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Entries from October 2008

How do you tweet?

October 29th, 2008 · View Comments · social

For most readers, Twitter – the popular micro-blogging, short-messaging, fail-whaling, runaway train – needs no introduction. Twitterer Luke Razzell, aka @weakerluke, is a freelance consultant, UX architect and inventor I met a couple of years ago in Caffe Nero on Kensington High Street – I believe Luke was busy crafting a blog post about digital [...]

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Watch out for the *aaS cloud!

October 27th, 2008 · View Comments · cloud

No, this post isn’t about an episode of South Park – it’s inspired by an entertaining and insightful presentation about cloud computing posted on Simon Wardley’s blog. Aside from a passion for ducks, Simon is an established thought leader and engaging public speaker, with a deep understanding of technology, economics and mathematics. These fields of [...]

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Zembly: Collaborative Social Programming

October 14th, 2008 · View Comments · development, social

This is the start of a couple of short posts that I’ve been itching to write about specific topics that interested me from FOWA London. Not suprisingly, there are a number of FOWA summaries and insights already circulating the blogosphere, including an account of two days camped out on the myspace bus with crates of [...]

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Design TLC

October 13th, 2008 · View Comments · design

Inspired by my visit to fowa last week, I gave this blog a long overdue makeover on Sunday evening (well, as much of a makeover that I can afford given how busy I am right now!). Thankfully I didn’t have to build a new template from the ground up, since a few tweaks to custom.css [...]

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Obama scores tech slam dunk with iPhone app

October 2nd, 2008 · View Comments · mobile, social

As the clock ticks down towards the Vice Presidential debates in Washington, the Obama campaign has once again pushed the boundaries of campaigning in the 21st century by launching a free Official Obama 08 iPhone application. This is by no means a rushed attempt at embracing yet another technology or social media channel, such as [...]

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