technology archive
5 things you shouldn’t miss: mobile phone usage, finding out more about your loves, clever hotels and more
Welcome to the latest in our monthly collection of five weblinks that you shouldn’t miss. How and when we use our mobile phones http://bit.ly/oTrMiU How does mobile phone use vary between services, through the day and across countries? Find out with this nifty little graphical tool from TNS. What do you love? http://bit.ly/pqfi8L Google wants to tell [...]
How to lurk on Twitter
Take a rummage around the Twitter profiles of people in politics and you will quickly discover a rarely talked about species of Twitterer – the lurker. They sign up to Twitter, follow various people but never send a tweet themselves. The logic is that if you want to keep an eye on what is being [...]
If it doesn't exist, build it – Penguin's successful approach to online communities
Fish where the fish are, go to existing communities, chase the eyeballs – whichever turn of phrase you prefer, it is a widespread and powerful idea that in online communications you should go to where your audiences are and engage with them there. But what if appropriate locations do not exist and you therefore have [...]
I really, really hope I don't have to put my laptop to this sort of test…
I’m still very happy with my Lenovo X301, both for its performance and its robust design. I have had one keyboard failure, but the customer service was extremely good – fast and straight-forward despatch of an easy to fit replacement part. Given things are almost certain to go wrong at some point, knowing that good [...]
Three interesting uses for Foursquare
The geo-location social network Foursquare is still combining impressive percentage growth in traffic with (especially in the UK) relatively low user figures. If that percentage growth continues, it could break into the big time as Twitter has. But already there are some niches where it has a worthwhile audience, especially if you want to read [...]
Woo! Victory is ours in the war on unusual website legal demands (Part 2)
Yesterday I reported with breathless excitement the news that legal sanity has reached the shores of Shropshire, whose county council no longer demands that people receive written permission before linking to their site. Today, another victory courtesy of Ipsos MORI. They regularly provide useful information on their site and chances are you have seen myself [...]
Woo! Victory is ours in the war on unusual website legal demands (Part 1)
Long-term readers may recall me previously highlighting the unusual website terms and conditions that myself and mainly other people have dug up, such as the local council website that said people were allowed to print off copies of its pages but could not then photocopy them. That ban on photocopying was removed in the end. [...]
Banning social media isn't the answer to riots: sign the petition
Last week I wrote about how misguided David Cameron’s talk of banning use of social media in an effort to stop future riots was, and that it was more a matter of some politicians looking to blame the communications channels they themselves are least familiar with: The number of communication technologies in the firing line [...]
Is it simply a question of politicians and pundits always trying to ban technologies they don’t use?
In amongst the many causes and contributing factors to this week’s riots, technology certainly takes its place. My Engine colleague Jon Akwue has accurately pointed out how it was Blackberry Messenger far more than the headline-favourite son Twitter which was involved, and the use of technology was by no means all for the bad – [...]
5 things you shouldn’t miss: controlling YouTube with your head, finding out who loves you on Google+ and more
Welcome to the ninth in our monthly collection of five weblinks that you shouldn’t miss, put together by the Digital Leadership Group. Use your head to control YouTube http://bizt.ag/g2L9Nw Hugo Boss has developed an intriguing YouTube film, which is controlled by your head movements (as detected via a webcam). Tilt your head left or right and [...]
