What even is work? I was quite switched off in the lead-up to this trip. On Friday we started our ~18 hour journey from London to Shanghai to Tokyo. It was fine, I didn’t really sleep a lot so pretty much stayed up for 24 hours solid. I burned through a lot of TV. China Eastern f … | Continue reading
Oof a lot of incidents this week! Tiring but I think I’m good at making calls with this stuff and I don’t really get stressed about them. “Nobody dies if the FT goes down” is my mantra. One of the issues was a pretty nasty XSS attack which was quite a fun one to fix. We were also … | Continue reading
We finally got rid of the large corner sofa which was dominating the living room of our flat. We never used it and it wasn’t comfortable. We’ve replaced it with a lovely table and chairs so that we don’t have to eat off of our laps. I love it. I drove a van for the first time to … | Continue reading
An effective social media marketing campaign is imperative to any small business’s near and long-term success. Today, more than ever […] The post Social Media Management: Small Businesses Can Effectively Manage Time Online appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
The podcast world is enormous. In 2022 the growing market boasted over five million podcasts with 70 million available episodes. […] The post How PodUp is Integrating Technologies to Help Creators Take Their Shows To The Next Level appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
If you use any social media platforms – Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, etc. – you likely know that people are using […] The post The Future of Social Media: Selling on Social Media Platforms appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Social networks come and social networks go. Right now, there’s a whole bunch of social networks coming (Blewski, Freds, Mastication) and one big one going, thanks to Elongate. Me? I watch all of this unfold like Doctor Manhattan on Mars. I have no great connection to any of thes … | Continue reading
In recent years, centralized social media platforms have faced growing criticism due to issues like restricted API access and censorship […] The post Reddit News: One Million Dollar Bounty to Copy appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
The realm of artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant strides in generating text and graphics from simple instructions in recent […] The post Voice AI Splits Away From Enterprise-Focused Text-to-Speech appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Meta – the owners of Facebook – released “Threads” this morning – a mobile app very similar to Twitter, but perhaps crucially not run by a self-destructive narcissist egomaniac (although some will no doubt argue that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are as bad as each other). It’s g … | Continue reading
My activity on Twitter from the week ending 07-03-2023, just in case you may be interested. | Continue reading
It’s probably drummed into you now that networking is an essential part of professional success. But how do you effectively […] The post Networking for Success: Strategies for Building Meaningful Professional Connections appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
The last few times I’ve seen Phil, I’ve really enjoyed chatting to him about the joy of singing together with others. I’m glad he’s written it all down here. It reminds me of Brian Eno’s philosophy on group singing. adactio.com/links/20270 | Continue reading
The metaverse: You’ve heard of it. You’ve likely read about it. You may even be aware of how more and more companies across all industries, from software enterprises to luxury brands, are scaling into the metaverse. As this transition has been taking place over the past year, edi … | Continue reading
On Oct 11, 2019, the high precision surveillance along 50 km of the entire route traversed by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s convoy in India by four drones designed by Anna University made us wonder at the possibilities spurting from something like 3 cm resolution at an altitude … | Continue reading
Many years ago, when I started writing a blog on the internet, the “blogosphere” was filled with larger than life characters, breathless stories, and exuberant explosions of life in every direction you looked. People weren’t so much interested in attracting attention, as projecti … | Continue reading
In the rapidly evolving landscape of social media, Twitter has remained a prominent platform for public discourse, breaking news, and global conversations. As the new CEO takes the reins, Twitter is set to undergo a transformative journey, often referred to as Twitter 2.0. With a … | Continue reading
Monday became Tuesday nearly an hour ago. I’m still counting it as Monday, while I sit in bed with the laptop perched on my lap. It’s hotter than hell up here – not that I have much experience of the temperature in a made up place pushed on people from a re-written book for the [ … | Continue reading
Wake up to a café-quality latte without leaving your kitchen! Breeze past common milk frothing mistakes by choosing the right milk, nailing the temperature, mastering your steam wand technique, and not forgetting to clean up. Take your latte game to a barista level, one frothy si … | Continue reading
As Father’s Day approaches, selecting the perfect gift for the entrepreneurial dad can seem challenging. These are fathers who work hard to fulfill their responsibilities, juggling between the roles of a father and a business leader. They work tirelessly, often behind the scenes, … | Continue reading
Picture yourself in a quaint Finnish cottage, a fire crackling in the background and snow gently falling outside. You’ve just been handed a steaming mug of coffee, and then the unthinkable happens: Your host drops a chunk of cheese into your coffee. As you gasp in surprise, your … | Continue reading
I received more feedback than I had expected on my recent link to an article about people who routinely — and often permanently — share their live location with friends, and I thought it was worth highlighting here. A reader sent me this by email, which I am publishing with permi … | Continue reading
Are you building a brand or running an established business? Then, you would know that SEO is important to get a better ranking in search engines. Search engines are not perfect. If you do not know how to enhance visibility through SEO, your business/brand will pay the price. But … | Continue reading
After setting aside lunchtime to write a blog post, I’ve spent the last half an hour doing anything and everything except write a blog post. This is pretty typical behaviour. I’m amazed the distraction only went on for half an hour to be honest – in recent months my hands haven’t … | Continue reading
