Some of you maybe glad to hear or possibly sad to hear that I AM NOT moving to America to work with Twitter – It’s an April fools! Haha Gotcha!

This said it’s a nice lesson in friends, expectations and belief that we can all take from.

It’s really made me smile throughout the day that many of my friends are not actually shocked to hear such great things! That’s a lesson for us all. It’s good to aim high and nothing is ever out of reach! Not for anyone, always bare that in mind and aim for your goals, anything is possible!

Thanks to all who wished me well, special shouts to Wio (email) and Charlotte (Facebook) who got it straight away! As I said I’m staying put to be the coolest geek on the net!… lol However if Twitter are reading this then I’m open to offers! Although it’d have to be a good one to beat the deal I’ve got at the moment! lol

As for the Playboy Mansion party?!… Ahhhh if only, but trust me on this one! The next post I write on the Playboy Mansion WILL be about me attending! And that’s not a wind up! Believe me, watch this space…

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I’ve been a bit cold on the blogging scene recently but I’ve been very busy, nevertheless I though I’d keep you all up to date as to why I’ve been keeping a bit quiet busy… I’ve landed yet another job! Climbing this work ladder is easier than I thought! lol

This time a pretty huge relocation is in order! I’m off to the land of the free and home of the…. fast food! Yes that’s right folks! I’m off to the good old US of A! I landed a job with everyone’s favorite little hyped up dickey bird micro blogging platform – Twitter! I’ll be relocating to the United States in the next few weeks! I really loved my time in London, short and tweet sweet, but times change, things move on and of course, I’m really looking forward to this huge upheaval!

I’ll be joining the marketing team @Twitter, and I’ll looking at ways forward for Twitter as a business to develop, I will be helping develop the site along side the marketing plan and business model! Sure, there’s a long road ahead but I know it’s the right path. Have no fear, I will remain the Coolest Geek on the Net! And I will maintain this blog tracking my move over to the United States! After chatting to the guys, I’m especially looking forward to the Twitter staff party, as rumor has it we’re all heading to the Playboy Mansion for a champagne pool party! Suits me!

Don’t wanna miss that one! Don’t worry! I’ll be taking my camera! You won’t wanna miss that blog post trust me!!! Follow my journey into Tweety land! – @Swimace and wish me luck!

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The Google Chrome internet browser has just received an update with the “beta” version of Google Chrome. This looks very interesting indeed and boasts an impressive 25%-35% speed increase however, it will take a lot to part me from my beloved Firefox, especially with all my customised SEO add ons, multiple profile set ups and the amazing GreaseMonkey script tool.

That said Chrome certainly seems as though it is on the right path to mass market usage and attracting many more users.

This “split screen” ability for example is a fantastic option that seems to have been “borrowed” from what I’ve seen Windows 7 do. It’s a great idea as the hype that users create from Windows 7 having the ability of being able to do this may push users that are still on Vista or XP to use chrome so the are not missing out on the “split screen fun”. That said i’d always recommend dual screen, especially for any SEO Analysis’s or Engineers out there! Dual screen will increase your productivity. Either way the new Chrome looks exciting and definitely worth a spin, that said have a guess what browser I’m writing this on

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The news seems to be full of Twitter at the moment! I think I’ll add a few more Twitter bits and pieces to my blog during the course of the next few days keeping an ear to the ground on the latest developments of Twitter and the “Twitter Search” platform. Keep an eye out on my blog, let me know if you find anything interesting and check back for updates… enjoy!

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This morning there was yet more publicity on the popular short text service “Twitter” if you don’t yet know what Twitter is, where have you been this past year?! This service seems to be taking the world by storm and has plenty more potential up its sleeve; however the reviews in the magazine “Shortlist” (a free London publication given out at tube stations) seemed to be less than optimistic with Twitter and its potential for success focusing more on its gimmicky side.

The reviews in Shortlist were written by Tech columnist at the Guardian, Paul Carr and Brent Hoberman founder of lastminute.com. Guardian doesn’t have a twitter account, which is strange to me as most of the main newspapers do? And lastminute.com is more like “lastdecade.com”, that said they had some interesting reports on the twitter business model and came to the conclusion where will it go now? And how will Twitter make money?

My current feeling is that with the idea of integrating Twitter into some form of search platform will establish the future within internet search. Real time search supported by a form of solid indexed search will be the next steps in my opinion.

