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My Twitter Usage - stats revealed

Philip Wilkinson on May 18, 2008, in Fun, Social Media

I came across a cool tool today that lets you see some interesting stats about your Twitter usage, via: TweetStats

For example, I’m averaging around 26 Tweets a month right now, with Nov being nuts where I posted 73. Mostly I tweet around noon or 4-5pm on wed or thursdays. I was one of the early adopters having used it since Dec 2006! The top people who have often replied to me are @PaulWalsh and @mbites, while the interface I use has been fluctuating with Twhirl probably going to be topping the lot soon:

Now, not stopping there, I wanted to see what the tweet stats of those titans of the Internet UK world @PaulWalsh and @mbites looked like:

As you can see, Paul doesn’t get any work done as he spends his day on Twitter with easily around 700 - 900 tweets / month, spread throughout every day, and even some between 4 and 8am! Dahowlett, aido, and conoro help make up their Irish contingent, and Paul prefers the web interface for twittering.

Now, Mike has a bit of catching up to do, especially as he’s a journalist! An average of only around 255 a month, mostly in the early morning tues-wed. Often just has one-one chats with PaulWalsh and JemimaKiss by the looks of it, and uses Twitterific and the Web to post his tweets.

Ok - must stop now before I get carried away Any Twitter leaderboard anywhere?

The ramifications of the Apple Macbook Air - thin

Philip Wilkinson on Jan 16, 2008, in Fun

You know we like to think of ourselves as a company that filters the wheat from the chaff for you when it comes to product reviews - well, with so much Macworld coverage going on, we thought we’d bring you the single best video of the new Apple Macbook Air:

“Have Apple considered the real ramifications of going thin? All those fat laptops are now going to have a real fat complex as this video shows. Oprah - help them!

A Merry Crowdstorm Christmas

Philip Wilkinson on Dec 22, 2007, in E-Commerce, Entrepreneurship, Fun, Social Media

Have a great holiday and we’ll be back in the new year with a whole heap of announcements. Thanks for everyone’s support this year - we couldn’t have done it without you.

Oh, and remember you can always come to Crowdstorm UK or Crowdstorm USA when you’ve got your gifts and want to tell the world how good or bad they are!

Women overtake men as top gadget shoppers

Philip Wilkinson on Dec 09, 2007, in E-Commerce, Fun

The Sunday Times just published an article on women being the primary buyers this christmas for consumer electronics. It comes via data released by John Lewis saying that “electrical gadgets were more fun for women than ever before and no longer had a male, geeky image.”

Digital radios, iPods and digital photo frames top the list of things they are buying. Now, is this really what is happening or is it that they’re just buying gifts for their other halves - ho ho ho.

The Crowd goes to FOWA

Philip Wilkinson on Oct 02, 2007, in E-Commerce, Entrepreneurship, Fun, Products, Social Media

Both Oli and I will be at the Future of Web Apps on wednesday and thursday this week - so feel free to come and meet us for a coffee or two if you get a chance. Always interested in potential team members or just to talk generally about the business.

Workspace for Startups - well the Crowdstorm one anyway!

Philip Wilkinson on Sep 19, 2007, in Entrepreneurship, Fun

I’ve always wondered about the environments people work in, from the dusty little cubicles people get in big companies to a funky start-up or nomad entrepreneur / freelancer.

With that in mind - here’s a snapshot of the Crowdstorm workspaces (complete with Crowdstorm screenshots):

First up: Phil “two screen and a tree” Wilkinson:

Second: Oli “please don’t show this picture to anyone” Godby:

and lastly: Ryan “rubber duck” Shelton:

We also often work out of our favourite member club AdamStreet quite often - so come join us for a coffee / beer:

And yes - I’ll put them on flickr / facebook…

Crowdstorm on Facebook

Philip Wilkinson on Jul 12, 2007, in E-Commerce, Fun, Products, Social Media

We’ve gone and created ourselves a facebook group for Crowdstorm (bet you thought it was a facebook app there for a minute..!).

It’s an ideal platform for helping to get feedback on the new design and launch features as we start putting them up live. We’ll be using the blog as well so you’ll get a choice of the two, just that Facebook is more interactive and easier to get people to comment.

So please click on the above link or logo and get yourself into our group. You never know we might just announce a small party too

Curry 2.0 with Paul Walsh

Philip Wilkinson on Jul 05, 2007, in Entrepreneurship, Fun

Paul invited me to an event he was organising in Ireland for curry 2.0 in which lots of entrepreneurs get together for a big curry, pitch their one min biz plans, and have a general good discussion and knees up.

It looked like they had a brilliant time and a real shame I had to miss it as we try and scale up Crowdstorm for the beta launch of our evolved product. Paul did do a great write-up on his Segala blog and even put in the video I had specifically recorded for them at the event. In fact paul even put my face and video on his laptop and gave me my own chair and place setting - fantastic!

So, nice one Paul - great idea and event.

Friday Code Monkey

Philip Wilkinson on Feb 23, 2007, in Fun

For those of you developing away on the last day of the week after a really buzzy time in London - chill and relax to this great song and video “Code Monkey”.. It had me in stitches..