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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.
Om tells [...]

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 surprise [...]

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 with [...]

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 and [...]

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 indication of quality.” Vanna Bonta
Check [...]

You are now familiar with my regular cyber squatting on Pat’s blog. Today 1 year after this post we are going to see if Twitter can be mainstream and still be interesting.
In last few weeks celebrities took over our favorite social medium. Not that it bothers me. Twitter is a democracy. My issue is mostly [...]

So should we trust authority on Twitter?
Not in a million years is my thought, all it really means is that we are trusting loudhailers more than microphones.
What interesting today is that how Techmeme really runs what our larger bloggers write about. Mike is up there screaming about bloggers loosing the plot over Loic’s plan and [...]

Whats going on in Vodafone?
Earlier in the year they purchased Zyb the European based address book back-up service, I am a huge fan and was informed by senior sources that it was going to become a loopt based play eventually. As you can see from the image below everything was moving in the right direction.

Today [...]

Its the end of a fantastic year but a chat with a few friends over the past few days have got me thinking.
I think we are being played, I didn’t mind it so much before but its become so bad lately that its gone beyond a joke.
This is not about brands its about people that [...]