June 8, 2012
by Neil T
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Timehop is a fun web site that sends you an email each day with what you did one year ago, using information from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Instagram, and, optionally, your SMS messages from your iPhone or Android phone. You get … Continue reading
April 11, 2012
by Neil T
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Since the news of Facebook buying Instagram for $1billion broke a little under 48 hours ago, every tech commentator and his dog have chipped in their thoughts. On the off chance that you haven’t had enough opinions, here’s mine. On … Continue reading
December 22, 2011
by Neil T
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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
December 8, 2011
by Neil T
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On Monday, Gowalla announced that the two co-founders of Gowalla and several of its staff were moving to Facebook shortly and that the service would be closing sometime in January. Having formally launched at SxSW 2009, the site will therefore … Continue reading
November 7, 2011
by Neil T
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I haven’t mentioned much about Klout on here – it’s a site which uses your social media profiles (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.) to measure your influence. Its aim is to score how much influence people have, and then use that … Continue reading
November 1, 2011
by Neil T
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Since Google+ launched some months ago, Facebook has had to do a bit of catching up to match it, in terms of the privacy controls. Google+ encourages you to put all of your friends into certain ‘circles’, and comes with … 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!’.
Make of that what you will.
September 27, 2011
by Neil T
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Despite my criticisms of Google+ last week, I hope it does well. In fact, the recent changes to Facebook have made me all the more hopeful. I’m not happy with Facebook’s decision to remove the option to view the news … Continue reading
September 21, 2011
by Neil T
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I’ve written about Google+ a few times before, mostly in a critical sense. I do believe that the site is over-hyped for what it is, and it has a long way to go before it’s competing with the likes of … Continue reading
September 8, 2011
by Neil T
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A couple of weeks ago I focussed on the huge number of new features that Foursquare had rolled out in a four week period. Things have quietened down a bit since then – although there has been an updated Android … Continue reading