flakes of nuisance » twitter http://mcneillfamily.com paying attention to distractions since 1958 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:49:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Google Engineer: “Google+ is a Prime Example of Our Complete Failure to Understand Platforms”http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/15/google-engineer-%e2%80%9cgoogle-is-a-prime-example-of-our-complete-failure-to-understand-platforms%e2%80%9d/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/15/google-engineer-%e2%80%9cgoogle-is-a-prime-example-of-our-complete-failure-to-understand-platforms%e2%80%9d/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:51:15 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6647 Last night, high-profile Google engineer Steve Yegge mistakenly posted a long rant about working at Amazon and Google’s own issues with creating platforms on Google+. Apparently, he only wanted to share it internally with everybody at Google, but mistaken shared it publicly. For the most part, Yegge’s post focusses on the horrors of working at Amazon, a company that is notorious for its political infighting. The most interesting part to me, though, is Yegge’s blunt assessment of what he perceives to be Google’s inability to understand platforms and how this could endanger the company in the long run.

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]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/19/good-advice/feed/ 0 I am Spartacus – Twitter goes bonkers #IAmSpartacushttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/12/i-am-spartacus-twitter-goes-bonkers-iamspartacus/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/12/i-am-spartacus-twitter-goes-bonkers-iamspartacus/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:45:15 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6235 “Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!! #IAmSpartacus #twitterjoketrial “

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Social networks, those loose, busy and self-absorbing communities of Facebookers and Twitterers, have always invited analogies from the insect world. If we are to accept the most common of them, then in the past week, Malcolm Gladwell, provocateur-in-chief at the New Yorker magazine, has poked a sharp stick into the online ants’ nest. The twitterers have responded to his provocation by swarming on to blogs and websites to protect their uniting belief: that the future belongs to them.

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Is your Council on Twitter?

Last time I checked, in March last year, your council probably wasn’t. And now it probably is. A total of twenty London boroughs have taken the plunge and are attempting to interact online with their residents, with varying degrees of success. Some are merely promoting council services, consultations or events. Some tediously regurgitate press releases and chop them off after the first 140 characters. Most only broadcast, while others occasionally respond. And a few are occasionally interesting, or useful, or even both. Here’s a clickable summary of how those 20 councils are doing, [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/07/21/twitterburra/feed/ 0 TweetDeck Turns Two, Desktop App Passes 15 Million Downloadshttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/07/13/tweetdeck-turns-two-desktop-app-passes-15-million-downloads/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/07/13/tweetdeck-turns-two-desktop-app-passes-15-million-downloads/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:16:13 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=5276

Popular stream reader TweetDeck turned two on July 4th, and founder Iain Dodsworth just put up a post giving an update on the company’s progress. Tweetdeck now employs 15 people and recently raised more than $3 million in a series B round, led by betaworks. The company’s product started out as a Twitter client, but now supports multiple streams, including Facebook, Foursquare, Google Buzz, LinkedIn, and Myspace.

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