Interesting Where 2.0 talk from Dave Fetterman, creator of Facebook Platform and leader of the Facebook mobile engineering team: “Bridging the Desktop and Mobile Web Divide Through the Social Graph. It’s safe to say he’s excited by mobile There are over 100 million Facebook mobile users. Facebook mobile users are twice as engaged as web site only users. [...]

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I just read an awesome post by Craig Newmark called Trust and reputation systems: redistributing power and influence. Despite the apparent simplicity of Craigslist, the man Craig definitely has a firm understanding of trust and reputation systems. I was happy to read this bullish outlook for the future: Restating the bottom line: we are already seeing [...]

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Sadly I couldn’t make it to BarCamp London 7 this weekend, but thought it would still serve as a decent enough occasion to share some thoughts about the Rummble API via the interwebs. The API officially launched last month at Over the Air, however I was the first person to take it for a spin [...]

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Mashup* Being Location Aware took place last Thursday at Ogilvy UK in Canary Wharf. I had the pleasure of sitting on an experienced panel of GIS experts, and spoke about my perspective on location-based services. The debate was moderated by Tony Fish and further insights and analysis were offered by Dr Daniel Arthur of International [...]

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….if this is your first time at BarCamp then you must give a presentation. No shirt. No shoes. No rules. Tyler Durden would be proud. Well actually it’s not quite that hardcore – you don’t have to give a presentation (I jest – of course you can keep your shoes on ) I’ll cut to [...]

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I don’t know a great deal about Yoga, but suspect the position in which I’m writing this post on board the BA207 to Miami would be called “praying mantis”. After a few days of remote working beside a pool (why not?), and Sunday hanging out at BarCamp Miami, my final destination will be Future of [...]

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Aside from a few tweets, I’ve not yet had the chance to blog about the big event of last week. After just a couple of months in incubation, Twestival parties were thrown in 202 worldwide cities to raise funds for charity: water, that brings essential clean water to some of the most impoverished people. Donations [...]

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In December I hinted of plans for Total Hotspots to build an slick new mobile app, but couldn’t reveal any details about the platform or planned integration. Since then I’ve been busier than ever making these plans a reality with the help of some extremely talented individuals. The big news is that Rummble and Total [...]

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Today is a one of the most important days in political history. Finally the US, and the World, has a great leader in President 2.0, Barack Obama – of whom we should be truly proud. I’m confident that waving goodbye to Bush will indeed present a positive new era of change that has been resconating [...]

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Earlier today @foxnews tweeted the shock breaking news that Bill O’Reilly is gay. Shortly afterwards offensive and obscure messages were posted on 33 high profile accounts, including Facebook, Britney Spears, and President-in-waiting Obama. Twitter had been hacked. This comes at the same time as a phishing scare in which thousands of people complained about receiving [...]

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