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  • Sportstracker has been improved.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I was pleasantly surprised after racketing in the mountains to discover that my phone’s battery had not depleted. I was using sportstracker for over two hours and some charge was still left after an hour and a half. There was so much battery left in fact I went for nine…

  • Scriptfrenzy – The challenge

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRemember when I wrote 50,000 words in one month? Today’s challenge is a little different. From tomorrow, and for the next 30 days I will have the task of writing 100 pages for a script within 30 days. That’s about three pages a day and it shouldn’t be too hard. I’ve…

  • The re-tweet is an easy way to pretend you’re listening.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA lot of people love the re-tweet because they believe that it is a fast and effective way to tell both their followers on twitter as well as the person being retweeted that they are listening or that they thought this was a interesting point. This is true in a number of…

  • Social media as a lifestyle choice, rather than a stop gap

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the biggest ironies of the social media is that those whose profession it is to get brands and companies to set up a presence within the social media environment themselves see it as a waste of time, and no substitute for what most people would refer to as real life,…

  • A “Transcribe this” button for seesmic videos

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSomething I would love to see on Seesmic, and which would encourage me to use it more is a “transcribe this” button for when I record certain videos. The logic is simple. Sometimes we discuss things that we would like to see discussed but not everyone wants to listen to us…

  • Dear twitter friends…

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDear twitter friends I have deleted my main account due to tired I am with twitter and it’s poor performance. I am in other places. I’ll catch you there.

  • Recommending my twitter friends with MrTweet

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst I listened to MrTweet speaking on the Net@Nite podcast from several month ago I found it interesting that he spoke of the re-tweet as giving credit to those you follow who share some interesting links. If you spend a lot of time on twitter though after seeing the same retweet…

  • Twitalyser

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteGenerated by Twitalyzer If you were thinking of following me on twitter then this may help change your mind, or on the contrary encourage you. You may notice my generosity is zero. That’s because I don’t like RT as I think they pollute the timeline. By the same opportunity I have…

  • Yet another reason to love Google Latitude

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I met a friend in geneva. The one that uses Google Latitude. I used my mobile phone to see where he was and just using cell towers I got a pretty good fix on where he was, within just a few hundred meters. When I called him to get a…

  • Unfortunate choice of words for a Water Charity event

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteInternational World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. “After the Twestival hangover, how much money was raised for charity:water?” Source There are some events I don’t feel are really…