I don’t listen to the radio. I dislike radio advertising for both the interruption, volume increases, and the overall quality. I also don’t like DJ’s generally – with the possible exception of morning radio shows. I just want to listen to the music – perhaps with some news every now and then. I listen to my own […]
Yesterday, there was news that LinkedIn was hacked and six million passwords leaked on the internet. There were two main concerns for users: 1. Someone could log in to your LinkedIn account and make contact with your connections. LinkedIn is primarily a business network site and so the concern was with the potential damage […]
I posted back in February on how to schedule tweets and why. The main point was that if you read “shareable” content in batches, then you don’t want to overload your twitter stream and end up spamming your followers with loads of tweets in a short period of time. It is far better to spread these […]
Instagram is a new social network for sharing pictures – basically, it is like Twitter for photos but with Facebook’s like button. It launched in October 2010 and already has over 5 million users (in only nine months). It has had more than 100 million photos uploaded at a current rate of 860,000 per day. Instagram is […]
UPDATE (2015): Please note that Yahoo has now closed down Pipes which is referenced in this article. See the announcement here: http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement UPDATE: Please note that the functionality described in this blog post relises on Twitter API version 1.0 which has now been deprecated by Twitter. This means that the functionality described may no longer […]
