Month: June 2011
Of course Facebook friends are real: Facebook's real
People have been acting surprised over a study that shows that Facebookers who spend a lot of time on the site and have lots of Facebook friends, tend to have more friends in real life too. HERE'S WHY: Facebook is connected to real life. It is part of real life. Social interaction on Facebook is…
Five tweets that have landed their writers in big trouble
News today that a single tweet has lost a PR company its biggest client got us thinking about other tweets that have cost their authors dear.. Redner Group lost their account with games manufacturer 2k yesterday after threatening to withold game samples from critical reviewers. The tweet from the @TheRednerGroup account read: "too many went…
Facebook's Project Spartan and How it Could Kill the Apple App Store
Facebook has created a platform that could circumvent the Apple app store and turn Apple's own devices against them. Called Spartan, it is an html5 mobile version of the site that would run through Apple's Safari browser on devices like the iPad and iPhone, rather than being a true app. It explains why Facebook have…
How much would you pay for a date with the world's sexiest Hacker? Julian Assange up for grabs
The sliver-quiffed leader of Wikileaks Julian Assange is auctioning off a lunch date with himself in a bid to raise money for his whistle-blowing website. Oh and the famed philosopher Slavoj Zizek will be there too. Currently the bid stands at £1,850.00 and you have 4 days left to get in there. We call him…
How Facebook recognises faces for its new auto-tagging feature
Facebook's freaky auto-tagging feature that has been rolling out across the US has raised hackles but also complaints - that it simply doesn't work very well. Differences in lighting, the colouring, camera angle and the person's expression can trip the system up. So how does Facebook's Facial Recogntion work? Will it work better in future?…
Watch tells you how drunk you are: TokyoFlash concept the breatha-watch
Half watch, half breathalyzer. This concept from Japanese watchmakers TokyoFlash is one for the party-goers among us. It's a standard LCD watch (well, standard for TokyoFlash anyway) with a port that reads your breath to test the blood alcohol level. Then it whizzes up the results into a display that shows the characteristics of your…
Forget the R&D department, bring in the pre-schoolers: And they want interaction
We've always known they're going to be the tech consumers of the next couple of decades, so it makes sense to give the next generation a say in what that future will look like. Manufacturers are dying to second guess what Generation Z could help design the gadgets that will shape their lives. And they…
Is Facebook really losing users?
Significant numbers of Facebookers are deleting their accounst, said a report on Inside Facebook, which also claimed that new members weren't signing up in the numbers they used to. 6million US users deleted their account last year along with 100,000 Britons The pace of new users joining the network is slowing down too, showing below…
Anna Wintour's Webby wisdom is sooo last season
The editor of American Vogue gave us this gem yesterday when she accepted a Webby for Vogue.com: "sometimes - geeks can be chic". The Webbys demand a 5 word acceptance speech from their winners. But despite the award, Wintour's contribution suggests that the famous editor is still stuck in a 1.0 world and isn't quite…
Waiting for Wimbledon: 8 fun tennis gadgets
Wimbledon is only five days away and we're hoping Murray might make it all the way to the top this year. To keep us entertained until we can don our 3D glasses to see all the action on centre court, we thought it would be interesting to see what tennis related gadgets are out there.
