IBM and the Twittersphere
This was one of those comments you start to write on someone else’s blog entry, which morphed into a post all of its own. As an IBMer who Twitters, I’m pretty astonished that the company hit this list...
View ArticleDogear Nation #71 – partially Pipr…
By the time you read this you should be able to get hold of Dogear Nation episode 71 (in theory… I won’t be online to check when this post appears on the blog). In case you are wondering what Dogear …...
View ArticleBreaking my own Twitter rules
I’m a strong believer in online etiquette and I guess over time I’ve created a few rules in my own mind which I try to follow as regards to my use of Twitter. They are loose, but kind of sum … Continue...
View ArticleSharing my knowledge on growing technical communities with Web 2.0
I was asked to talk to a group from another large organisation on the topic of “Sustaining Technical Communities using Web 2.0” this week. It has been a few months since I last gave a presentation....
View ArticleAddiction, and choosing the right networks
It seems to be social networking, video, and Home Camp week here on my blog 🙂 Is it addictive? Mehmet Yildiz asks: how did you find Twitter so far? Do you agree Twitter may be addictive? Is Twitter a...
View ArticleTwtrCtr – Tracking Twitter followers with an iPhone
I’ve already mentioned this on Twitter, but so far I haven’t had a chance to write about the culmination of my first “proper” efforts to create a mashup: TwtrCtr. For those not obsessed with Twitter or...
View ArticleSome thoughts on openness and trust in government
One of the things I’ve been taking an interest in lately is the slow progression of Internet technologies into UK politics – or should that be the progress of UK politicians onto the web? We have a...
View ArticleTwiccups?
I’ve been noticing a bunch of issues with the microblogging service du jour lately: apparently, it likes to randomly unfollow people for me then, when I try to re-add / follow them, the API tells me...
View ArticleThe end of email?
I caught a comment from SXSW yesterday, where my friend Suzanne Minassian sent a tweet from a panel she was at: are we going to lose email to social networking – discussing in panel #sxsw (minassian)...
View ArticleAnother Polish social network – Blip.pl for microblogging
I’ve written before about how I find it fascinating that country-specific social networks and tools exist. I suppose I shouldn’t be so amazed, given that company-specific and other...
View ArticleSo, your brand is on Twitter!
Hey, well that’s great. Now I can follow you and your company. You could tweet offers, maybe a couple of times a month, and people could interact with you and ask questions about your product and...
View ArticleSay Boo!
If microblogging wasn’t crazy enough… you can now audioboo! AudioBoo is a free iPhone application linked to a website of the same name. It lets you record short messages and upload them to the site,...
View Article140 characters – the perfect size
This post will be longer than 140 characters in length That’s OK though, because it’s a blog post. It’s not a tweet, an SMS, or a status update. It’s designed to be something longer and more in-depth....
View ArticleThe year of consolidation
An interesting year so far in terms of online services ending or merging. I don’t have a good enough memory to mention all of those that have vanished this year, but there are a number of notable...
View ArticleDigital Local Government
I just saw my mate Dominic Campbell retweet something interesting from Monmouthshire County Council (yes, really!) For those who don’t know Dominic, a) you NEED to be following him on Twitter, and b)...
View ArticleA Kind(l)er way of consuming tweets
I picked up an Amazon Kindle 3 over the Christmas period, primarily because I wanted to be able to support a family member who also acquired one. I’d been impressed by the hardware when I’d had a...
View ArticleSeveral weeks ago – in Lotus
A very quick, and very belated, post to note that I was one of the guests on the episode of the This Week in Lotus podcast recorded March 18th 2011 (episode 43, for those keeping count). A good fun,...
View ArticleDigging through what Twitter knows about me
I joined Twitter on February 21, 2007, at exactly 15:14:48, and I created my account via the web interface. As you can see, my first tweet was pretty mundane! I remember discussing this exciting cool...
View ArticleA little bit of Spring and MQTT
I’ve been involved with Spring (the Java framework, not the season…) for a couple of years now – since I joined VMware in 2012 through the former SpringSource organisation in the UK – and I’ve remained...
View Article#newjob
In late 2011, I was contacted by a very charming, smart and persuasive French gentleman who spoke of clouds, platform-as-a-service, and polyglot programming. It took him and his team a couple of months...
View ArticleOn joining Twitter
I’ve been settling into my new role at Twitter over the past few months. I’m a Developer Advocate on the Developer and Platform Relations team, based out of a beautiful new London office we opened a...
View ArticleSome random reflections on 2014
2014, looking back... a little bit of a year in review. What I've been up to at Twitter, in Open Source, and in life. Continue reading →
View ArticleThree notions / plans for 2016
My own vague ideas about what 2016 should mean for me, have solidified. Continue reading →
View ArticleWhy I am #HeForShe
I've worked in the technology industry for my whole professional life, and it has been an incredibly tough place for women to work - that's just not the kind of career or workplace I want to work in,...
View ArticleSignals, messages, clouds… pigeons?
… AKA, how a flock of pigeons 🐦 is connecting my past, present and future technology interests. If I look back at the past 10 years or so of my career, I believe there’s a continuum of interest – from...
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