Month: October 2010
UPDATE: Facebook Insights – how it works and whether it's any good for you
This is a quick update to our post yesterday 10 Tips on running a great Facebook Page, by Facebook, just clarifying one important point - Facebook InSights. What Facebook offers brands is 1) Traffic - people share your content with their friends, getting you more visitors 2) Engagement - chance to hear from and respond…
Samsung offering 3D prescription glasses..
Only days after the announcement of bubblegum-coloured, aviator-style 3D TV glasses from iWoot, Samsung have annouced prescription 3D glasses for watching the telly. This means that those of us who are squinty and short-sighted won't have to perch two pairs of glasses on our delicate noses when we want to watch some film in 3D.…
The Evolution of the Geek – on a Flowchart
This is good - a flowchart of Geek Evolution taking us right up to these modern days where being a geek is practically encouraged. The best bit on this chart of course is the bit at the beginning explaining the orgin of the word "geek". So it either comes from some German word "gecken" (which…
Put your CV on a T-Shirt why not?
These days the job market is a hard thing. If you're already pimping yourself out on LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs and Facebook, you may want to consider the radical next step of printing your CV on a tee-shirt and wearing it out and about. We're not promising that you'll get a job, but you will at…
Samsung + Lily Allen = a netbook that looks like Victorian Wallpaper
We're liking on this classy case by Samsung for their new bit of kit the SF310 notebook. The monochrome SF310 notebook looks a bit like Victorian wallpaper thanks to a creative makeover by Lily Allen and her new boutique shop - Lucy in Disguise. The shop rocks the same kind of cute retro style as…
Techie Bitch-fight between Steve Jobs and Andy Rubin heats up – with a Tweet in Code
The best techie bitch-backs are written in code. Okay, it's not exactly Lily Allen calling someone a fat cow, but Google CEO Andy Rubin has come back at Apple's Steve Jobs's big rant about Android handsets in one clipped tweet. But this isn't just any throwaway tweet, it's the only thing he's ever tweeted, marking…
VIDEO: Gyration Air Mouse Elite brings Wii Magic to the humble mouse
From the guys behind the motion sensor on the Wii comes... a mouse. Okay, I understand you're not falling over with excitement, but this is a nice mouse. It won a prize at CES, has several unique and heavily patented features, and could actually make powerpoint presentations interesting. Quick demo with Christian from Gyration who…
10 Tips on running a great Facebook Page, by Facebook
I thought I knew pretty much everything about how Facebook works - I promote a couple of blogs off there and have probably spent months of my life on the site.. - but I've just been to a workshop about promoting sites and businesses at Facebook HQ London, and guess what, turns out I didn't…
3D glasses get a makeover: meet these bubble-gum aviators from iWoot
Well these pretty little things should clear up any lingering doubts you had about 3D television. Okay the sets still cost something on the wrong side of £500 but any problems you had about wearing 3D enabling eyewear that looks like medicinal sunglasses should now be swept aside. iWOOT have released aviator shaped 3D glasses,…
Facebook Like Button in Real Life
It was only a matter of time before this happened. Soon I expect clubs, restaurants and sandwich packets to come enabled with this sort of thing. Hey, people too why not? Facebook "Like" buttons are everywhere online, but this may be the first sighting of one IRL. If you scan the barcode with your smartphone…
