Bloggers have something of a reputation for being sad losers who post their opinions into an online echo chamber when they could be outside in the fresh air kicking a football around with the other kids. Yes, many of the blogs out there have more value to the author than they do to any audience [...]
While parts of the world are aiming for super-fast internet connections way beyond most people’s imaginations, our sights are set much lower here in the UK. South Korea is aiming for insanely fast 1 Gigabit connections within the next three years while our government is struggling to get everyone up to a pedestrian 2 Megabits [...]
Creating and Sharing with a Mobile Phone: a presentation
Mar 04 2009
Posted by Martin as Manchester Social Media Cafe, Mobile Phones, Twitter
Last night saw the latest meeting of Manchester’s Social Media Cafe. We kicked off with a talk from Mario Cacciotolo of Someone Once Told Me who traveled up from London to tell us about how his cult site came about. Mario also took some photos for a ‘Manchester Week’ on Someone Once Told Me. Many [...]
A Nokia Netbook could work… but is it too late?
Feb 27 2009
Posted by Martin as Internet, Mobile Phones
Edinburgh’s most excitable blogger, Ewan Spence, posted an enthusiastic piece on All About Symbian this morning suggesting that it really would be a good idea if Nokia released a netbook. His argument is that a Nokia netbook would give the company’s range of Ovi-branded web services the boost they need to achieve mainstream adoption.
There’s no [...]
Last month I uncovered how the Twitter username ‘BBC’ was fooling people into believe it was an official BBC News feed when in actual fact it was being run by a third party. This wasn’t really a problem until they insulted someone who believed they were contacting the BBC via the account. You can read [...]
Over the weekend a storm in a teacup raged over Techcrunch’s claim that Last.fm had given data to the RIAA to allow the music industry body to identify which users of the service had been listening to illegally obtained copies of the new U2 album ahead of release.
Remember I wrote about how Sony had badly [...]
No matter how many times ‘The Man’ tries to control the way people use the internet, the people always kick back. One area that’s always trying to be controlled is access to illegally distributed entertainment via P2P networks and BitTorrent. Just today the Swedish kings of online filesharing, The Pirate Bay, got a big boost [...]
Everyone who’s ever been within ten miles of an internet connection knows about Spam. If you’ve got an email address you’ll almost certainly have received some Spam at some point. Chances are you’ve received a ton of the stuff and it irritates you on a daily basis. If you’re a blogger though, you’ll be even [...]
Forget Latitude, Bliin is the best location app you’ve never heard of
Feb 05 2009
Posted by Martin as Internet, Mobile Phones
This week much has been made of Google’s new Latitude service that allows you to share your current location with your Gmail contacts using the latest version of Google Maps For Mobile. While there has been a lot of hype (such as ReadWriteWeb’s piece here) it’s a simple but useful service that probably won’t gain [...]
It seems that whenever a great, internet-based music service comes along that captures the public’s imagination it’s not long before it disappears again thanks for music industry short-sightedness. Muxtape was music/tech darling of last year, allowing people to create mixtapes of online music to share with others. In August it was closed down while it [...]
