Tag archive for ‘Twitter’
Remember Old-School Social Networking?
Remember FriendsReunited? Back in 2000 the UK spin-off of ‘Classmates.com’ in many ways laid the foundation of today’s biggest sites. It had a business model, a growth rate to rival that of Twitter and even made a profit of £22 million in 2007 - something Facebook and MySpace are still struggling to do. So what [...]
Twitter Now Officially Mainstream
When mainstream media begin using twitter as a live feedback mechanism and the general public understand what is going on there is no doubt that we can say Twitter has hit the big time. Today whilst watching ‘The Wright Stuff’, a popular morning discussion programme in the UK the stand-in host (Richard Bacon) told the [...]
Site Review of the Week
Following on from last week’s theme (but hopefully a little less negative and more constructive). This week is TIOTI.com (tape it off the Internet). The company is a UK based startup and tries to be a more comprehensive wikipedia for TV shows, but with a social networking layer. It started out life with a good [...]