A few things that crossed my radar recently. A rant about the failings of tech news and the (lack of) incentives causing it. From louisgray.com. I believe “fast food news” also can refer to the mass hysteria over making sure every site posts the news that a major browser or a major operating system has [...]
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Twitter turns on its Geolocation API From RWW this week came a post about Twitter turning on its Geolocation API, which means Twitter users can choose whether to indicate where they are when they tweet. RWW imagines some interesting apps being built around this function. They suggest, for example, an app that tracks who are [...]
Monday, November 9, 2009
Data.govt.nz launches Great to see that the government, via the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has launched data.govt.nz, a website that aims to pull together all manner of non-personal government data in formats suitable for developers to work with. This is what the people at Open.nz.org were pushing for and it looks like the site is [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Catching up on some reading this weekend I read Rod Drury’s blogpost on xero.com (online accounting software company) about why Twitter matters for business. He does a good job I think of explaining the value of Twitter for anyone running a company. He starts by showing how Twitter has grown over the past couple of [...]
Monday, August 24, 2009
This might be interesting. Via RWW’s events guide comes an invitation to participate in a Twittamentary. In this documentary, filmmaker Tan Siok Siok peels away the hype and explores the human dimensions of how lives connect and intersect, and then are affected and changed, as result of encounters on Twitter. Twittamentary is created in the [...]
Monday, August 3, 2009
A couple of pull-outs from Hitwise‘s latest newsletter. Twitter NZ’s 39th most popular website in June; nzherald.co.nz is media site with most downstream traffic The popularity and growth of Twitter (www.twitter.com), the micro-blogging service, has been astonishing over the past 12 months increasing its market share by over 14 times in All Categories (comparing June [...]
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Bit.ly looks at Twitter-based news service A Wired article about Bit.ly’s plans for growth includes a couple of lines about the url shortening service looking at generating a news service based on tweets. ‘When the world’s 20 million or so Twitter users click links in their feeds, most of the time, they’re routed through bit.ly’s [...]
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Teenagers don’t buy papers, don’t use Twitter, don’t listen to radio This Morgan Stanley report, written by a 15-year-old, got a lot of coverage recently. This excerpt is from an FT story. Morgan Stanley’s European media analysts asked Matthew Robson, one of the bank’s interns from a London school, to describe his friends’ media habits. His report [...]
Monday, July 20, 2009
Bill Bennett is compiling a list of NZ media folk on Twitter. Have a look and see if there’s anyone missing.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
I started following BreakingNewsOn on Twitter a long time ago and I am still a follower. Largely because it does what it says on the tin – it posts tweets summarising breaking news from around the world, generally well before local media outlets pick it up. Like many people, until yesterday I didn’t realise that [...]
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
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