Simple guide to being a real person who someone might want to engage with on Twitter

January 23, 2012
Twitter

For me one of life’s little disappointments is to see that I have lots of new Twitter “followers” only to find that they aren’t worth following back. Sounds a little high and mighty? My approach to life is that I am only here the once so I might as well make the most of it. [...]

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Video games killed the art of conversation – spot the game megaprize competition #TimicoDC

January 19, 2012
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We had a hugely successful data centre opening event at Timico yesterday – 210 customers, prospective customers and business partners came along and, if I say so myself, had a great time (and were impressed ). More on this as soon as I’ve assembled the photos etc – I’m on the move at the moment. [...]

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Protest against #SOPA #TimicoDC

January 17, 2012
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The Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA bill is being considered by legislators in the USA as a means of combating online copyright infringement.  “The bill is so over broad and badly written that it is going to impact all kinds of things that don’t have anything to do with stopping piracy” –  Jimmy Wales, founder, [...]

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Domain disputes and cybersquatting

January 12, 2012
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An invitation arrived yesterday to attend a Nominet briefing on dispute resolution for domain name registrars. It’s a breakfast job in London so I probably won’t go. With the invite came an interesting stat – one in every 3,000 .uk domains is subject to a dispute of some sort! Considering that Nominet manages knocking on [...]

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world record attempt – the results are in #comment24

January 11, 2012
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We had a good go at it guys. When I first discussed the world record attempt for “most comments on an online news post” with the Guinness World Records® people there was no record in place. We came in at 5,455 comments in 24 hours. Unfortunately in the meantime a Japanese pop star – don’t [...]

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CES Las Vegas – the non report #CES

January 10, 2012
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I’ve been keeping an eye on proceedings at the Consumer Electronics Show in ‘Vegas1 . So far it’s a bit disappointing really. I guess we are all used to a rapid pace of change and when it doesn’t keep accelerating we think something is amiss. This year I suspect the change is going to come when [...]

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The social media summary of the world record attempt

January 10, 2012
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 The world record attempt started at 6am on Thursday 5th Feb and ended at 6am the following day. There are three stories to tell here. The first is the charity fundraising aspect that was covered on Friday. Second is the social media story. This was an event largely promoted using the #comment24 hashtag on twitter [...]

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The evolution of TV – Sky and Zeebox

January 9, 2012
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I note that Sky has taken a 10% stake in Zeebox, a service that integrates TV watching with social media presence. This is the future. In fact this, to my wife’s annoyance is also the here and now. How often do you see the twitter stream fill up with comments about a TV programme that [...]

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The morning after the week before #comment24

January 6, 2012
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The world record attempt finished at 6am this morning. Phew. We didn’t get the 100,000 comments we were after. According to the screenshot I took at 6am  it was 5,455 though there are potentially a few “non-qualifying” comments in there that I will have to check. At this point in time I don’t know whether [...]

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World record attempt for most comments on an online news item in 24 hours has started. #comment24 #RNLI

January 5, 2012
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At 6am Greenwich Mean Time (that’s in the the UK) an attempt at the world record for the most comments on an online news item in 24 hours began (ie this blog post). According to Guinness World Records® we need around 100k unique comments. That’s just over 1 comment a second! With your help we think [...]

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The tech detail of the platform being used to host the world record attempt #comment24

January 3, 2012
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The attempt at the Guinness World Records® Record for most comments on an online news post in 24 hours is set to start at 6am on Thursday 5th January. This is going to be an interesting experiment which will hopefully raise a lot of cash for the RNLI. In order to make a success of [...]

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