Lia Haberman: You might have read about a new, decentralized, social network Instagram is building for “creators and public figures.” […] All new details have surfaced based on secret calls Meta has been having with select creators, hinting at a potential release in late June. He … | Continue reading
MacKenzie Sigalos and Jonathan Vanian, reporting for CNBC with quite a rosy introduction: Elon Musk’s Twitter is facing new competition from a rival called Bluesky, a so-called decentralized communications app that is backed by Twitter co-founder and twice-former CEO, Jack Dorsey … | Continue reading
In today’s digital age, businesses have to compete to capture the attention of their audience. One of the most effective ways to reach out to potential customers is through email marketing. The first challenge for marketers is to build their email list, and Facebook is an excelle … | Continue reading
From nowhere north winds may howl. Waves may rise with such fury that they may come to threaten the artist's craft. There will be crisis The post There Will Be Crisis | 2310 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Employees are ready to change their jobs, with nearly half of American workers planning to look for a new job in the coming six months. According to a new Robert Half report, which surveyed 2,500 professionals, around 46% of them said they plan on making a career or job change in … | Continue reading
Companies are constantly evolving, looking for new ways to diversify their marketing strategies to attract new customers while managing effective engagement with their existing followers. The rise of social media, more than its traditional scope of practice, has meant that busine … | Continue reading
On Tuesday Clara and I spent the day with friends playing boardgames and cards while eating unholy amounts of holiday treats and drinking tea. We spent Christmas with my sister and my new brother-in-law. And now I’m working out a time to meet the first friend I made in Sydney, am … | Continue reading
Mastodon has gotten two things right that no other social media giant has even seriously attempted: If you follow someone on Mastodon, you’ll see everything they post; and If you leave a Mastodon server, you can take both your followers and the people you follow with you. … | Continue reading
The first thirty years of the web may have been an orgy of unregulated expansion, but that era is over. The EU has been a leader with the GDPR, but there’s more coming. And I’m glad. The big players have had plenty of time to get their shit together and they haven’t. It’s time to … | Continue reading
All along, from the frothy 1990s to the percolating 2000s to the frozen 2010s to today, the web has been the sure thing. All along, it’s been growing and maturing, sprouting new capabilities. From my vantage point, that growth has seemed to accelerate in the past five yea … | Continue reading
Saw an ad on Instagram today for Replika AI, where it was touting the romantic relationships feature of the chatbot service, including photo sharing, role playing, and “caring and loving”. All of these, with an AI. Replika started off as an experiment by an engineer who lost a de … | Continue reading
Exactly sixteen years ago on this day, I wrote about Twitter, a service I had been using for a few weeks. I documented how confusing yet compelling it was. Twitter grew and grew after that. But at some point, it began to feel more like it was shrinking, shrivelling into a husk of … | Continue reading
Right now, Twitter feels like Dunkirk beach in May 1940. And look, here comes a plucky armada of web servers running Mastodon instances! Others have written some guides to getting started on Mastodon: An oversimplified guide to setting up Mastodon by Sarah Higley, An Increasingl … | Continue reading
I’ve been contemplating a checkbox. The label for this checkbox reads: This is a bot account Let me back up… In what seems like decades ago, but was in fact just a few weeks, Elon Musk bought Twitter and began burning it to the ground. His admirers insist he’s playing some for … | Continue reading
I love not feeling bound to any particular social network. This website, my website, is the one true home for all the stuff I’ve felt compelled to write down or point a camera at over the years. When a social network disappears, goes out of fashion or becomes inhospitable, I can … | Continue reading
Despite growing pains and potential problems, I think this could be one of the most interesting movements on the web in recent years. Let’s see where it goes. I’m getting the same vibe as Bastian about Mastodon: Suddenly there was this old Twitter vibe. Real conversations. Rea … | Continue reading
Your boss wants an metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does metaverse even mean? If we strip away the noise, what can we say about this, and what can we predict? | Continue reading
This is how I feel when I open up my feed reader—it feels like the opposite of opening Twitter: The web remains a sea of interconnected ideas, across a kaleidoscope of forms and sources. Spending most of my time on just a handful of billion dollar sites squanders the possibilit … | Continue reading
I’ve had the opportunity to gather with my peers a few times over the past couple of months. There was dConstruct, which I hosted. That was just lovely. Then a few weeks ago, in spite of train strikes and travel snags, I went to Bristol to give a talk at Web Dev Conf, a really ni … | Continue reading
Ivan Mehta, TechCrunch: Last week, a startup called Un1feed launched an Instagram client called The OG App, which promised an ad-free and suggestion-free home feed along with features like creating custom feeds like Twitter lists. The app raked up almost 10,000 downloads in a few … | Continue reading
Social media platforms are profiting from extremism, but UX designers have the power to stop the spiral of hate before it starts. ADL’s Center for Technology & Society has launched a first-of-its-kind resource with design principles and user experience patterns that mitigate the … | Continue reading
Miriam has a wishlist for scaling up the indie web approach: What I would like to see is a tool that helps bring the entire system together in one place. Somewhere that non-technical people can: build their own site, with support for feeds/mentions see what feeds are avail … | Continue reading
There was a week recently where I was out and about nearly every night. One night, Jessica and I went to the cinema. There was a double bill of Alien and Aliens in the beautiful Duke of York’s picture house. We booked one of the comfy sofas on the balcony. The next night we were … | Continue reading
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