Our last blog post about the Top 40 List of #NEfollowers provoked an interesting comment from chris@ooer.com (check out the ooer.com website, it’s pretty cool). Chris raised some really good points that we thought could best be answered in a new blog post.

Chris’ comment begins like this:

Interesting, but I can’t help but think it’s also rather flawed. (more…)

Dollywagon has developed an Influence Engine that can pin-point the key leaders, influencers and idea creators in any online community or network.

The fantastic @canny_lass has suggested we use the Influence Engine to study the community on Twitter that’s using the #NEfollowers hashtag.

We thought this was a great idea and have resolved give it a try until we either get bored or you beg us to stop. (more…)

In many ways Apple’s newly unveiled iPhone 4G represents the current state-of-the-art in terms of what a mobile phone can be. At its recent launch in San Francisco, Steve Jobs saved news of his favourite iPhone 4G innovation until the end of his presentation. He called it ‘Facetime’, but the rest of us probably know it already as ‘video calling’.

Technology companies have been pushing video calling for at least the past six or seven years but it’s never really taken off. The big question is “why?” This article will suggest an answer and then pose a new question. Is Apple just the latest in a long line of James T Kirk wannabes that have failed to understand why people don’t like video calling? (more…)