What does your “net identity” look like?
I have recently been asked to comment on an article for the Liverpool Daily Post which attempts to look at how employers use the web to locate ‘additional’ information about prospective employees. The...
View ArticleA question of confidence?!
I will be giving a presentation at the IWMW in July entitled “Let the students do the talking…” and in advance of this Brian Kelly (UKOLN) asked me to write a blog post relating to my talk. When I...
View ArticleMySpace ready to open up?!
According to TechCrunch it looks as if MySpace are looking to follow Facebook down the route of an open platform for developers. I can’t say I’m particularly surprised (given the success Facebook’s...
View ArticleWise words on using Facebook
Om Malik has interesting thoughts on maintaining your Facebook privacy. It’s hard sometimes to maintain your network especially as it moves from social to work “friends” but Facebook has very flexible...
View ArticleFacebook > MySpace
You could see this one coming – Facebook has finally overtaken MySpace in terms of unique visitors. TechCrunch UK is surprised that Facebook is no longer the fastest growing network: In something of a...
View ArticleWho’s your friend?
Facebook have announced they’re working on allowing users to categorise their friends: Sort out your friends. We’ll let you organize that long list of friends into groups so you can decide more...
View ArticleFear of Facebook?!
I had an interesting discussion with Brian Kelly (from UKOLN) earlier and he alerted me to an article in The Independent from last week entitled “Networking sites: Professors – keep out“. As I will be...
View ArticleIs OpenSocial the beginning of the end for Facebook?
Google and partners (including LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster, Ning and others) are launching a new open API for interfacing with Social Networks. I’m not going to go into it too much because plenty of...
View ArticleMore on OpenSocial
It seems that Google had more up their sleeves than the early announcements that leaked out. Today they added MySpace, Bebo and Six Apart (of Moveable Type, LiveJournal, TypePad and Vox fame) to the...
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Get the most of your twitter experience
I know there are a lot of sites and blogs talking about the twitter phenomenon and I don’t intend to turn our Web Services blog into a Twitter blog. Just take a look at this sites and tools for getting...
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Google Wave is coming soon! – Part I
Google Wave was launched on the 28th May, 2009 at the ‘Google’s I/O Developer conference’ in San Francisco. It has been developed by a team working in Sydney, Australia. Which consist of two brothers,...
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Facebook Privacy
There’s been quite a lot in the news lately about a backlash against Facebook’s privacy settings with many people believing their attitude to personal information security is too lax. This isn’t a new...
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Handling Social Media Overload
Wednesday night at Static played host to the second Liverpool Social Media Cafe and I was one of the speakers. The audio was recorded so you can hear exactly what I said or read below for some notes....
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Team Twitter
Twitter Nearly everyone in Web Services has a Twitter account. Many of the team have a Delicious account for storing all our bookmarks there’s even a team one. We needed a way to comunicate useful...
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