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…
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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 #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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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…
A Week’s A Long Time Vol. 7
Once again, a week here is more like a fortnight. I was on holiday last week and couldn’t drag myself away from the pool to jot down any thoughts on the latest developments in tech. But this week, I hope…
Tagged with: Adidas, facebook, Instagram, journalism, Nike, Oddbins, Paddy Power, Publishing, Specsavers, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The New York Times, Twitter
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A Week’s A Long Time Vol. 6
Well, what a week it’s been. Apart from bankers proving, once and for all, as if we really needed the proof, that they really do match up to their Cockney rhyming slang name, The Stone Roses returned and were, if…
Tagged with: Amazon, blackberry, facebook, google, RIM, smartphones, tablets, YouView
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The Guardian Likes Facebook
I just popped over to The Guardian site and noticed a bar running along the top of the page encouraging me to log in to The Guardian using Facebook, presumably based on my usage of their existing Facebook app. I’m…
Tagged with: facebook, open graph, social graph, social networks, The Guardian
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A Week’s A Long Time Vol. 2
So, that was quite a week. I mean, the temperature here in Dublin actually broke the 20 degree barrier. Oh, you mean that other stuff? Well, let’s have a look at the main issues in tech, and what they might…
A Week’s A Long Time Vol. 1
So, I was chatting to my friend and former colleague Mark Hadfield today and he was asking me which sites I used to keep up to date with digital & tech news. After listing off a few, he suggested that…
The Big Society & (Facebook) GroupThink
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H.L. Mencken In the run up to this year’s election David Cameron spent a lot of time talking about Big…
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