This is in no way ‘new’ news as StumbleUpon (SU) has been around since 2001. Although unlike many other community-based sites the take up has not been as rapid - after four years Facebook has 63million active users compared to SU’s 5.5million.
Having said that, SU is unlike other community-based sites. Like all good sites, [...]
There are so many blog posts today with the iPhone launch in Australia tomorrow that I won’t waste too much time on this (having a busy day!)…but thought there might be a few people out there wondering when we’re going to get confirmation on pricing for the iPhone.
Gizmodo managed to get screen grabs of Vodafone’s [...]
I watched a great doco on SBS last night (from the BBC), ‘Bill Gates:How A Geek Changed The World‘ and it was interesting to hear some of the discussions around the future of Microsoft, given Google’s positioning with cloud computing.
What do people generally think about entrusting personal or confidential business data to the ‘clouds’?!
There are [...]
If you haven’t heard the buzz on QR Codes already, there will be half a million Telstra customer handsets with QR Code readers on their mobile phones from July 1, so it’s now a reality in Australia & the other carriers will most likely follow suit if it takes off like it has in Japan.
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I came across a fascinating blog post on seomoz.org the other day ‘The Evil Side of Google‘, have a read as it details the methods Google uses to capture data as well as listing what Google does with all that data. Some eye opening reading.
When you read the list of Google acquisitions, you start to [...]
With more and more social technologies allowing us to monitor every minute of our friends and enemies lives, is anyone concerned we’re opening ourselves up to too much transparency?
Fortunately this new application hasn’t yet launched in Australia, but have a look at Dirt Search, which searches public records data in the US. i obviously couldn’t [...]
More...I’ve just checked out this new site Filtrbox, which sounded like a brilliant concept as it allows you to monitor new media news, blogs, keywords, marketing effectiveness and more all in the one interface.
It’s a bit like FriendFeed, Google Alerts or Google Reader, but with more advanced tools.
I’m not sure if it’s just me, or [...]
Here’s an interesting extension on Twitter.
Members on Fuzz’s new service Blip.fm can search for MP3s and embed them in their posts.
A clever way to bring the music community of artists and fans closer together.
If you haven’t seen any of British PM, Gordon Brown’s Twitters yet, have a read http://twitter.com/DowningStreet
You can read what the PM is doing 24/7 & on July 3rd, live webchats with Health Minister, Lord Darzi are publicised.
Politics web 2.0-style!