Month: May 2011
James Bond style – Loky app protects those confidential text messages and photos
You know the way you want to keep some text messages private? You don't want your boss or your little sister or your mate John to see them, or really ANYONE. Well obviously other people usually aren't looking at your phone, but there are occasions when you give other your phone to other people -…
Poll: Those in-ear headphones – icky or fine?
Don't get me wrong, I use in-ear headphones, but there's a growing trend towards ones that reach ever deeper into the recesses of your ears, and I just don't like them. Most likely they improve sound quality, increase security of hold, but to me they just look and feel a bit like some kind of…
Sony's back: But the Playstation network is shaky & hackers still unpunished
Playstation online faced a wave of traffic today as it finally got back online. Hundreds of thousands of Playstation users logged on this morning as the service got back online just under a month after it was taken off after a hack on 17th April. The numbers of people trying to get back in resulted…
How collaboration makes you more creative: The Calendar Songs story
If sounds like something your primary school art teacher might say while waving her arms around spraying paint everywhere... well it probably is, but there might be something in it. I came across a cute example yesterday of how sharing can make you more creative. It came up at digital music festival NetAudio London when…
Why those dead-after-two-years iPhone batteries are damaging the world
An interesting point popped up yesterday about TECHNOLOGY and SAVING THE WORLD - and how we're not really doing it right. Academic Michel Bauwens was talking to NetAudio London about digital music but he also dropped in a dig at the design gods like Apple and their strategies of planned obsolescence. Planned obsolescence is why…
Forget the dollars – BitCoin could be the new currency of the internet
At a conference yesterday about collaboration in digital music NetAudio London, I was surprised that we got a bit of a lecture about online economics, specifically digital currencies. But I guess - it makes sense. The big issue with sharing on the web is not how to do it - we all know how we…
Has Facebook got too complicated? Site doesn't even "notice" latest data leak
In the flurry about smears, dirty PR and who is worst at dealing with sensitive user data, an interesting story about Facebook passed under the radar yesterday. The story was also about privacy. And surprise surprise - it wasn't good news for Facebook. Or Facebook users for that matter. Facebook admitted yesterday that they just…
Why Google and Facebook hate each other: 3 simple reasons
Three simple reasons. 1) Competition for Adverting Dollars First things first - money. Google makes its money off Google Ads - advertisers buy space on its search results pages. So a certain brand of hairdryer will turn up in the sponsored box when you search for "hairdryer". So far, fine but - Facebook makes money…
Facebook smear Google- Poll: Are you surprised?
So Facebook hired a major PR firm to smear Google with rumours about its privacy failures. Burston-Mueller were hired by Facebook to approach journalists and bloggers with information about how Google infringed on privacy of users. Dirty huh? Are you surprised though? Are you surprised by Facebook trying to secretly smear Google?customer surveys
And now… the Taliban are on Twitter
Forget that super injunction account. The Taleban are the hot new must-follow tweeters. They're updating the faithful on @alemarahweb apparently. The Guardian say: "Their Twitter feed, @alemarahweb, pumps out several messages each day, keeping 224 followers up to date with often highly exaggerated reports of strikes against the "infidel forces" and the "Karzai puppet regime".…
