Ben Werdmuller

Tag: twitter

  • Twitter turns a corner

    Dave Winer has weighed in on Twitter’s revamped site announcement, in which it announced 16 media partners whose content would be displayed within the Twitter interface when linked to: For the first few years of Twitter encouraged guys like me to write little hack jobs to make it do things they didn’t have time to […]

  • Using game dynamics to drive participation

    Going out and checking in I’ve been using Foursquare quite a bit lately (here’s my profile). There’s a lot to be impressed by: not least the level of mobile integration. Foursquare doesn’t make much sense if you’re sitting at your desk, so it’s far easier to see where your friends are and check into a […]

  • Reflecting on 2009

    The Christmas period is traditionally when I take a step back and consider what I’m going to do over the next year. For me, it’s a time for family, for quiet reflection and for evaluation. What have I done well? What will I do better next year? During 2009, I left Elgg, the project I’d […]

  • Twitter DoS and single points of failure

    Twitter went down today at the hand of a denial of service attack (alongside Facebook and Livejournal; the latter has also reported an attack). In the old days, you’d shrug it off and go and look at something else. Today, Twitter is such an integral part of the landscape, and some people’s businesses, that it […]