#iaintait does not have 1,000 Google Wave Invites to give away
Dear World, I am @iaintait on Twitter. And I do not have 1,000 Google Wave Invites to give away. I don’t even have a Google Wave invite for myself. Since yesterday afternoon I’ve had thousands of people from all around the world…
Three Things to Read About Twitter
Firstly there’s a piece about Inside Twitter in the Guardian The piece itself is pretty good. But it’s the comments underneath that are the telling bit. It’s full of the usual nonsense and lots of people moaning that Twitter is this year’s…
What Can We Learn From Mario Marathon?
3 guys, 1 Room. 7 Mario games. Mario Marathon. These guys are working their way through every console Mario game and attempting to collect every star on every level. At this moment in time they’re 66 hours in and doing pretty well. They’ve…
BakerTweet Now Live
Some of the excellent geeks at Poke have hacked together / masterfully crafted BakerTweet. It’s a wonderful hardware / software solution for alerting people to the latest oven output from the Albion bakery. It’s a wireless Arduino thing…
Twitterfall + Gmail Fail Gives a Sense of Twitter Scale
If you’ve not seen Twitterfall it’s quite nice. It streams in Twitter messages with certain keywords in real time. It makes twitter feel like a bit joined up community (which it isn’t really). What really freaked me out was watching it…
I Smell A Rat – Or Is It A Meerkat?
Deep breath… There’s this campaign right, it’s called Compare The Meerkat, it’s for an insurance comparison website called Compare The Market, the ad is a bit funny. I could try and describe it, but it’s easier to show you: Yes it’s all…
Twitter Went Crazy for Snow Yesterday
In my personal bit of Twitter it felt like there was a lot of talk of snow, trains and snowmen. The thoroughly awesome Twist proves that it was a global trend. Why had no-one alerted me to Twist before? It’s fantastic and does all kinds of…
10 Things I Love About Blip.fm
I said I was going to write a megapost on Blip.fm. Here it is. Here’s what Blip say you get out of it on their homepage: And so far it’s really working for me. If you like the sound of it join up here: http://blip.fm/invite/iaintait It’s…
Blip.fm is F**king Awesome
I’ve fallen deeply in love with a web application. I’m going to write a mega-post on why I think that blip.fm is the greatest thing in the known universe. But I don’t have time just now. It’s like the best bits of last.fm, twitter, and…
Twitter Nappies (or Diapers)
Was clearing out my camera and spotted this photo I took in Sainsburys a couple of weeks ago. Now you can watch your kids at nursery from a webcam. It’s the first in the UK according to the ad. Which made me think… It’s only a matter of…
Let Them Eat Cake. Pringle Cake!
They may crunch like a crisp and taste like a crisp, but Pringles are now officially closer to a cake than a potato snack. Judges have ruled that Pringles could soon be VAT free after P&G managed to convince law-lords that their addictive…
A Hierarchy of Blogging
As I mentioned the other day I’ve been a little slack in my blogging recently. I started having a bit of a think about my blogging behaviour to see if I could make sense of this most recent lull. I’m sure the self-analysis was partially…
Twitter On The Shitter?
It’s a question that’s been bugging me for a while. Do people send Tweets when they’re in perhaps, shall we say, more compromising positions. I did a straw poll around a table yesterday and got a very mixed response. I’m not saying where I…
Tweetwheel Good
This is nice. It shows which of your Twitter friends are friends with each other. Simple, but revealing and oddly engaging.…
Twitter Tip
Those bugging Twitter tips when it has some extra characters to use up are usually just a pain in the bum. This time though it seems like it almost makes sense…
For the Twitter Haters
If I didn’t have Twitter I wouldn’t have had these nuggets delivered to me. Two of the most important things I’ve read in some time… You can’t say that Twitter’s useless now. This proves it. I hope Russell and Hugh don’t mind me posting…
A TV Ad That Made Me Laugh
This new TV ad for Carling lager made me laugh out loud. Mr Cherkoff take note ;-) (from Twitter feed earlier today)…
Twitter / cookbook
And for anyone who doubted the usefulness of Twitter, the Internet brings you… Twitter / cookbook – 140 character recipes. via: kottke.org
My Stereo Thoughts On FaceBook
I’ve got lots of thoughts about FaceBook, some positive some negative. And I was trying to come up with a way to encapsulate it all. I sort of think I have, but there might be some holes in my analogy… For me, this is FaceBook: It’s like…
Why My Last Post Was A Load of Rubbish
Motorola just did a very nice ‘sponsorship’ of http://explore.twitter.com – the tone of it, the way it’s been done and a genuine feeling of connection between the sponsor and sponsoree. And it feels like something that could legitimately…
Hugh MacLeod’s On Fire
Well not literally, although he could be. Although if he was he’d probably have Twittered about it. Visit http://www.gapingvoid.com/ for his latest bout of back-of-business-card cartoonism. One that made me do a super-chuckle:…
Heroic Ads – New Bravia
I can’t help myself. I’ve been contacted by the online PR guys who are ‘seeding’ the new Bravia ad. Part of me wants to not play ball, but the other part of me wants to see what’s going on. I do like the ads and I’m interested to see what…
Twitter Serendipity
I was looking at Dan’s Twitter feed earlier and I saw that he’d noted (whilst at Glastonbury) that the Klaxons sounded like, as I think he put it: “a bag of cats”. I went back to try and find the tweet as I agreed with it so wholeheartedly…
Twitter Screensaver
I did something very simple with Twitter that I quite like. I took the RSS feed from my ‘friends’ page. Then fed it into the Mac RSS screensaver (which is installed as standard on a Mac). Now whenever my screensaver activates I get a…
Some More Thoughts On Twitter
From Ian Curry at frog design: Twitter: The Missing Messenger He makes the connection between Twitter and Tumblelogs too. But there’s two bits in his post that I especially like. It’s basically blogging reduced to what the Russian…
Blogging Without Writing
I don’t think I’ve ever written about Tumblelogs before. Partly because I didn’t think I could figure out what they were or why they existed. But I think I’ve finally sussed it with a bit of help from this Wikipedia definition of…
Twitter Mobile – It’s the Little Things
Just set up Twitter to work with my mobile. And this just exemplifies the thought and smartness that have gone into the application. And what’s so good about it? The code that you have to text in, is all made up of letters that are on the…
Twittering On, and On
Seems like the world is going Twitter crazy at the moment. I’ve been signed up for a while now, but was a little confused about what it’s actually good for. I love the simplicity of it. It’s really easy to get it up and running and very…