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I’m Twittering

Posted by Roo - 21/02/07 at 11:02:39 pm

I finally caved in and signed up to Twitter.

There are a number of factors at play here. Andy Piper and I have been talking about Twitter for weeks now, and he folded earlier today too. James Governor was using it last night, and and Jeff Barr was not only part of that discussion (and virtually involved in last night’s social event via Twitter) but also wrote eloquently about Twitter recently. Really though, blame Euan Semple, who is presenting with me at The Other Web 2.0 Conference in London this week. Yes, those of us not swanning around FOWA are getting the real work done over at STFBUW2ATNPC. Umm.. you know, not the official acronym or anything.

Anyway, Twitter is already fun. I see potential. Others do too, with discussion and ideas raging about everything from how Twitter could be used as a productivity tool to why you shouldn’t use it to manage your todo list, as well as the possibilities of Twitter being polluted by advertising or hijacked as a medium for fiction and ARGs (‘twitterjacking’).

Sadly, all of this interest in Twitter seems to be melting their tubes. I was Twittering away happily when I got home, only to find repeated timeouts later this evening. Quick, someone buy them and host them on something beefy.

Incidentally, all of this interest in Twitter means that Odeo (the other site from Evan Williams the other lovely people at Obvious, and the recently neglected runt of the litter) is actually now up for sale. Quick. Someone buy that so Twitter gets a much needed cash injection. :-)

Social Tools for Business Use, conference notes (day 1)

Posted by Roo - 21/02/07 at 03:02:07 pm

I’m at the Unicom Social Tools for Business Use: Web 2.0 and the new participatory cultures conference today. Having paid the BT OpenZone tax, I’m liveblogging my (growing) notes on

• Euan Semple
• Lee Bryant
• Phil Bradley
• Darren Waters
• Ian McNairn
• and um, me.

after the bump…

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Social events: Wine 2.0 at Bedales

Posted by Roo - 21/02/07 at 02:02:49 pm

As always, the venue of choice for a Wine 2.0 meetup is Bedales in Spitalfields Market. It was great to spend an evening with James Governor, Dennis Howlett, Hugh MacLeod, Kyb, Andy Piper, Richard Brown and Alan Wood.

I took some notes, and managed to break a (very nice) wine glass. Conversation topics included:

• “Social events” trump social networking (as the evening proved, events are an important part of networking)
• Enterprise Irregulars (must read this)
• Twitter (since January it seems everyone is talking about Twitter. James sees value. Others were not convinced. I’m getting closer and closer to trying it)
• “Darwinian algo-trading” (and a guy whose average trade holding is 7 seconds. Wowsers)
• Michael Marshall-Smith (a sci fi author James suggests I should read)
• Ray Ozzie, Lotus Notes and “MQSeries”
• What has happened to Scoble (mix of opinion, from “C-list” to “keep watching”)
• Thingamy (Hugh says check it out)
• Chris Barger
• Why doesn’t Bedales have wifi?
• Cars as avatars
• Why I’m a “f*cko” for not having my blog(s) and avatar name on my business cards (it’s true, and something I need to fix. My guerilla (not gorilla) Moo cards do get me most of the way there, but I ran out half-way through the evening)

Great fun. I am already excited about the next one.