Stephen Fry, the go to celebrity for all your technology quotes, will it seems put out for anyone. The Apple fanboy put in an appearance for the launch of Microsoft Windows Phone 7 having previously slated Windows mobile back in the day.
No longer. He likes Windows Phone 7 and he was happy to get up on stage and say so. Although he was weighed down by his freebies. Read More
At what is called the Silicon Roundabout, at Old Street in East London, a brightly lit office space called TechHub 
beckons from the street, to technology start-ups to come on in, and have a place to work.
The working hub offers membership to technology companies looking for a place to hotdesk in London, at affordable prices. When it opened, the founders promised a communal type of atmosphere where networking would be as valuable as popping in to check your email while you are in London for the day. Read More
If you have any interest at all in baseball and are watching any of the World Series here’s a useful reminder from Twitter of who in the world of baseball you can follow.
Not only has it helpfully listed all the teams that made the play offs, (@Phillies, @SFGiants, @braves, @cincinnatireds, New York @yankees, @raysbaseball, @MinnesotaTwins and the @rangers) but plenty of others as well. Read More
Ad Age has this interview with Twitter’s Dick Costolo, just elevated last week from COO to CEO, who is talking about the firm’s monetization plans.
He says Twitter, which last week added another prong to those monetization efforts with “Promoted Accounts” and revealed it was selling Promoted Tweets for upwards of $100k, is about to start booking millions of dollars in ad revenue. Read More
After three days living without Google I’ve had a flavour of what a world where Google never existed would be like. On day two I tweeted: “Google Search is like fingers; you can get along without them, but everything is more difficult”. Something I’ve depended on and taken for granted has suddenly disappeared, and everything was just a bit more difficult and at times, damn frustrating.
So if Google had never existed, which companies would have prospered?
It is distressing sometimes to see how out of touch some people in the mainstream in the media are. Andrew Marr, the BBC political commentator and presenter, at the weekend ranted about bloggers calling them “socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy…”. No really, tell us what you think.
In his speech at the Cheltenham Literature Festival he also accused them (us, you, me) of being anonymous. Having blogged for years in various parts of the blogosphere I certainly wish at times I had been anonymous. It would have got of me out of a few scrapes. Read More
Love this. Everyone has met at least some of them, but someone has helpfully categorized the eight villains of social media and how you can protect yourself from them. Get to it.
My favourite villian has to be the sceptic who looks a little like a beatnik. I have met this guy. He is completely in denial. About everything. Just like the infographic says. Read More
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