This morning I received a message on Twitter from one of the few people I follow on the messaging service that I knew before I signed up. Gary Williams (AKA Sputnik101) is a London-based charity boss, environmental activist and music fan. This morning he was shocked to discover that the BBC appeared to have responded [...]
The UK radio market is in a state of flux. Ask an optimist and they’ll say it’s just ‘adjusting’ to the recession-hit economy. Ask a pessimist and they’ll say that radio is in terminal decline. As advertising revenues from traditional radio fall, station bosses at commercial stations are cutting corners by ditching presenters and networking [...]
Tonight I feel like I have a huge weight taken off my mind. Over the past few days I’ve been engaged in an exercise of Zen-like realignment. Yes, I’ve been tidying up my email inbox. That might not sound particularly significant but then you don’t know quite how disorganised my inbox was!
I’ve been a Gmail [...]
Amongst all the dross on TV over Christmas there were some real gems. BBC One’s Christmas Day evening lineup was particularly good. I ended up watching it from Doctor Who at 6pm right through to the end of the Blackadder documentary at 11.30. The problem is that it isn’t always Christmas and now we’re into [...]
When I was 16 I went on a school trip to France. It was a memorable time for me; it was the first time I’d been away from home without my parents and not been painfully homesick and the first school trip when I actually had fun. I took a lot of pictures while I [...]
As a regular Twitter user I’ve often wished that more of my friends would use it. It’s great to have access to the thoughts (and, occasionally, attention) of lots of interesting people in the Twitter-sphere but sometimes I want my friends to be tweeting their thoughts too. Why can’t they see the value in it?
Converting [...]
Nearly a year after they launched it in the USA, Amazon finally launched the UK version of their MP3 store at the start of December. When the store launched in the States it gained lots of press coverage thanks to the fact that a major retailer was selling DRM-free MP3s of mainstream music for the [...]
Mobile apps won’t kill shops, but they will force change
Dec 10 2008
Posted by Martin as Internet, Mobile Phones
When T-Mobile’s G1 phone was unveiled earlier this year one of the things that caught many people’s eyes was the barcode reader app available for it. Developed by Big In Japan, ShopSavvy allows users to scan the barcode of any product and instantly get price comparison information for it displayed on their phone. This allows [...]
As microblogging grows in popularity so do the ways in which people are using it. An interesting example of this has sprung up here in my home city of Manchester. Two enterprising members of the local tech community have put together a way to crowdsource traffic news.
Twaffik is an automated system that works via a [...]
A few months ago something new happened in my Twitter feed; people started posting links to videos they had created on a service called 12seconds.tv. Intriguiged, I looked into the service and sure enough it allows you to upload videos that last just 12 seconds and not a frame more.
Puzzled as to the appeal of [...]
