May 2013
8 posts
Superheros
Me: would you love me more if I had a super power?
Vicky: no!... Cos I think you'd be a dick with it.
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How Google Could Help Attract Paywall Subscribers...
Micropayments and digital media haven’t exactly enjoyed a happy relationship so far, and this is a bit of a travesty according to Greg Golebiewski.
Who is Golebiewski? You might not be surprised to learn he is the CEO of a micropayment provider, Znak It. So his argument is a little self-serving, but still valuable. In the age of newspaper paywalls, Golebiewski tells Paid Content newspaper...
April 2013
3 posts
doctordonna:
sarasnerdrant:
admiral-fabulous:
breadfishing:
THE FIRST TIME I PLAYED HARVEST MOON I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANT BY NAME YOUR FARM SO I JUST NAMED IT “FARM” AND I WAS PISSED THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE GAME BECAUSE MY FARM WAS CALLED “FARM FARM”
god damn it farm farm
Harvest Moon Moon’s Farm Farm
to the outside eye it just looks like everybody on tumblr has a...
March 2013
1 post
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An Egg- cellent idea from Tesco (sorry)
It’s almost Easter, and that means we’ll all be needing to buy some egg/bunny/chick shaped chocolate. Yum.
Although it’s almost a given to buy at least one egg for yourself and for your loved ones, at least in my house, Tesco has decided we all need a little encouragement to hit up their many, many, many stores. Queue this rather nice Google StreetView mash up: tescofindtheeggs.com.
It’s a...
February 2013
2 posts
January 2013
5 posts
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Rumours, headlines and the x-surface-factor
Last week some exciting rumours hit the web, starting on Pocket-lint. It seems an anonymous tipster had got in touch to reveal top secret details of new Xbox products coming up to launch. Amongst other exciting details was the promise of a brand new Xbox console, not to be labelled ‘720’, and a 7-inch gaming table dubbed the X-Surface.
Related and less detailed rumours had appeared before, but...
Untitled: X-Surface: Don't believe everything you... →
x-surface:
I am a gamer. I don’t work for Microsoft.
I, like most other gamers, am sick of seeing endless rumours and speculation citing “anonymous sources” or “insiders” with no evidence, no proof, no guarantee that they’ve been fact-checked or can be relied on.
The games industry is the only one I can…
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FT vs Guardian: The Ongoing Paywall Debate
The Financial Times has been held up as something of a pioneering newspaper, but its latest digital expansion comes at cost to the print.
The paper has done a good job of adapting to the digital world, attracting large numbers of paying subscribers to both print and online. It’s usually the default pro-paywall example; although with the note its content has the advantage of being unique enough to...
December 2012
8 posts
WatchDamn giraffes in gift shops
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Opening advent calendar: day 22
Vicky: Wait...where's the Christmas Day window?
Me: There isn't one
Vicky: But you usually get one
Me: Not on these calendars...
Vicky: With a Mars bar in or something...
Me: I can get you a Mars bar on Christmas if you like
Vicky: Thanks.
Anonymous asked: That top gear app- is it something other than the magazine that's in the Apple newsstand? It sounds the same but you keep calling it an app and saying it's new.
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Top Gear iPad app launches
Top Gear magazine released an iPad versionof popular monthly print issue this week, which launches to coincide with the ‘Cars of 2012’ issue.
From the brief demo shown at the launch event, the app looks to be a good one. The ‘pages’ of each issue look similar to the print addition, but certain aspects of each come alive in various ways.
For example, this month’s cover features images of the Cars...
November 2012
7 posts
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Top 20 Social Networks (Infographic)
Another interesting infographic today, this one charting the top 20 social networks (remember the days when we all said ‘social networks’ instead of ‘social media’ – back in 2006? Good times).
Some interesting stats, especially on user bases – Instagram is bigger than Tumblr and Flickr. Bad news for people who can’t stand a letter ‘E’ in their social network name of choice. Also interesting to...
hawkeye: i'm all out of arrows. i guess i'm done here. stay safe, i'll be in my car
blackwidow: how much did you bring
hawkeye: 11
captain america: we have 10000 aliens
hawkeye: and i killed 11 of them. You're welcome.
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The common sense approach isn’t working: Police...
The British police aren’t doing a great job of adjusting to life with social media. After trying a “common sense approach” to Twitter in the wake of several ludicrous cases, Kent Police have fallen victim, so to speak, to issues surrounding the arrest of a Facebook user.
Said arrest concerns a 19-year-old who, for reasons best known to his own tiny mind, decided to post a photo of a burning...
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Paid Content: All you need is love…and tablets…and...
Paid-for news content is having a tough old time in the Internet age. Us readers are so used to getting news for free that even the lowest cost news and online content is shunned in favour of free site. According to two separate reports, from Forrester and the Columbia/Indiana University, there are two lifelines for news content – the rise of tablets and smartphones and…umm…’love’.
Easy one...
