Sign in with "Twitter Connect"?
Google’s done it. Facebook’s done it. And now Twitter is in on the act, to allow you to sign in to other applications using your Twitter ID and password. The…
David Petherick
Scotsman David Petherick is a director & co-founder of several companies, and provides social media strategy & visibility services. David became known as ‘The Digital Biographer’ after a 2007 BBC radio interview, speaks Russian, wears the Kilt, and is a co-author for the books 'Age of Conversation 2.0, & 3.0'.
Stories by David Petherick
Google CEO revises view of Twitter: "It's an incredibly useful thing"
Image by wwphotos via Flickr According to Dow Jones Newswires, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Thursday he would be happy to pursue an advertising deal with Twitter. Having…
iPhone Prototype uses RFID
Adding an RFID reader to an iPhone allows all sorts of possibilities, and this video shows how everyday objects can trigger a video related to that object. iPhone RFID: object-based…
Smile: Here comes the Sun
Sun Microsystems’ Startup Essentials are Giga sponsors of The Next Web Conference, and their Startup Rally series kicks off tomorrow in Amsterdam. ‘Spotlight’ Video Elevator Pitches However, they have not…
Tweepz: a cleverer way to find people on Twitter
Twitter is a fairly boring place if there’s nobody interesting you are following – but it’s always been an issue to find interesting people. Tweepz is a new site, currently…
Leadjini offers 'anonymous' lead generation widgets
Getting actual contact from web sites has always been a troublesome area for three important reasons – people hate filling in forms, people are wary of getting a lot of…
Web Trend Map 4 (Final Beta): Amazing Map of the Web
Every year, the Tokyo Underground map is used as the basis to redraw a map of the web by IA Inc, mapping the 333 most influential web domains and the…
The Next Web: Stripped Naked!
Purifyr strips web sites down to their basics and gets rid of irrelevant clutter – ideal for mobile browsing or printing, and for speeding up your experience on slow or…
Digg's toolbar is a game-changing twitter-friendly URL shortener that's nine characters away.
The problem with many sites that do useful things is that you have to go there to use them. That’s why things like our own TwitterCounter and Twitter Remote (see…
MicroFundr™ a complete success. (A completely successful April Fool joke)
We have a confession. The Short Change Venture Capital’s MicroFundr™ Fund, which we announced yesterday, was an April Fool. It was a fake, it was a hoax, it was some…
I no longer @reply, I just '@mention' you on Twitter...
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams by Getty Images via Daylife Twitter’s blog has news of a small, but quite significant change in the way that ‘replies’ are handled. As a Twitter…
This is the sound of the Twitters! (Audio)
twitterTronic by ourielohayon Just listen. A fabulous creation sampled from Twitter client sounds, this is a fun and funky track called TwitterTronic. It’s a musical creation of @aerostart and @ourielohayon…
The secret life of lost & found objects
On the day Barack Obama was inaugurated in January, 200 mobile phones were lost on the Washington DC Metro alone. A free lost-and-found service for your objects, called simply SendMeHome.com…
The ultimate camouflage for Photoshop geeks
This could be the ultimate in camouflage for geeks – an ‘erased torso’ t-shirt – available to buy. Personally, I just can’t see why it’s so appealing. (That was a…
Exclusive Interview: Xing's Chief Product Officer - "We're going to ship it, fast and often"
Today, Jason Golderg was named in the new post of Chief Product Officer at Xing, a business social network with over seven million members, and over half a million members…
