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TwitterOnce again I’m sticking to the two biggest stories in tech over the last week, as they both cover off so much. Buying Into Youth As if it wasn’t enough spending millions of dollars on an app built by a 17…
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Ciarán Norris blogs about music, media and much ado about nothing
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A Week’s A Long Time #14
Tagged with: acquisition, google, Google Glasses, Google I/O, Google Maps, Google Now, Tumblr, Yahoo
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A Week’s A Long Time #13
No Place Like Home When Facebook launched Home, its super-app, many people (me included) suggested that thay had done so to get the benefit of having their own phone and operating system, but without the hassle or cost of building…
A Week’s A Long Time #12
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so let’s start by looking at how pictures can be worth a billion dollars… Picture Of Health? This week saw Facebook release an important update to Instagram, the photo app that…
A Week’s A Long Time #11
A relatively quiet week in tech, but nonetheless one with a few interesting stories pointing at the direction that the industry, and the world, is going in. Google’s New Reader Not that long ago Google announced its plans to close…
Tagged with: Amazon, apple, EU, FTC, google, legislation, Microsoft, Samsung, Yahoo
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#lestweforget
Today, April 25th, is ANZAC Day here in Australia and in New Zealand. The date commemorates the first day that the combined forces of the two countries (hence ANZAC) went into battle at Gallipoli in the First World War. As…
Tagged with: ANZAC Day, Gallipoli, Keith Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, World War 1, World War 2
Posted in History
Posted in History
A Week’s A Long Time #10
Back after a well earned break, I’m going to have another bash at providing a weekly round-up of tech, media & marketing. Tweet As… Twitter had a busy week, launching a new product and two updates to its ad systems.…
Tagged with: apple, crowdsourcing, facebook, Facebook Home, google, journalism, reddit, Twitter, Twitter #Music
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Why I Hate The ‘C’ Word, Part 2
Last week I wrote about how I’m increasingly finding that the word community is being used in ways that I find annoying, if not downright offensive. As if to prove this point, over the weekend a number of ‘community spokespeople’…
Posted in Advertising, Uncategorized
Comment Spam About Comment Spam
A concerned individual just left this comment on one of my posts: Should people would like to gain backlinks then they really should at the very least have the sense to write a themed and thorough reply. All comment spam…
Why I Hate The ‘C’ Word, Part 1
If you haven’t heard about the goings on at the dev conference Pycon, you’ve obviously been pretty divorced from the day to day buzz of the tech-goldfish bowl. For those who have been spared the ins and outs of it,…
Nothing Crap About Educating People
So, earlier this month, Facebook revealed that laptops belonging to its staff had been infected by malware. Whilst Facebook was adamant that no user data had been compromised, a large number of publications saw fit to cover the story. Which…
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