Tag Archives: Twitter

Much as we complain about Twitter, we won’t stop using it

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Ian Betteridge

Twitter Continues to Gnaw On the Hand That Feeds It: I’d love to stand on a soapbox and preach “BOYCOTT TWITTER” but let’s be serious – even if they shunned every last app using its service and forced us to … Continue reading →

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Page Rage: Why Twitter Doesn’t Work Better on Android

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Ian Betteridge

Page Rage: Why Twitter Doesn’t Work Better on Android: A well-placed source tells us that Google’s Android team was supposed to meet with Twitter at CES about how to make Twitter work better on Android. Then, the Search Plus Your … Continue reading →

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The real problem with Google TV

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

It looks like Logitech is out of the Google TV market: The mistake, plus “operational miscues in EMEA” cost the company “well over $100M in operating profits.” De Luca did throw Google a bone by saying that he believes Google … Continue reading →

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Unhappy with social network real name policies? Do it yourself

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

Hugh MacLeod: And as I’ve said many times over the years, Web 2.0 IS ALL ABOUT personal sovereignty. About using media to do something meaningful, WITHOUT someone else giving you permission first, without having to rely on anyone else’s resources, … Continue reading →

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Facebook blocking all bit.ly links? UPDATE: Nope.

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

UPDATE: And it’s fixed. Looks like it was a short-term glitch in the Facebook matrix. – It appears that Facebook has decided that all links using popular link-shortener bit.ly are potentially dangerous – and has blocked them. I’ve tried this … Continue reading →

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Sergey Brin on Google Buzz

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

Sergey Brin On His Six Months Using Google Buzz: “Extracting signal from noise is one of our core competencies, it’s one of the key things we do in our web search product every day. And I think that now peoples’ … Continue reading →

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Kiwi: The best Mac Twitter client yet

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Ian Betteridge

As you’ll know if you follow me or this blog on Twitter, I’me a voracious Twitterer. I also can’t stand Adobe Air applications, which means that my options for Twitter applications are somewhat limited. There’s a few around, of course. … Continue reading →

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If people don’t want journalism, we have no right to make them have it

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

I’ve been partially watching, partially taking part in a debate on Twitter over the future of news (what else?). It began with a tweet from John Robinson: “Tired of the media obsession with Tiger? Me too. Yet people are fascinated … Continue reading →

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A short post on the conceit at the heart of Google ChromeOS

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

One of the prime reasons for the success of Twitter is that it has never been reliant on a single interface. Because it has cleverly exposed everything via rich APIs, it has effectively allowed a hundred interfaces to blossom. Don’t … Continue reading →

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Mark Cuban sums up why Rupert Murdoch doesn’t care about Google

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

In the comments to his points on why ““Rupert Murdoch to Block Google = Smart = Twitter has changed it all“, Mark Cuban gives the best summary about why all the traffic that Google brings to News Corp isn’t worth … Continue reading →

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