Who owns your Twitter followers? Who are they really following?
A man is being taken to court by his ex-employers in America for keeping the Twitter followers that he accumulated while working for them. This is not the first time that arguments over the ownership of social media contacts have ended up in the courts.
Posted on Sunday, November 27th, 2011
The EU “Cookie law” is still unclear, despite UK Government advice
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has finally released some advice on how to interpret the EC’s new cookie laws. Despite the continued lack of clarity, it does look like there will have to be some improvements in the way we communicate how websites work to the people that use them.
Posted on Sunday, May 8th, 2011
The Times Online doesn’t need content to make its paywall a success…
The success or otherwise of the Times Online’s imminent paywall shouldn’t be judged on the number of subscribers. After all, content isn’t the only source of revenue.
Posted on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
What’s wrong with the Digital Economy Bill?
The intention of the Digital Economy Bill is a noble one. However, it’s been undermined by a lack of ambition, vague definition and muddled thinking.
Posted on Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Twitter and participation inequality in social networks
Much has been made recently of the revelation that 90% of Twitter content is accounted for by 10% of users – there’s no surprise here as participation inequality affects every social network.
Posted on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
How to stop spam comments on blogs and forums
How can you stop spam from flooding a social media site? It’s like an arms race between webmasters and spammers…
Posted on Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Who owns your online social networking contacts?
A recent judgement in the UK courts has forced a former employee of Hays to hand over details of the business contacts build up through LinkedIn.com whilst he was employed by them.
Posted on Monday, June 16th, 2008
Social media and fanzine culture
As a medium where people could share ideas and be genuinely creative for the sheer hell of it, fanzine culture was like a small-scale internet.
Posted on Sunday, April 13th, 2008