Welcome to the second installment in the Slideschool Series: Twitter explained.

This presentation takes you through the basics of why Twitter is such an important communication tool and how you go about making the most of the service.

In a nutshell, these are the main features of Twitter:

• Stripped down blogging: no titles, categories and only 120 characters of text. Why? So it’s easy to produce and easy to read quickly,…

Welcome to this first post in the Slideschool Series. The aim of this series is to uncover and explain web services and applications that have a major part to play in our evolving online existence.

First off is Friendfeed.

Friendfeed is a nifty tool for keeping track of all your online activity - whether you blog, post pictures on Flickr, add videos to YouTube, Twitter away…