in Paris, which takes a deep look at the web now and in the future. It’s a frenzied opportunity to meet…

  • Torchwood Writer Gets Online Abuse: Where social media stops being fun

    A few days ago, I wrote about the Torchwood 5-day mini series which ended on Friday. During that same evening, it’s with great amusement that I also discovered that James Moran, writer for Severance, and episodes of Doctor Who, Torchwood,…

  • South by Southwest 2009: Surviving a Week of Geekery

    I landed back in the UK two days ago, and I can already feel the most vivid memories of the week slipping away. Before any more memories disappear, better put pen to paper (figuratively, you know I rarely use paper)…

  • How Stephen Fry lost Britain hundreds of man-hours of work

    Around lunchtime today, Stephen Fry, national treasure and Twitter celeb, announced that to celebrate having 50,000 followers, he would hold a challenge: He adds “There’s the competition in a nutshell below. Star it for reference. The prize will be good…

  • Kicking off 2009 with a new themeword: Impact

    Nearly a year ago, I wrote about my #themeword for 2008, which was exploration. My objectives were to explore in four key areas; travel, business opportunities, new or unused skills and friendships/ relationships. In reflection, it was a good year.…

  • Happiness at Christmas is…

    Yesterday, I asked fellow Twitter users what Christmas happiness was to them. I got a fun range of answers, so I thought I’d post them uncensored and as-is… sherrilynne: Happiness at Christmas is knowing there are no deadlines for two…

  • Twitter buys Summize: The PR tracking tool of the future?

    Today, Biz Stone confirmed that Twitter has acquired Summize, which used to crawl online reviews and blog discussions to create summarized reviews of music, movies, books and more. Or so says CrunchBase. To be perfectly honest, I’d never heard to…

  • On the topic of Twitter and scalability

    Talios: “I wonder if Scoble could be used as a scalability term. “This application support five 9’s and is fully scobalable.”