The Machine - Social & Semantic Construction
Mobile Connectivity… I can haz the Interweb everywherez!
Thursday, April 16th, 2009The great thing about being a marketer is that being a hypocrite often comes with the job. Take for example my previous rant on iPhone hype where I bagged the marketing zeal surrounding its launch whilst having a gentle dig at its lack of functionality. Well, I didn’t go and buy one, but I did [...]
The rise of RSS?
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Quite a few years ago, when I was producing websites and regularly reading whitepapers on emerging web technologies, the orange RSS icon would often raise itself up as a great hope for the future and a working example of the power of XML schema. The consumer-centric side of me however could just not see its [...]
The Twitter Conundrum – microblogging or conversations?
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008I have to admit to being a somewhat passive member of Twitter, more from time limitation than by design or intent. But from my distant voyeurism I’ve noticed that far from their interesting beginnings as microblog musings, tweets seem to be evolving into mid-90s IRC-style conversations for stay-at-home mums and other company-starved individuals.
Now I’ve been [...]