Category: Social Media

ActivityPub – The Most Important Technology You’ve Never Heard of

Posted on July 13, 2023August 29, 2023 by rich

Despite sounding like a really bad Marvel rip-off, ActivityPub and the Fediverse might in fact be the next big platform shift for the internet.

Why do people only read things that back up their way of thinking?

Posted on October 30, 2016October 30, 2016 by rich

Remember when the internet was in its infancy? We all had to put up with little 468 x 90 banner ads everywhere you looked – and sometimes we clicked them because we didn’t know better. As time went on we grew smarter, we were able to tell the bad adverts from the good, and the […]

How to Effectively Monetise Twitter

Posted on March 21, 2013March 23, 2013 by rich

There are already “promoted” trends, tweets and accounts, but these are typically the domain of big business. There is a much simpler, but far more lucrative, way to monetise Twitter. The 141 Character Dilemma We’ve all been there… #TheThingIHateMost about Twitter; finishing a good tweet, having -1 characters left, and then having to decide […]

New MySpace = Pinterest + Windows 8 + Cool

Posted on September 25, 2012October 7, 2012 by rich

MySpace. Remember them? They were ‘Facebook’ back when Nokia ruled the mobile world, Yahoo! was the world’s second most popular search engine, oil was cheap, flying was luxurious and Saddam Hussein had loads of WMDs. Then Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook turned up and stole everyone. Rupert Murdoch bought the ailing MySpace for a smidge under $600m […]

Twitter v2.0

Posted on July 10, 2012July 10, 2012 by rich

There is a lot of talk around at the moment about Twitter’s new stance on 3rd party applications integrating with the service. Twitter has pretty much banned clone applications like Tweetbot, and went as far as buying Tweetdeck for $40 million. Twitter says it doesn’t want third party developers to “build client apps that mimic or […]

Facebook’s Secret Grand Plan

Posted on February 2, 2012March 1, 2012 by rich

Various sites (CNet, TechRepublic) are saying that the Facebook IPO isn’t for mere mortals like you and I and not to even consider buying stock. When we finally get our chance, the venture capitalists, early investors and company employees will already have had their wallets vaccuumed clean and the price will be horribly inflated. But […]