fordie’s Blog

Companies today are climbing over each other to harness the power of social networks, to reach a wider audience and ultimately get more sales. Get it right and the public will love you. Get it Wrong and you’d better be prepared for some pain
They forecast snow but it looks like hfail.
Just over a week ago [...]

I just noticed that Facebook have stopped pre pending their statuses with “is:” which, in my opinion is a good thing. Unfortunately they haven’t stopped pre pending “is twittering: ” to updates that come in from twitter.
Fortunately Dustin Brewer has come to the rescue by developing twittersync which, as the name sort of suggest syncs [...]

I reluctantly caved in and joined Facebook a few weeks back. At the time I really couldn’t see the point, after all – I have my blog and twitter for talking at people, Flickr for my photos, del.icio.us for bookmarks and last.fm for my music. Why would I need anything else?
For the first couple [...]

This morning I added a box at the top of the blog entitled “what’s fordie up to now?” this takes a feed from Twitter. Twitter is one of the many social network type websites, the idea of this one is that you can let your friends (and complete strangers) know what you’re doing right now.
I [...]