A few months ago Stewart mentioned Sweetcron as a "lifestream" solution (You can see his here). A "lifestream" basically acts as an aggregator of all your online activities, as many of the online services that people use, such as Twitter, Flickr etc., publish your activity via RSS.I'd already been experimenting with Movable Type's Motion, which is a pretty cool addition to an … [Read more...] about Playing With Lifestreams and SweetCron
Green Party Take Online Idiocy To A New Level
Irish political parties are trying to use online media. Unfortunately they're more "trying" than anything else.Remember the Green Party spamming bloggers?How about Fine Gael ripping off the BBC website?Well it looks like the Green Party are definitely outdoing their competitors when it comes to online idiocy. Their official Twitter account posted this charming message earlier … [Read more...] about Green Party Take Online Idiocy To A New Level
Tshirt For Twitter Fanatics
You may remember the "I'm blogging this" tshirt...Now meet the "I'm tweeting this" version:Find out more on ThinkGeek … [Read more...] about Tshirt For Twitter Fanatics
Using Twitter To Prove A Point (Sort of)
When you run your own business you can end up becoming heavily invested in your business' success and failure. Comments and feedback, both positive and negative, might affect you more than you would like to admit.Over the last few years the company I founded has grown from operating out of a bedroom (or two) to having a fulltime staff of close to 20.Over the years we've … [Read more...] about Using Twitter To Prove A Point (Sort of)
Twitter Tweaks and Changes
Over the last couple of days we managed to get our hands on the @blacknight twitter account, so we'll be moving everything across to it.I also realised that my own twitter username was stupidly long when it didn't have to be, so I changed it to @mneylonNot terribly exciting, but both accounts now use shorter usernames, which on a system with character limits does make senseThe … [Read more...] about Twitter Tweaks and Changes