Business, Communication, Technology
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If you’re an art lover who owns an iPhone or iPod Touch, you will rejoice today as you can visit the Musée du Louvre in Paris right on your device, wherever you happen to be.
The museum just launched an iPhone app that offers a glimpse into the rich works of art and other treasures you [...]
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This is one of the simplest yet most useful measurement tools for Twitter I’ve yet seen: TweetReach, discovered via a tweet by David Terrar earlier today.
What TweetReach does is calculate how many people have seen something you, or anyone else, has tweeted. It connects to Twitter via an API and searches what’s there to [...]
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A new version of WordPress was released last week and I’ve upgraded this blog to that version, 2.8.5. As always, I followed my 6 tips to upgrading WordPress to ensure a smooth and trouble-free upgrade.
The WordPress developers say that 2.8.5 is a hardening release as it tightens up on some security areas. As with [...]
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Reading Robin Wauters’ review in TechCrunch yesterday of three nifty iPhone news apps, one especially caught my attention (Robin said it was ‘awesome’): ZenNews from UK company Zensify. I’m trying it out.
ZenNews is a free app that aggregates news from a variety of sources, presenting you with tag clouds like these examples from BBC News, [...]
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Yesterday, the broadband internet service into my home office that I receive from Virgin Media was upgraded from 20Mb (what Virgin calls its XL service) to the latest 50Mb (XXL in Virgin parlance).
The first thing you do when doing anything to your net connection is to try and find out how fast it is. [...]
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“Trouble” is an apt word to apply to the kerfuffle that Pepsi has become embroiled in over an iPhone app created to promote its AMP energy drink brand in the United States.
"AMP Up Before You Score" is a free app you install on your iPhone or iPod Touch that lets you select from 24 [...]
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What if you could “video tweet” natively in your Twitter account instead of or in addition to the short text messages you currently send when you use Twitter?
According to a report in the Telegraph today, video will soon be coming to Twitter.
Twitter to introduce live video-tweeting
Twitter users may soon be posting real-time video tweets [...]
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A new technology tool that started rolling out during the past week is Google Wave, what Google dryly describes as “an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration.”
It’s got a lot of people articulating a lot of opinions, pro and con.
The Google Wave website contains a wealth of information explaining Google Wave including a [...]
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As the news spotlight shone brightly on Twitter yesterday – the company announced a new injection of $100 million in more venture funding – market researcher Hitwise published some new stats about Twitter’s growth.
Hitwise’s data, measuring visits in the US to the Twitter website – which accounts for some 90% of all Twitter visits [...]
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Apple released an updated version 3.1 of the operating system for iPhone two weeks ago which brings some great new functionality.
It also brings some not-so-great instability and bugs, it seems, certainly what I’ve experienced a couple of times since that OS upgrade.
After my iPhone just totally died for a while this evening, I tweeted [...]
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