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December 22, 2011
by Neil T
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How safe is your data on free services?

Last week’s post about Delicious and Pinboard got me thinking. Pinboard has a clear business model – everyone pays to use it. Delicious’ business model is not so clear – there’s no advertising or premium accounts available. So how does … Continue reading

September 28, 2011
by Neil T
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This is a bonus post for today, consider yourselves lucky…

So today is Positive Bradford Day – “a giant showcase for all that’s good about Bradford”. So I posted to Facebook, Twitter and Google+ the message ‘Happy Positive Bradford Day!’.

  • On Facebook, 5 of my friends liked it, but no comments
  • On Twitter, nobody replied, favourited or re-tweeted it
  • On Google+, I had 2 derisory comments, one from a friend and one from some random stranger in Bradford (it was set to be publicly viewable)

Make of that what you will.