Webism Today

The Next Web wrote a good blog post about how blogs are not dead, as Andrew Keen argued. The Next Web argues that blogs are not dying, but evolving and maturing. While this is true, in their original format; as something anyone could create and publish content, blogs are dying. Of course, any one can [...]

Ryanair decided to take a innovative approach to online PR this week when blogger Jason Roe discovered a glitch in their booking system. The glitch, caused the booking page to show 0.00 for a flight, instead of the real price. Roe, being a web developer, thought this was a blog worthy piece, and reported it [...]

No, it’s not Facebook. The largest social networking site in the world is QZone, a Chinese based social networking site. You may not have heard of it, but according to Tencent who recently published a report on the subject, MySpace following a little bit behind. Tencent says that of the 200 million or so accounts, [...]

As predicted by The Next Web, yesterday Twitter announced that they were testing a new home page interface that incorporates the popular and extremely useful Twitter search in the top right hand corner of the screen. The new interface is being tested on a random number of accounts before they roll it out to the [...]

Yesterday saw Twestivals taking place in nearly 200 cities across the world. For the uninitiated, Twestival was the brain child of Amanda Rose (@Amanda) – an event to bring users of the popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter together to raise money for charity:water . Last night, bigmouths Andrew Girdwood, Wendy Rees and myself went along to [...]

The popular social discovery application StumbleUpon has recently passed the 7 million user mark which, according to ReadWriteWeb is 50% more users than Twitter has. Although user stats for Twitter are hard to come by, recent estimates by Google engineer DeWatt Clinton suggest that between 5m and 5.5m accounts have been created on Twitter since [...]

There has been a growing deluge of British celebrities, TV personalities and comedians on twitter recently. A quick grab into the twitter ether and you will find @bobbyllew (Robert Llewellyn aka Kryton from Red Dwarf) @StephenFry, @JohnCleese, @JackDee, @JeremyClarkson and @wossy (aka Jonathan Ross) to name a few. As the Guardian report, @wossy has been [...]

It may have once been described by the New York Times as “the hottest startup in Silicon Valley”, but sadly that wasn’t enough to keep the doors open at Pownce. The web-based service which was co-founded by Digg’s Kevin Rose has been bought out by Typepad creators Six Apart. According to the company blog, Pownce [...]

While many people tuned into their televisions to get the latest information on the Mumbai attacks, many more went online. As Google searches for the Mumbai attacks peaked, many were being directed to Twitter which was displaying 50-100 messages per minute on the attacks, many of them eye witness accounts. Twitter, along with many other [...]

It has been recently announced that popular social bookmarking site Facebook will no longer be acquiring up and coming micro-blogging website Twitter. Facebook have in the past publically admitted to being a fan of Twitter, however, due to several reasons, a potential deal could not be agreed. The popularity of Twitter has grown significantly in [...]