Webism Today

Not to discount the fact that the word blog was coined in 1997 by Jorn Barger, it wasn’t until the launch of Blogger on 23rd August 1999 that blogging really began to gain traction.  There is no doubt that the launch of Blogger by Meg Hourihan and Twitter’s CEO, Evan Williams was the beginning of [...]

Evan Williams, Twitter’s CEO was interviewed on the BBC’s Newsnight on wednesday and what followed was a rather embarrassing display of the ignorance towards new technology, poor editiorial decisions and by no means quality journalism in any sense of the word. Kirsty Wark was given the pleasure of reading out a list of questions submitted [...]

Habitat, the thinking man’s Ikea, was at the receiving end of a minor twitter backlash this week. They created a Twitter account a few weeks ago and began Tweeting their offers. After a few tweets, for some misguided reason they thought that putting popular trending hashtags at the beginning of their tweet would be a [...]

  Twitter appear to finally be doing some interesting stuff with their search application. Twitter search was recently integrated into the home pages of all Twitter users. This meant that rather than having to go to search.twitter.com, users could search Twitter right from their home page. The latest news is that Twitter are working on [...]

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 [...]