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  • First London Twitter Meetup In a Week

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn a week’s time the first London twitter meetup will take place at Ishtar. For more information go here. Twitter is a text-based discussion that takes place 140 characters at a time via messenger, web, mobile phones, and browsers. It’s better simply to try twitter and see how people are using…

  • New Site of Interest and Old Site To Avoid For A Few Days

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnce more facebook is down due to site maintenance and it’s making me think that it’s time to move onto another site for a number of days until they sort everything out. That’s where Tubemogul comes in, a video sharing website. Whilst it has hardly anything to do with Facebook Tubemogul…

  • Facebook Is Down

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSocial networking websites should never be down because their success comes from three factors; ease of use, accessibility, and reliability. With a good layout and good interaction, the website attracts the novice as well as the weather-beaten web surfer that’s seen it all. Accessibility is about it being easy to use on…

  • Half a Million Visitors

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the past year, over half a million visits have been counted to this website. Over the past five months over fifty thousand visits, a month took place. For the period in question, there have been almost two million hits and  58 gigabytes of data transfer.

  • Map Your Friends – Facebook Api

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs I was looking through the applications I found an application that helps to map your friends according to the geolocation details they added to their profile. As your social network is more global so you will find that your friends are more spread around the world. As you’ll see for…

  • The Digital Lifestyle

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA journalism student at the University of Westminster worked on an item about addiction to technology and this is quite an old item. In 1998 (if I remember correctly) I was speaking to a security guard in Martinique about the internet and he talked about it as if it was a disease…

  • There Are Two Parts To The World Wide Web

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesthe future of the web the search engine was the king, now it’s social networking. People had their own home page, now it’s grown to their own website. The blog was grown and grown, replacing webrings to be developed For several years the search engine was king. This was the place where…

  • People From The Past

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSince I started using the world wide web one thing has become clear over the past year. The web has become personal. We have seen a migration from a worldwide web of strangers where everyone is hiding behind an avatar to a worldwide web where no one is hiding behind an avatar,…

  • Four Reasons to be Happy

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are four reasons to be happy today. The first of these is that my MBP is finally in Geneva therefore it is a short matter of days before I get it into my hands and start playing with the computer and the new software. The laptop will be used for all…

  • Trying Out Drupal

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve just spent at least two hours playing around with drupal. I was working on bit by bit and actually had a case where I had to RTFM. Over the past few hours, I was trying to understand why I couldn’t place the blocks where I wanted. Finally, I found out.…