What is Twitter? By Nic Price on 15 December 2008 — 1 min read Twitter is used in many different ways. As @dulwichmum says, its nearest equivalent that people are familiar with is Facebook status updates. Twitter updates, or “tweets” as they are sometimes called, are limited in length to 140 characters. Apart from that, there are no rules about how to use Twitter. Some people use it to... More
Robin Good at leweb: 12 things we must learn to do really well By Nic Price on 11 December 2008 — 1 min read Thanks to Peter Bihr aka thewavingcat on Twitter I was able to sit in on some of Loic Lemeur‘s Leweb this week via Berlinbase.de, a livestreaming mashup of video and text updates. One talk that caught my attention was by Robin Good who is MasterNewMedia. He asked people about what learning really meant to them... More
Double espresso – Wesabe By Nic Price on 11 December 2008 — 1 min read Things I’ve been getting excited about recently over a double espresso… Wesabe I’ve been looking for easy ways to track what I’m spending. Mint.com comes highly recommended but wouldn’t let me in without a US zip code (at the time of writing). So I went on the prowl for some alternatives. After some research, checking... More
Double espresso – Last.fm By Nic Price on 11 December 2008 — 1 min read Inspired by Tom Coombs’s recent “Have you seen…?” post, here are some of the things I’ve been banging on about recently over a double espresso. First… Last.fm Last FM Last.fm plays you music while you’re online. It can create your own personalised radio station based the music you like, using its audioscrobbler music recommendation system.... More
To do: switch on Labs features in Google Apps By Nic Price on 9 December 2008 — 1 min read I recently switched over from standard google mail, calendar etc. to make more use of and get my head round Google Apps. The first thing I noticed was that I’d lost some features I’d enabled on the standard gmail. I’d been using: Settings > General > Browser Connection > Always use https (for tighter security)... More