Awesome new Twitter plug-ins for WordPress
You may notice a new icon on every post. It comes from Dan Zarrella (@danzarella), who I continue to be hugely impressed by. It started back in December when I spotted his interesting analysis of...
View ArticleSaturday link round-up
Some interesting links for the weekend: London’s best free wi-fi hotspots – Timeout: The type of guide I kept meaning to find/write, and suddenly it appears! Email is such a blunt tool – Neil Perkin:...
View ArticleWho will kill online newspapers first? Their subjects, or the lawmakers?
It could be a great time to run a newspaper soon, if Judge Richard Posner has his way. He has suggested that linking to copyright material should be outlawed, ‘Expanding copyright law to bar online...
View ArticleBe careful when naming your Twitter application…
If you’ve built a third-party application for Twitter, you’ll want to think carefully about what you call it, following the company trademarking the term ‘Tweet’. The official response has been posted...
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Did Microsoft China copy and clone Plurk?
Is Microsoft China’s MSN Juku a straight theft of code and design from Plurk, the microblogging service which has had major success in the Asian world? Despite fading after initial interest in the...
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Ingredients missing from Twitter’s Blackbird Pie to embed tweets
Twitter’s message embedding tool, Blackbird Pie, is now live. Well at least it would be, if the application hadn’t already toppled over due to the interest in it: Twitter's new Blackbird Pie...
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The death of the Open Web has been somewhat exaggerated
I’ve just been reading through a short and interesting piece by Virginia Heffernan referring to ‘The Death of the Open Web‘. She compares the move from open websites to the walled garden of apps to the...
View ArticleDoctorow video on copyright and piracy – must watch
Nice video of Cory Doctorow posted by the Guardian, and popping up in my RSS feeds thanks to The Pirates Dilemma. The timing is particularly nice considering part of the video covers Hollywood and...
View ArticleORGCon 2012 – a day on digital rights well worth your time
Whether you’re a content creator, publisher or just have an interest in the future of the internet, it’s well worth checking out the ORGCon 2012 event on March 24, 2012, which is organised by the Open...
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ORGCon 2012: My experience and thoughts
There’s never been a more important time to be aware of the issues around Digital Rights, whether your main concern is copyright, privacy, or internet access. You can debate whether being able to get...
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