Why I Think the Google / Twitter Deal is a Bad Idea
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Don’t get me wrong – I’m a big advocate of both Google and Twitter, I just think that Google are going down a path that they shouldn’t be right now. In the old days, people preferred Google over other search engines because of its nice clean interface – the homepage looked pretty, with the search box and the two simple buttons. And the results were displayed in a nice clean way – just 10 results.
Twitter goes ballistic
I’m not going to back this up with any quantifiable evidence (just anecdotes from my rusty memory), but it feels like Twitter all of sudden is going mental. I seem to remember reading various industry insider views on Twitter at the start of 2008 (this is one of those rusty memories), and many people either completely discounting it, or saying that 2008 really was going to be the year of the Twit providing they could expand their reach outside of the conference attending tech herds. Well, I know which one of those predictions I think was right. › Continue reading
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Tweetings
- @andrewgirdwood @richardbaxter That advert's a bit weird
- RT @AndrewGirdwood Want to see the new Bing TV ad for the UK? http://bit.ly/9sqCop
- @smoothrisk yes, we're in maidstone buildings mews. Seems alright out on Borough High Street tho
- Powercut in se1, so forced to play candlelit scrabble with @ralphsparkle. I'm so gonna win this http://yfrog.com/5canlxj
- Anyone else got a powercut in #se1?
- @swedeaction Bizarrely addictive location based social media game. About to get big
- Good post by @davenaylor on how SEO pricing should work - http://tiny.cc/LX27s
- @justingould it was still there yesterday
- Oh the temptation #itsonlyaMonday http://yfrog.com/eu5rqj