Twitter 140conference 7 – Twitter as an information service & how it saved the hamster
This talk by JP Rangaswami, Chief Scientist at BT investigated Twitter as an information service. It could also have been called: amazing things that happend on Twitter. It contains the heart-warming tale of the lost hamster. 14:50 Interested to hear someone describe Twitter as an information service. It's not a news service.. though of course,…
Twitter 140conference 6 – Twitter and the music industry
So much more than just a discussion of what Britney Spears says on Twitter, this was good look at how Twitter helps artists, labels and fans, and cast a glance at how the hell the music industry is going to cope with the internet. Albums, you might be interested to hear, will be dead in…
Twitter 140conference 5 – what is digital presence?
In the first-after lunch talk Dean Landsman and Dean Meyers (@deanland and @deanmeistr) explored digital presence and what it is to have a presence online. 14.15 Everybody has a digital presence. What is presence online? Presence has always been important. Little historical tour: early examples of branding from the Roman Empire, then mass media via…
Twitter 140conference 4 – the 18 year old film-makers from buyacredit
Toby Ben and Adrian were billed as three 18 year-olds taking on the film industry. They want to make a film adaptation of a Jules Verne book and failing to get conventional funding, they decided to use the internet to source the one million pounds they reckoned they'd need. Their donation website is called buyacredit.…
Twitter 140 conference 3 – Kyra Gaunt on Twitter, racism and difficult conversations
As part of a line-up that dealt with the social impact of Twitter as much as the techie or business side of it, 140 got PhD student Kyra Gaunt onstage. The black anthropologist was the first woman to speak and talked about why Twitter lets us have conversations about difficult topics - like racism -…
Twitter 140 2 – Andrew Keen, author Cult of the Amateur
Andrew Keen, Author of The Cult of the Amateur talked about Twitter and Power. He took a few pot shots at previous speaker Stephen Fry - obviously a hard act to follow. 9.50 You just saw a manifestation of Twitter and power. Power is being redistributed now. We're discovering new structures of power. I was…
Twitter 140 conference 1 – Stephen Fry
Twitter hero Stephen Fry gave a rousing speech about how Twitter is a human space for humans. 9.35 Twitter is: by humans, about human stuff. connected by a gossamer network. 9.40 Revolution of the internet is similar to the invention of the printing press. 9.42 On Journalists. "there was no class of person more contemptuous…
Barack Obama has never used Twitter! sob!
We're very sorry to report that Barack Obama has never used Twitter. No, I didn't expect that he personally composed *all* of the Barack Obama account Twitter updates, but some - surely! In my heart of hearts I always suspected that some of those campaign tweets were from the Blackberry of the great man himself.…
Is it an app? Is it a user interface? No, it's a panel. The Sony Ericsson X2 has panels but what are they?
If you find mobile phone software a little baffling - what with different apps, app stores and operating systems, and if you think a skin is something you find sitting on your body, take a deep breath. Prepare to add another piece of software jargon into your vocabulary: meet panels. Unique to one of Sony…
Geek called Molly 'nerds' Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga's raunchy cyberpop hit Poker Face got nerded on youtube by a sweet adorable geek called Molly. Molly covers the song in a really nice way, but makes the track sound a bit like a Sesame Street jingle. This has been described by the internet as nerding. As in -making something nerdlike. Where Gaga…
