Archive For The “technology” Category

Why Google Plus is positive for every business

By | November 21, 2011

Why Google Plus is important for every business online – or how an on-going relationship can be established through one Google Search.

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London Heathrow closed due to Twitter

By | November 14, 2011

It’s not just a question of a business having a twitter account, or about monitoring it outside of ‘office hours’, or answering email promptly. This is a question of how social media has changed the way any business must think about real service and how their business competes.

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Can Romans help Russians in the dark?

By | November 1, 2011

David Petherick looks at the history of daylight savings time, and discovers that the Romans might have been on to something with their water clocks…

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Finding the time to get lost in Venice

By | October 28, 2011

I was struck by how much has changed in the way we travel in the 17 years since this film was made, and the (literally) far-reaching effects of internet technology.

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80 Top Tweets of February 2009

By | March 11, 2009

Originally published: 03 March 2009 at The Next Web Stephen Fry (via last.fm) No, this is not scientific – it’s just my opinion as a Next Web Editor. Following on from my popular Top Tweets of 2008 blog, and 50 Top Tweets of January 2009, these are the best Tweets from Twitter that I saw [...]

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Do you remember your first tweet?

By | December 16, 2008

Originally published: 16 December 2008 at The Next Web Do you remember what you said when you first used Twitter? Do you remember when it was – or who you were with? The text of My first ever tweet. Actually, neither did I – until I came across My First Tweet – which, unsuprisingly, will [...]

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I don’t do meetings. I do tweetings.

By | September 6, 2008

“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate” – Dave Barry

I don’t do meetings any more. I used to do a lot of meetings. But not any more. Now, it’s tweetings…

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