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Foursquare Check-ins Around the World

Foursquare Check-ins Around the World

Sep 21, 2011

I remember first speaking to a colleague about foursquare. I was particularly excited about it but was having a hard time explaining it. “What’s in it for me?” he said. “Well … as well as finding out what’s good near you, you get badges and mayorships and …” “Badges and mayorships? What do they give...

US Earthquake Video by Twitter

US Earthquake Video by Twitter

Aug 28, 2011

Following the almighty east coast earthquake in the US (sorry, I swear that’s all the piss-taking I’ll do in this post), Twitter have released a great video that shows just how fast Twitter is. Entitled “Twitter, faster than earthquakes”, it’s a video that’s been put together to show that Twitter was faster than the earthquake...

Online Advertising on News Websites

Online Advertising on News Websites

Jun 17, 2011

Our generation is lucky enough to be experiencing some incredible changes in the way that we interact with each other. More and more people are spending more and more time online consuming information. We use the Internet to catch up with friends and family, do our shopping, book our holidays and find out how big the latest aftershock was. The Internet is also...

Facebook Friend Matrix

Facebook Friend Matrix

Jun 8, 2011

A clever new Facebook app seems to be suddenly taking off on Facebook. The Facebook Friend Matrix is a third party app (i.e. one that is not developed by Facebook themselves) that provides a great conversation piece. Once you connect to the app and allow it access to your Facebook account, it works out which of your friends you interact with the most and...

Oops… you need a Google profile to use this feature

Oops… you need a Google profile to use this feature

Jun 3, 2011

A message that people will be seeing a lot more of is this: Oops… you need a Google profile to use this feature Google profiles is not available for your organization This is a direct result of the launch of Google’s new ‘plus one’ (+1) feature that launched yesterday. +1 is Google’s answer to social sharing. It’s their...

Custom Photographics … Sucks

Custom Photographics … Sucks

May 12, 2011

Update: If you’re actually looking for some quality New Zealand photographers, check out the new post on top wedding photographers in New Zealand. Want to read about this chap instead? Carry on … After much deliberation, I’ve called this post ‘Custom Photographic … Sucks’. It could just as easily have been called ‘Man...