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Month: August 2008

  • Tweetrush

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTweetrush is based on the rushhour engine and aims at providing information on the volume of tweets that are sent every hour of the day. At the present 800,000 tweets are sent a day. That’s an average of 33,300 an hour. I only tweet at about 86 (not 200) a day…

  • Seesmicing from anywhere

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI like to seesmic but there’s no way I want to be stuck in one place without moving around. It’s more fun when you see people aren’t in a desk situation. Here are four places from which to seesmic and make things more interesting. Seesmic from here. The Lake Side Yet…

  • GMdesk as a fun Air App

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteGmail, google Calendar and google maps are part of our daily workflow. As a result of this we have them running in two or three tabs at all times. Switching between tabs within a browser can be time consuming but not between applications. That’s where Adobe Air and GMDesk come in.…

  • I took hundreds of pictures today so that I could play with photosynth.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst it has been over two years since I last had a windows laptop today I took hundreds of pictures to play with Photosynth, a photo combining piece of software that runs on your machine before being uploaded to the web. The idea is a simple one. Take as many pictures…

  • Jaiku is moving to the Google App engine

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteJaiku is about as old as twitter but rather than expand and get two million users it was bought by google some months ago. This weekend the service has been unavailable and the reason for this is that they’re moving from the old finnish server to the google App engine. Pat…

  • A nice surprise

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday’s top recommended story on Newsgator, one of my posts.

  • A quick round up of twitter to SMS services for Europe co.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo weeks after twitter gave up on Europe here are a number of services you can try out. TweetSMS This service should be launching this weekend and some people are already testing the service 3jam It’s up and running but requires for you to pay via paypal rather than Visa or…

  • Via Qik to Seesmic – Fire coverage

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    Reading Time: < 1 minute[qik] Incendio en fábrica cerca de mi casa Fire coverage from Qik to Seesmic, interesting to see this particular video. It’s showing the power of the new media model. The original footage.

  • I miss the old twitter.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver a year ago I started using twitter and it had great promise. The public timeline was so slow that I would refresh it and there would be no new comment for minutes at a time. The service would auto refresh from the website and the community was small. The @…

  • For a laugh – The EEE PC and a dell desktop keyboard

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI really enjoy using the EEE PC but there is one tiny flaw, the keyboard is to small to do any real typing. That’s why when I got home I plugged in a spare keyboard and mouse from a desktop and started to type. It works really well. No problems detecting…