Hi Everyone,
short post today - I’ve had an operation on my foot this afternoon, and the anaesthetic is wearing off so it’s proper throbbing! I won’t be able to sit at my desk for a few days, so I’m lucky to be writing this from my bed on my laptop. Ain’t technology grand?!?!
In my work I get to work with lots of interesting companies who want to use the Internet to better deliver their products and services, some even want to change the way we do things in our l... Read Full Story
I’m being lazy with today’s post - in that I’m only writing this bit, but I want to share with you this excellent speech I was sent recently by a client. Have a read, and see if it makes you feel excited about the future - it did me!
Rob
The Unforgettable Commencement Address to the Class of 2009
University of Portland, May 3rd, 2009
By Paul Hawken
When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a
simple short talk that was “direct, naked, taut, ... Read Full Story
Today is a big day for some, and a day like any other for many. Unless you’re a Social Media nerd, you probably couldn’t care less, but Twitter reached an important milestone today.
Ashton Kutcher went against Larry King and CNN and fought to become the first user to have 1 million people following them.
At 7.15 (ish) GMT this morning, Kutcher won! EA had offered to give all their games for a year to the person who was millionth to follow him, which resulted in so many people tryi... Read Full Story
According to this article in Computerworld Twitter traffic has shot up, not due to the teen age group who grew MySpace but rather older people - 45-54 years olds, followed by my generation - the 25-34 year olds. OK you got me, I’m 37 but that’s only on the outside! A ComScore survey found that 18-24 year olds, the ‘traditional’ social media early adopters, were actually 12% less likely to use Twitter than the average. They also found that older users spend more time o... Read Full Story
I’ve been near bed-ridden for the past 3 days because my back injury has been playing up - if you don’t know all about it, here’s a quick summary.
In 2001 I took a tabletop jump too fast on a BMX course, lost the Go-ped I was on from underneath me, and dropped 12 foot straight onto my bum - compressing my T8 vertebra to the point 78% was destroyed, and smashing my mobile phone in my back pocket so hard against my leg that I had a white mobile phone-shape-centred awful black... Read Full Story
The rise of web apps over the past year or two has been fast and extensive - I, for example, now run almost all my business processes through web apps - that talk to each other, passing data around to where it’s needed at that time. This helps me get things done faster, and to have far better contact with my clients throughout any business project. I also have applications that take away a lot of manual time-hogging processe, or give me greater coverage without extra work. I love it for... Read Full Story
If you’ve not seen this video before you’re in for treat… it’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all year. Rob Webb of ‘Mitchell and Webb’ and ‘Peep Show’ fame dancing for Comic Relief in their dance off competition… as the GIRL from Flashdance, Jennifer Beals if I remember correctly!
Rob Webb dancing for Comic Relief
Heehee I love it, but as I see it, Brits have always found men dressed as women great comedy. Look at pantomime if you d... Read Full Story
I can’t believe it’s been 2 weeks since I posted to the blog, in that I’ve been on it every day and have been incredibly busy online, but I’ve been so busy the last 2 weeks it’s been hard to actually sit down and write a new post. Even with all my aggregation tools and time-saving devices, just sitting down and writing a new blog post has evaded me for a bit! But here I am, and here it comes…
I find myself a little concerned this week about the gap I feel d... Read Full Story
1.0 February 2009
Please don’t be confused - this is definitely not a guide to making bird noises, in fact it’s not anything bird-related at all.
Twitter is the web’s fastest growing, hottest social media property right now, and you need to know about it because it has the potential to be as big as/bigger than Facebook and MySpace and even takes on Yahoo and Google for news.
You probably have friends who are tweeting right now, in the comfort of their homes or out and about ... Read Full Story