Twitter is a search engine (the test).

I integrated the current twitter search results within my Google browser though a Greasemonkey script in Firefox. (I’ll explain how in a later video blog). The link and post on how to do this is available at mt-hacks.com

The results of this test have been incredible. It reminds me of the 1st time I used Google many moons ago before the trillions of spammy pages were indexed and when AskJeeves.com ruled UK search.

Over the three days I’ve been using the add on, each and every search I have ran so far on a specific niche has returned the best results in Twitter not Google. This in my opinion beats any of the “static” Google results pages in terms of both content and relevance.

My Twitter Search example

I realised how powerful this actually is when I wanted to step up my twittering. My Facebook account was linked to my twitter account, so each time I updated my status on Twitter, all of my Facebook friends were getting annoyed notified though a Facebook update.

Being Coolest Geek on the Net I really wanted to tweet about topics and issues that I knew would drive some of my “normal” Facebook friends crazy so I wanted some way of filtering what tweets update my Facebook updates.

I ran a long tail search in Google in the hope something might come up. This is my normal course of action when running a “niche” search. I then see what results are returned and retarget my search relative to the results.

My search was

“Separate my Facebook and twitter status update but keep them linked”

As you can see, long tail, the Google results were vague and uninteresting, not specific to what I wanted but sure enough the Twitter results were a totally different story!

Twitter showed me results on was what other people were looking for at that moment in time and after just one search I found the application “Selective Twitter Status” from the top twitter result.

This is not to say I’d not have found this program elsewhere with a bit of in depth searching but the point it, I didn’t need to! Twitter returned the results I wanted over anything Google had to offer! Twitter was my search engine!

The Twitter searching went on throughout the week and each time I’ve found more interesting and relevant results in Twitter search.

Twitter Search Engine Outcome

This is not to write off Google! Even though Eric Schmidt referred Twitter to a “poor mans email system” but I think everyone is overlooking (or playing down) the potential.

This really does highlight the forward path for search and I have to disagree with the writers of the Shortlist column. To think linearly about what this technology has to offer not the way forward it’s not simply that people will have to receive ads though Twitter. This is a very old advertising thought process.

Why not allow “the people” to build the content of the search engine and then monetize the search engine results pages just like Google do? Twitter Real Time Search Engine – This in my opinion for the future of Twitter.

Follow me on Twitter @Swimace

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I hope you like my new site design, there are lots and lots on new goodies included in the all new version of OlliesBlog.com It’s official too, i’m now the Coolest Geek on the Net! Well official on this website anyway! But who knows, maybe it’s true globally! Please leave a comment and let me know what you think of the new design.

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computing post just to add the computing category

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a post on style simply to add the catagory

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I am currently looking for full time employment, I would love for my job to involve blogging as I have a real passion for writing reviews and posting informative articles.

As I have currently been looking for full time employment my blog has slipped by the wayside and needs a few tweeks here and there but I will do this all in good time.

PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYERS please navigate towards my reviews on items such as the iPod Shuffle I bought on eBay, and also my reviews on web 2.0 technology and mobile phone technology.

These are available in the category sections to the right—————–>

ipod review – under Reviews section.

Web 2.0 & Mobile Reviews – under 500 Word Responses Category.

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- BBC THREE – 8pm – TOMORROW NIGHT – 29th October 2007 -

OH MY GOD…. hahahaha I was lucky

I was asked to come down and be on the show through my “MySpace” account which is pretty nice!

Had Tamara Beckwith cut my hair today in Celebrity Scissor Hands!

It was an all right job on my hair cut to be honest! Doesn’t really look any different to how it was before!

BUT OH MY GOD the guy’s hair she cut yesterday just before mine! I ONLY JUST saw it on TV…. She TOTALLY BUTCHERED HIM!!! HAHAHAHA

He had chunks missing! HAHAHAHA I guess I got a lucky escape!

CooL…… phew, If I’d have seen that before going I’ve have pulled out a no show lol!!!!!

Anyway I’m not sure how much of me they’ll show on the program as I just took the piss out of Tamara the whole time and had a good laugh.

Tamara was cool and it was good fun, and it was a good laugh, and hey it’s all for charity so why not…

Enjoy

Ollie

- BBC THREE – 8pm – TOMORROW NIGHT – 29th October 2007 -

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