Google Gets Social — Well They’re Trying

February 10th, 2010

Yahoo! Buzz was released in August 2008, but where was the hype and fuss surrounding it’s launch? Yahoo, according to Hitwise statistics (as of week ending 06/02/2010) is the biggest webmail provider, followed by Hotmail and Gmail. But rarely do the others cause as much of a ‘Buzz’ (pun inexcusable) as Google, and naturally Yahoo! [...]


How to Upload Images to Pixie

July 8th, 2009

Continuing from yesterday’s post:
How to upload images to Pixie:
1. Click on ‘Upload’ at the top of the page when logged into your profile:

2. Select ‘Find Images’, then choose the images from your computer that you wish to upload:

3. Add a name to the album, or select a previous album to add images to. Also [...]


Pixie – A local photo sharing community

July 7th, 2009

There are a variety of ways to share images and photographs online:

Blog
Self-hosted Gallery
Photo sharing site such as Pixie, Flickr, Photobucket, SmugMug, Picassa etc.
Social network sites like Facebook/Bebo/Myspace

But which of these are truly optimised as a community for receiving constructive comments and has a decent community behind it. I’ve used Flickr for a few years and [...]


The BT Experiment

July 3rd, 2009

Today is the last day of The Experiment.

But what was the BT Experiment??
In short, John Fitzsimons has spent the last 26 days in one room/cell in the Great Northern Mall in Belfast with only Internet, TV and a phone line. The aim was to create an impact, to “try to influence world events.” Did he [...]


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June 28th, 2009

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Will you get bored of Twitter?

May 6th, 2009

Yesterday morning Paddy Donnelly posed the question to Stephen Fry “Do you think you’ll eventually get bored of twitter?” Unfortunately Stephen hasn’t given a response, maybe he feels his answer is ‘yes’.

For me, I think it will be a while before my answer isn’t ‘no’. Having enjoyed Twitter as an early adopter since early 2007 [...]