October 2012
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Nothing lasts forever…except for T-Mobile top ups
The ASA has been a little quite in tech matters lately, after a busy period of rulings on Twitter led campaigns earlier in the year. But recent complaints regarding T-Mobile’s mobile top up advertising has meant the regulator has waded in and redefined the word ‘forever’.
According to PC Pro, a ruling on the slogan “unlimited free texts forever” has changed the meaning of forever to “not...
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Was the BBC’s Playlister all rumours of iPlayer...
Last week the Telegraph published a seemingly unconfirmed story about the BBC launching a music streaming service. There was talk of potential partnerships with Spotify and iTunes, and the vast BBC archive being made available online – potentially for free, due to the unique way the Beeb is funded.
This morning the BBC made an announcement that may have been the cause of these rumours. As is...
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Infographic: How best to use Twitter and LinkedIn...
It seems the most efficient way to communicate nowadays is through an infographic, especially if your chosen topic is social media. Still, as The Wall notesthere are a few interesting tidbits in the below.
The information has been compiled by Dan Zarrella, an award-winning social media scientist and author.
Here’s a snapshot, you can scroll through the whole image to get all the stats and...
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BBC and Playlister: what will the iPlayer of music...
The Telegraph ran an interesting, and seemingly unconfirmed, story this morning regarding a new music service from the BBC, called ‘Playlister’.
It’s billed as a ‘music equivalent’ of the iPlayer, making tracks and albums available to license fee payers for free, on-demand streaming. The BBC is supposedly in talks with existing streaming services Spotify, iTunes and Deezer as...
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TV news outlets, tablets are yours for the taking
The youth of the US, they are revolting. Not in the nasty sense, but revolting against consuming TV news.
According to some research from Pew, an increasingly small number of ‘young’ Americans are switching off their TV and turning on their phone/tablet/laptop when seeking out the latest news.
According to The Guardian, the report states “Only about a third (34%) of those younger than 30...
September 2012
7 posts
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What The Times’ new paywall update means for PRs
It’s emerged this week The Times newspaper is backtracking ever so slightly on its paywall policy. It really is ‘ever so slightly’, two sentences at a time.
When The Times’ paywall shot up in May 2010 it was unique. Unique because it completely closed off all access to the site’s editorial content for non-subscribers. This contrasted harshly with other paywalls that allowed readers to view a...
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Being ‘cool’ doesn’t mean you have to beat your...
So the annual CoolBrands Top 20 is out, the ranking of brands according to their ‘cool’ factor as determined by an ‘expert panel’ of various movers, shakers and other personality defining physical actions.
Surprisingly, Apple has come out on top of in the cool stakes. Why surprising? Although the tech giant has just launched the iPhone 5 to record orders, it’s also been dogged by some pretty...
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Pun- tastic headlines are back - thanks to Google
The web has changed many things in life. When I was but a small child, and nets were for fishing, I didn’t know all cats are hilarious. I had no way of seeing what my friends were having for dinner every day. I was unable to claim knowledge of an obscure acronym cos I couldn’t Wikipedia it.
Now I am a small adult that’s all changed. I can do all these things, and more. The one thing I can’t do...
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The Telegraph vs The Guardian: Who has more...
Last week the latest National Readership Survey (NRS) figures were released, detailing how many of us Joe publics pick up and read a newspaper or news online every day. Despite being one set of figures, different media outlets managed to report the news with different angles. And quite self-serving angles at that.
Take for example The Telegraph’s opening line “More people read The Telegraph...
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Everything Everywhere’s new branding: we’re in...
It’s been a landmark week for mobile broadband in the UK, with the launch of the first 4G (that’s fourth generation) network being officially unveiled by operator Everything Everywhere.
Everything Everywhere is a joint venture between the two parents companies of the T-Mobile and Orange mobile networks. The launch was not purely of new tech and spectrum usage, the company simultaneously released...
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Nokia’s not helping itself with fake PR promos
Oh Nokia, once the darling of the mobile industry and now everyone’s whipping boy. The company can’t seem to catch a break, and this week’s highly anticipated launch of new Windows Phone handsets hasn’t gone smoothly. Even having Steve Ballmer, who’s famous for his gravitas at launches *cough*, couldn’t stop a huge dive in share price post-Lumia news.
That said, Nokia isn’t doing itself any...
August 2012
6 posts
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What do you get when you combine the Internet of...
If I were to name two things that are talked about a lot online, it’s social media and the Internet of Things. They’re both awesome, of course, but an example of their combined power appeared online yesterday that fired one’s imagination.
Zach Seward, a Mashable contributor and social media editor at soon-to-be-launched mobile business publication Quartz (that’s a mouthful), has hooked up an...
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UK Police: “We’re using ‘common sense’ approach to...
Following last week’s ups and downs for Twitter, or more specifically downs, the micro-blogging / social upheaval platform has resolved the legal cases for the short term. Twitter’s legal issues seem to have taken on bus-like properties, with three coming along at once.
Despite the increasing amount of legal questions Twitter users are causing, police chiefs in the UK are rejecting calls for...
