Over the last few years there have been 3 things worrying me in the back of my mind: Will I stop being cool when I get old? Will I lose my hair when I get old? Will I lose touch with new technologies when I get old? I think its a safe bet to say [...]
I am well overdue to post about about this project we have been working on since the beginning of the year. We were involved in the launch of a site called InfoConnect by NZTA (previously Transit New Zealand). This explains it best: InfoConnect is an initiative to help ensure road users have access to timely [...]
Here’s something that is kind of useless, but still cool (seems to be a trend?) Searchme.com is a search engine that is still in beta, and calls itself a “Visual Search Engine”. Essentially when you search for something within Searchme it gives you a small screen shot of the actual website, along with using Apples [...]
With the Adobe AIR runtime become more popular for porting web apps to the desktop, freshAIRapps.com have released a great list of some of the best Adobe AIR apps available at the moment. Some of the more noteable ones include the desktop version of Google Analytics Reporting Suite and the desktop version of Google Reader.
Facebook at Work – Essential for Job Applicants A study in Australia has found that almost half would refuse a job if they were not allowed access to Facebook at work. Read more New Legal Woes for Facebook Founder A former friend of Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is legally challenging the right to the name [...]
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Facebook Close to Beating MySpace Traffic Numbers on the World Stage Latest figures from comScore show that whilst MySpace is still the clear market leader in terms of social networks in the US, when you look at the worldwide numbers, Facebook is very, very close to overtaking MySpace, in January only trailing by about 9 [...]
In an industry like ours technological know how and early adoption is a must. But the result of this can sometimes be a technology overload. I have often cracked the joke about my boss (not too smart on my part) being overloaded with gadgets, from his I Phone to bluetooth headset, multiple chat accounts and [...]
Happy Easter. New Facebook Privacy Features Deciding who sees what on your Facebook profile just got a lot more flexible…and a lot more complex. Here is a great video that explains it all (thanks Teresa): Read more Facebook Upgrade Breaks Apps Facebook has done a major upgrade of their platform, and this is apparently causing [...]
YouTube announced that they are going to start giving developers more access into their systems. Some of the features they are offering are “chromeless” players, i.e the option to customize your own player. As part of YouTube’s goal to extend its reach beyond the Internet browser by enabling users to discover and share compelling video [...]