Quiz Of The Week: What Is What?

September 2, 2009 Oliver Widder

Gmail is down and Twitter talks about it (see GigaOm and TechCrunch).

Minigeek

September 1, 2009 Oliver Widder

See TechCrunch about silent unfriending and rejecting on Facebook:

"Likewise, if you accept someone as a friend, but then later un-friend them, they will not be notified (...) And if you don’t want to accept them, but don’t want them to be able to attempt to friend you again, Facebook recommends simply leaving their request pending in your queue."

How To Become An Expert In The IT Business

August 30, 2009 Oliver Widder

Simply Explained

August 29, 2009 Oliver Widder

See TechCrunch about Yelp with augmented reality as an easteregg in its iPhone app.

Enterprise 2.0 In The Recession

August 28, 2009 Oliver Widder

See Dennis Howletts rant about Enterprise 2.0.

Gadget Love

August 28, 2009 Oliver Widder

Not Sexy

August 27, 2009 Oliver Widder

Great post from Zack Whittaker about the young Ys abusing our gadgets.

Gartner Hype Cycle Version 2.0

August 24, 2009 Oliver Widder

See Robert Scoble about the Tech Hype Gang.

How To Become An Enterprise 2.0

August 24, 2009 Oliver Widder

See Dion Hinchcliffe about "14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail".

Lightweight Frameworks

August 21, 2009 Oliver Widder

I love application frameworks. Especially those ones made in-house.

Lou Grant In Post 2.0

August 20, 2009 Oliver Widder

Lou Grant was one of my favorite TV show. I guess it's about time for a remake.

Life Before The Internet - Part 1

August 19, 2009 Oliver Widder

If you're as old as I am, you may remember the times when there was no Twitter, no Facebook, no internet, not even Minesweeper. Pressing Ctrl-G was all the fun we had.
(Thanks to Leo Laporte on TWig for reminding me of this).

Generations

August 17, 2009 Oliver Widder

Teens are not too big in tweeting (see GigaOm from August 14). Maybe they just don't want to play this look-how-much-followers-I-have game.

Twitterers Favorite Pets - Part 1

August 16, 2009 Oliver Widder

Twitter gets a new retweeting API (see TechCrunch).

Minigeek

August 13, 2009 Oliver Widder

Transparency In Post 2.0

August 12, 2009 Oliver Widder

See Robert Scoble in "Twitter’s platform shortcomings"

"(...) Twitter search only shows the last few weeks and I’ve asked developers if they can get them but they can only get to the last few thousand Tweets. I’ve been through this before. The first two years of my blog are gone. (...)"