Entries in 'New technologies'

What Santa SHOULD have bought you:

January 8th, 2008 by Matt Rebeiro · No Comments

Yes its the painfully pretty Revo DAB Radio Pico WIFI! Ignore the bit that says DAB in its title the bit that should be making you all girly inside is the ‘WIFI’ bit. Yes, those of you who know me will now that I whole heartedly beleive that the internet is the future of radio. [...]

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Congratulations…

December 3rd, 2007 by Matt Rebeiro · 1 Comment

Congratulations Dan! You’re tireless efforts to bemoan Facebook’s intrusiveness have yielded success!
…they say 50,000 people signed a petition but we all really know that Marky-Mark has been reading RMM’s blog.

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Dept. of Neologisms: Beaconned

November 29th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · No Comments

Beaconned (adj.)
How you’ll feel when Facebook tells all your friends you just bought the new Celine Dion CD.
Beaconned (trad.)
Colloquial contraction referring to the result of Facebook’s new ad scheme, as in, “I’ll beaconned if that happens to me”
Previous entries here and here.

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Facebook: A Beacon or a Stalker?

November 28th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 2 Comments

So, last week my friend Shannon got a great deal on a rental car from Hotwire. I know this not because Shannon is in the habit of calling me up and regaling me with tales of her automotive hiring practices, but because I found out about it on my Facebook page. There it was, a [...]

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Cars, trains and Google OpenSocial

November 3rd, 2007 by Leo Ryan · 1 Comment

I’ve been watching the Google Campfire video on their recently announced OpenSocial initiative. And aside from it being wonderfully cheesy - there literally is a campfire and the smoke continues to waft across the presenter throughout the presentation - its is a handy overview of the situation that currently exists with social networks and the [...]

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