Last week’s weekly update was entitled Things that didn’t happen, and what that means, which was directed toward 2013 in retrospect. I am keeping to that theme this week, and trying… Read more »
Years ago I coined the term ‘hashtag’ while in a very active blog-to-blog and Twitter conversation with Chris Messina, the inventor, who suggested using the pound or hash character (‘#’) before a… Read more »
Had a discussion yesterday with Kakul Srivastava of Tomfoolery.com, formerly of Yahoo, Flickr, and Tiny Speck. Got a peak at Tomfoolery’s coming products, but there are some UX changes coming in… Read more »
Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter and the company’s former CEO during the beginning of its evolution from a side project into a major social-media entity, says that the influence of… Read more »
When open web champion Tantek Celik announced he was joining the Mozilla Foundation, not everyone was happy about the news, since he marked the third open web proponent who has joined… Read more »
On August 23, 2007, the Twitter hashtag was born. Invented by Chris Messina (now an open web advocate for Google), the first tweet with a hashtag read as follows: “how do… Read more »
Chris Messina, self-titled “open web advocate,” will take that official title at Google starting Monday. He joins Joseph Smarr, the former CTO of Plaxo, who will also start at Google this… Read more »
Give, give, give — that’s all I (and other social web users) do. But I hardly know what happens to my status updates, comments and photos. I think it’s about time… Read more »