It’s snowing in London – but the real news is that you can see Crowdsourced live snow updates on a map. Last year, when London got snow the hashtag #uksnow started. Also, @benmarsh had the nifty idea to use the hashtag to crowdsource live updates about snow in the UK. Well it’s back and looks terrific. [...]

“I don’t have enough time for twitter, Facebook or blogging.” What if it paid back 200% of your time invested? Photo by Marchin Chady via Flickr ‘Not having enough time for social media’ sounds like the title of a summer song. You listen to it again and again, without asking yourself why. Maybe we should [...]

If you take social networking seriously you’ll end up with a personal brand. Here are some tips on how (not) to mange yours. Photo by bonked via Flickr If you’re reading this blog we’ll assume you’re experienced with social networks. Personal branding is the result of intensive use of social networking. A field we’ve been [...]

Is Twitter the Web’s greatest Ponzi scheme and Evan Williams the Madoff of the information age? Will this ‘pulse of the Web’ communications house of cards finally collapse when the vast majority of Twitter users figure out that the vast, vast majority of their ‘followers’ are nothing like followers and probably never will be. Is [...]

‘How important do you think branding your twitter profile is?’ This was the question asked of me at the latest blur’d Meetup. The answer is obvious, VERY IMPORTANT! Would you have a website or even a business card without your logo & branding applied to it? Of course not. Twitter should be seen as an [...]