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Management speak: Can you run that up the flagpole?
Blue sky thinking only leads to brain pain
Nothing annoys me more than management speak, the often meaningless and over-complicated drivel uttered by managers in meetings. All the journalists I know find it tricky to decipher, as if the speaker was trying to obfuscate and perplex the listener.Words...
December 9, 2010 9:30 AM Read Full Post
Facebook clears up iPhone app Contact Sync hype
"Users do need to invest some time in order to use it properly"
Yesterday I wrote a blog about the Facebook Contact Sync feature for iPhone, which syncs the contact details of everyone on your iPhone and matches them to your Facebook friends. The blog referenced a number of media reports, including this...
October 7, 2010 3:56 PM Read Full Post
Facebook iPhone app shares all your phone numbers
Contact Sync app takes numbers from your iPhone and pushes them to Facebook servers
Update: Facebook has since responded to this story. Due to the length of their response, you can read it in full on this new post. Facebook is, once again, embroiled in a privacy mess: The social network is reportedly publishing your...
October 6, 2010 3:22 PM Read Full Post
Best of the web: Epic fails, the origin of the universe and iPhone gets buried
If you only read one article today, make it one of these.
Here's my pic of the best of the web this week.For tech startups and economic theorists:Startup-Russia blog looks at the mechanics behind Silicon Valley failures, an environment where nine out of ten startups are likely to fail. From the blog:"The...
September 14, 2010 1:21 PM Read Full Post
New Digg vs old Digg, Old Dogg and new tricks
Can Digg survive the user revolt?
Digg has launched version 4 (v4)of its popular social news website to much derision across the web.New Digg has borrowed a few ideas from Facebook and Twitter, introducing the ability to follow friends. Along with Top News, the New Digg...
September 3, 2010 4:54 PM Read Full Post
Tweetup is in the dictionary, chillax
Oxford English Dictionary gets down with the Web 2.0 kids
Tweetup, a meeting arranged through Twitter, is one of more than 2,000 new words and phrases welcomed into the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest edition. This latest edition is compiled from analysis of two billion words in usage, including...
August 24, 2010 3:31 PM Read Full Post
How women (like me) are shaping the Web, supposedly
Facebook, Twitter and blogs and social retail therapy
More women than men visit social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and spend 30% more time per month using them, according to Internet research firm comScore. The research firm studied the Internet habits of women across the world,...
July 29, 2010 3:52 PM Read Full Post
Steve Jobs fake 'relax' iPhone 4 email serves a lesson about online journalism
Apple PR have dismissed reports of a recent email exchange between Apple chief Steve Jobs and a concerned iPhone 4 customer as fake. The exchange was first published on The Boy Genius Report (BGR) and then quickly published around...
July 2, 2010 4:30 PM Read Full Post
Apple, New York Times and the case of the yo-yoing Pulse app
A popular iPad application called Pulse News Reader, developed by two students at the Stanford Institute of Design, has been at the centre of a media storm this week. Pulse works like a fancy RSS reader, by collecting and...
June 9, 2010 5:18 PM Read Full Post
LEGO Printer says Hello World
A member of the B3ta forums, who goes by the name of Squirrelfantasy, has built a working printer out of LEGO parts, which uses felt tips pens instead of ink cartridges. From his description on YouTube: "The 'Lego felt...
June 4, 2010 4:06 PM Read Full Post
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