Month: November 2010
Zadie Smith: 'Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about privacy, because his own life is quite boring'
Novelist Zadie Smith has written an interesting article about Facebook in which she finds a reason for its general disregard for personal privacy. Her thinking? - Mark Zuckerberg is quite a boring person with nothing particularly exciting to hide, so he doesn't really understand why other people would want to. She's not denying he is…
Man Turns Himself Into Human Jukebox
What would make you possibly want to do this is beyond us, but Fredrik Hjelmquist purposely swallowed a pill that contained a wireless sound system in a rather unusual publicity stunt. Unfortunately, this is not a joke, he really wanted to become a human jukebox, right down to allowing you to pick the songs that…
Could Skype becoming to Facebook?
There have been rumors circulating since September that Skype could be integrated into Facebook, but now Tal Alter, a Facebook app developer has discovered a code called VideoChat in the API. While working on his own app, the developer came across this code, and according to him it has "everything needed to introduce video chatting…
The front cover of Richard Branson's iPad Mag is a video – we still don't get it
The front cover of Richard Branson's new iPad magazine - called "Project" - will be a video. The video above in fact. Matt from Project magazine emailled us a link to it and to the iPad magazine's blog. He told me "Project is what we like to think of as a 'living magazine' - evolving…
Money that talks to you: Chatterbucks the AR app makes the queen speak
Yes it does these days. Little speech bubbles pop out of her majesty's mouth and your notes can talk to you provided you just have the right phone.. and the right app. This uses clever image recognition and augmented reality to make something that is essentially useless but quite fun. You can leave messages stuck…
Bringing Christmas to your Blackberry: five festive backgrounds
If tinsel on the monitor and some mince pies from Tesco isn't enough festivity for you, then RIM have some extra Christmas cheer for you in the form of five (quite pricey) Blackberry backgrounds. Nothing like cartoon elves gazing sweetly up at you as you switch on BBM. These Christmas skins cost up to £4.71…
Poll: Gaga gives up Facebook for charity, what would it take to get you off Facebook?
Lady Gaga has created headlines by quitting social media for charity. Along with a bunch of other celebrities, she is off Facebook and Twitter until $1 million has been raised for an HIV charity. She will sign off of Twitter and Facebook on Wednesday (1 December) as part of Digital Life Sacrifice, which is raising…
Google Rumored To Have Purchased Groupon
This morning Vatornews is reporting that Google has bought Groupon. Citing an "unnamed insider" who told them Google "has just purchased Groupon for $2.5 billion." Talk of the possible acquisition of the popular group buying site by Google emerged earlier in this month, after Yahoo failed to negotiate an acquisition deal earlier this year. On…
Twitter lacks vision? but we like it simple!
An inteview where the new Twitter CEO admitted he felt the company was low on vision and a story on Netizen claiming that Twitter "was kneecapped by its poverty of vision" just got me thinking that maybe Twitter doesn't need vision. Not for its users' sake anyway. Third parties have been quick to jump in…
Social Network Shoes: Adidas Facebook and Twitter Superstars
Social networking obsessed? Then check these concept designs for Adidas by Gerry Mckay based on Twitter and Facebook (unfortunately the MySpace editions were discontinued). Although nearly everyone has a Facebook or Twitter account these days, were not entirely sure how well this social media enthusiasm spreads to fashion. The Adidas Facebook Superstar shoe comes in…
