Month: April 2011
Web 4.0: What it is and when it's coming
Just been at an interesting conference given by Tom Jenkins of Canadian company Open Text. His company have been around making stuff for the internet for 20 years. If Web 2.0 is Facebook and Twitter - the read/write web, where people upload content as well as consuming it; and Web 3.0 is the data web…
The Social Network that the G20 leaders use to run the world..
Fascinated to find out today that the world leaders, civil servants and journalists attending the G20 summit use a social network to communicate with each other, share documents and create wikis about - well - how to run the world. Developed by Open Text the G20 social network works as a website and also an…
How we read the news now: 3 observations
Just been watching a video about how and when we read the news these days. Three little observations from a video on the Nieman Journalism Lab... 1) We all read it more at work. It used to be that people read the papers in the morning over their cornflakes and then that they might pick…
Bad dates – there's an app for that
Want to record a play-by-play experience of a dreadful date and share it with other people live on the internet? There's an app for that. Well of course you could do it on Facebook or Twitter, but if you want to keep your bitching anonymous - then you should consider BadOnlineDates, the iPhone app. You'll…
We don't really get iPad newspapers: Stats from The Daily show big tail-off
The Nieman Journalism Lab delved into some statistics from the iPad magazine The Daily, launched with a $50 million endowment by Rupert Murdoch a few months ago. Going by tweets emanating from the iPad magazine, Nieman deduced that tweets from the app had fallen off significantly since the first week and that the most tweeted…
Review: The FT for Android tablets – is the £233 app as premium as it could be?
When looking at the app of a magazine or paper, it's sometimes hard to separate the quality of the content from the quality of the format. And that's a good thing. Ideally, you shouldn't notice the format at all because it's so intuitive that it unobtrusively lets the content shine. But when reviewing it, you…
How your unborn baby can choose its own name from your iPhone
If you want your unborn child to have a say over its future name - then you might consider the iPhone app 'Kick to Pick'. Your child will have to gotta get used to using smartphones so you might as well start it in the womb.... App-maker Nathan Parks from Leeds, UK said: "Not only…
iPhone accessory lets you take spin-out 360 degree videos: excellent
I'm not going to lie - this looks so damn exciting. The Go Pano Micro is an iPhone accessory like few others and it lets you take 360 degree footage with your iPhone camera. It means you can spin the camera round and round and round. Just looking at it makes me go wooooah. I'm…
Twitter introduces emotional search…
Twitter is improving they way you can find people to follow in your area of interest by using "emotional search". Announced in a blog post yesterday - Twitter explained that not only can you now search for people who are influential on a particular topic - you can also search for how they feel about…
Invisible money clip is made out of money
In this day and age of skinny jeans and skinny phones, we don't like carrying wallets around very much. We prefer to just stuff a wad of notes in our pocket and free ourselves of the unnecessary complications of layers of leather. Certainly, that's what I do. One New York designer has come with a…
