Working in SoHo has it’s obvious advantages, one of them is bumping into new and interesting people. Dominic Tillson is the man from bebo and conveniently his office is just around the corner from Knitware.

We invited him round for a cup of tea and a chat about the phenomenon that is … the Social Network. read full post »

Social Networks on your mobile phone seems sooo obvious to me now … I can’t believe it hasn’t happened sooner. So when Orange recently announced the completion of an agreement with MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo (amongst overs) to allow mobile access … I nearly all my contacts and followed it up with a ‘poke’ for good measure. read full post »

Earlier this year, I thought Facebook was amazing. I updated my profile every day, sometimes many times a day. I was visiting 10 or 20 every day. I was adding billions of applications, biting chumps and poking my friends. Briefly, it became an obsession.

It wasn’t just me. There was a time in summer 2007 in London when you couldn’t go anywhere without catching the word “Facebook” in bars and pubs and events and public transport and even from groups of people passing you on the street. There was a time, I estimated, when I was hearing just the word “Facebook” about 70-100 times a day. The newspapers were doing a daily Facebook story. It was on telly. It was everywhere.

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