Coding Relic

Venmo pushes hard for transaction activity to be Public. It doesn't say whether any past payments were actually public, and puts up an i...

I received an email from Nextdoor, clearly a paid advertisement targeted at people who live in my town. The person who paid for the ad i...

Earlier this week Sam Biddle of Gizmodo published How the Hashtag Is Ruining the English Language , decrying the use of hashtags to add add...

Last week at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco , Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talked about recent growth in the service and how iOS5 had cause...

Not quite two years ago in this space I wrote about how I use foursquare . I've continued using the service since then, passing 1,000 ch...

Until this week I thought Twitter would focus on datamining the tweetstream rather than adding features for individual users. I based this ...

In March, 2010 there were 50 million tweets per day . In March, 2011 there were 140 million tweets per day . In May, 2011 there were 155...

Recently Kevin Rose redirected his eponymous domain to his Google+ profile, reflecting that "G+ gives me more (real-time) feedback and...

I've never been happy with the use of a single word to describe associations on a social network , whether that word is "friending...

Twitter introduced Lists about a year and a half ago. When first introduced on twitter.com, Lists were shown in a drop-down menu on the pro...

Search Twitter for the phrase "Right, off to the gym and to listen to the Packetpushers Openflow podcast" I'll wait. Note ...

Yesterday Jesse Stay observed that Twitter and Facebook have both discontinued RSS feeds from various parts of their service. Later that d...

For almost as long as it has existed, people have speculated about premium Twitter accounts as a way to monetize the service. Thus far, no s...

Yesterday Louis Gray posed a set of questions which seem like they should be easy to answer, but aren't. While reading it one of the q...

In the last several days I've noticed a large increase in the rate of bots following me on twitter. It went from perhaps one a day to do...

OneTrueFan is a service to track web history, allowing web users to see what sites they spend the most time visiting. It also allows site o...

Something is wonky with twitter's search function. In May 2010 twitter search started returning results for keywords in the original, u...

I'm currently reading Cognitive Surplus , by Clay Shirky . It builds upon his earlier Here Comes Everybody , detailing how the Internet ...

Yesterday Louis Gray pieced together vague snippets of information from tweets made by the founders and investors of Foursquare and Brizzl...

There is an urban legend that Eskimos have many different words for snow. The truth is the Aleut languages have about as many words for sno...