Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsA little bit of everything

We are just back from our holidays and I really thought that with Foursquare and a ton of MAXROAM credit that we were going to find all these little off the beaten track places or these amazing places to eat suggested by my 791 friends a number of which live are or are from the [...]

I have been thinking about writing this for the past few weeks and my buddy Om gave me the shove to do it yesterday with his post “FourSquare’s Crowley on Facebook, Check-in Fatigue & the Copy Cats” This post is absolute killer to write given my past positivity and possible giddiness on location based services. [...]

In another interesting move post their Chirp developer conference where they assured the development community that Twitter would always be there for them Twitter has launched a new Android client. So I suppose the first question is, whats it like? Its really excellent, the landing page is superb and with a bunch of really cool [...]

I work with a bunch of guys who constantly slag me off for talking about the hottest new thing, they generally give me a hard time about “twitter” “foursquare” and a whole bunch of other apps so you can imagine I was a bit slow to introduce them to Chatroulette. Well you can imagine my [...]

As I said in my last post 2010 involves some big changes for me. I have this urge to get fit and not to die young, its that serious. One of the really cool devices which I have purchased is Withings a wifi enabled scales which pushes your weight to where you decide. I have [...]

I have written on this extensively before and will keep this post short but with all the handbags being swung here I thought it might be an idea to do a simple real world experiment to show why PR isn’t necessary any more for smaller brands. So its Sunday morning and your head is lifting [...]

When Twitter make an announcement its time to wake up and examine the space even more closely but this weeks post of Location Location Location by twitter will change the LBS game. With twitter now over 20 million users location services become the absolute honeypot. I wrote about the value of location based services recently [...]

You wake up in the morning, whats your first thought? “I GOTTA GET MORE FRIENDS” Who lives like this? Well @katelawson worries about getting to 100, @eatingLA begs to hit 1000, and @megalucklylady views @carrie as a hero because she has 10,000. These people really completely miss the value in twitter. “Popularity is not an [...]

Every so often Florian Seroussi comes up with an amazing post and guest posts it here. This one is a stonker of an idea, its comes in a week where Tweetdeck secured $500,000 investment and the channels are alive with chatter of a twitter business plan. Begins below The web is full of articles based [...]