INEX, the Irish Internet Exchange, where Irish ISPs and content providers “peer” has joined Twitter. While an organisation’s presence on the social media network is hardly newsworthy in itself, the information that they *might* share with Irish internet users is potentially “geektastic” For example: Quietly, while no one was looking, we peered over 45Gbps of […]
UX Passion hail from Zagreb, Croatia. They’ve got a couple of interesting and cool things in the works, but their flagship product has been up and running for the last year or two – Wall of Tweets. It’s been used at a lot of tech events around Europe over the last couple of years and […]
App.net, which Conn and I have discussed a couple of times, announced last night that it was reducing its annual membership fees as well as introducing a new monthly subscription fee. According to a post on the company’s blog, the original pricing was based on them having 10 thousand users. They now have over 20 […]
I remember, it was three and a half years ago. We were sitting in the living room of Michele’s house with our MacBooks open, when I finally installed Tweetdeck and started using Twitter intensively. At that time there was only a few good Twitter clients. I remember only Twitterrific and Tweetdeck. Twitter via the web […]
The guys over at Get Satisfaction have posted an interesting infographic on some of the shortcomings of Facebook for user engagement
It’s the Conn & Michele show again this week! I brought up the Chris Andrews “@brianformerff” twitter story – old news now I know, but I’m seriously impressed by the tech-detective skills of Eddy Carroll who exposed the former TD behind the troll. Twitter’s latest API releaseputs the squeeze on developers, but do end-users really […]
The latest version of Instagram for the iPhone was released a couple of days ago. The user interface has had quite a bit of an overhaul and they’ve also added a new feature – geotagged maps. But they’ve also removed at least one sharing option – Posterous is no longer available! You can still, in […]
As per the title it seems like there are some pretty big changes coming to how you can use the Twitter API. A post over on the dev blog https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api discusses them in more detail. You can read a breakdown of some of the changes over on Marco Arment’s blog. Interpreting some of Twitter’s API […]
The London 2012 Olympics were tracked, tweeted, “liked” and shared via multiple social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube and many more. The guys over at SEO.com put together a pretty interesting infographic Related articles London 2012 Olympics: social media by the numbers (thesportsbank.net) Summer Games Social Stats – The ‘Olympic-Sized Consumption’ Infographic Predicts […]
Michele and I don’t see eye to eye on this week’s podcast. Facebook introduce real-money gambling: Michele says it’s just business. I think it’s the end of civilisation as we know it. Well, not exactly – but you get the picture! 🙂 We do agree that Katie Taylor is magnificent! In London, her supporters broke […]
