With the increase in use of Smartphones and Push email and messenger services, is it possible in the not to distant future we will see the eventual end of SMS messenging? With twitter and other services further intergration it just strikes me that some of these services could potentially become more obsolete as others will… [Read more…]
A certain Conservative tweeter this morning suggested that they needed ”…to get the message across, a vote for LibDems = a vote for Labour. The idea of Clegg & Cable playing politics is scary! #GE10″ it’s nice to know that on the morning when we announce our tax plans and that is what the twittersphere… [Read more…]
Yesterday I posted some questions/ponderings on twitter over what was about to change over MP and PPC useage of twitter and other social media in the run up to the next election (I also pondered a few other things like which MP will get egged first). My expectation was that usage would see a big change from… [Read more…]
It would appear that there are some new essential equipment for a budding political activist/candidate they are, in no particular order. 1) Laptop with twitter app installed (probably tweet deck) 2) Smartphone (probably iphone) with a) Twitter based app b)Party app (unless you are Lib Dem or green party) 3) A camcorder (to record various vlogs… [Read more…]
I, like many people, find the tweets by tweetminister, and their analysis of their stats, very interesting. However I have been recently wondering how reflective these are of the general publics view of the parties. If we take their “sentement change” for example and assume that this is a 100% accurate way to analysis the… [Read more…]
So after a few days of exploration I have discovered a few cool features about Buzz and have had a bit of disappointment. First the cool features. 1) the possibility of adding a “buzz this” link to my blog. [downside is that i'm not sure how to do this] 2) following some blogs and interesting… [Read more…]
Today I woke up, like any other day and started my daily routine, got dressed, had breakfast checked my emails and bbc news, checked twitter… That was the moment when things started to get interesting. The second highest trending topic was called Google Buzz and, after a short investigation, I discovered that this was Google’s… [Read more…]
I’m just trying out this new version of a social networking program called foursquare. The basic idea is that its only interested in WHERE you are rather than what activity your doing/did like twitter and facebook are more focused around. Having a mere blackberry rather than an android or Ipod means that I have to… [Read more…]
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