Author: Ashley Norris
Win a Dell laptop courtesy of Microsoft
UPDATE: Final weeks for this.. wing answers along to our email address: [email protected][09/03/10] It has to be said that not everyone 'gets' computers. So it's a good job those more 'IT literate' people are around to help their friends and family with home IT issues! You see, they have to put up with a lot…
Ben Folds very funny Chatroulette video
No long explanation necessary - genius songwriter, live gig, Chatroulette = major hilarity and half a million YouTube views.
Top ten hottest new websites and iPhone apps of 2010
I thought it was time to do a little round up of ten social media apps and sites that may just become the next big thing. It is interesting that while the first wave of social media sites focused on networking, these have a slightly different approach. Many have strong networking elements, but they also…
Is Foursquare just a London thing?
There's no denying that location based game Foursquare is on a bit of a roll at the moment. The number of people playing the online location based game has rocketed, it recently announced some interesting partnerships with UK retailers and it has Vodafone on board too. And now Foursquare appears to have landed the big…
Psst wanna buy an imported iPad? The UK eBay iPad scramble begins
Today at Shiny Towers we have been discussing how we might be able to nab one of the iPads that lucky Americans will be taking delivery of very soon. We thought about a quick trip to New York (too pricey), enlisting one of our Stateside buddies (bit worried about customs) and a few other wheezes,…
Has Twitter peaked? Or why micro blogging needs another Demi Moore bottom shot
There appear to be signs that Twitter's astonishing rate of growth may be coming to an end. According to a study by Barracuda Networks the growth in the number of Twitter users peaked number of users peaked at nearly 20% last April, but had dropped down to 0.15% in December 2009. This ties in with…
Foursquare team up with Starbucks – world domination beckons
It has been a pretty good year for Foursquare so far. The number of people playing the online location based game has rocketed, it recently announced some interesting partnerships with UK retailers and it has Vodafone on board too. And now Foursquare appears to have landed the big one. According to Mashable the company has…
More evidence that the iPhone is a girls' phone
Picture the average iPhone user and I bet you are conjuring up some blokey geek in their 20s? Well according to new research from mobile advertising company Admob you are away off. The survey, which also quizzed Palm Web OS and Google Android users, found that iPhone owners are split fairly evenly between the sexes…
French Connection in rubbish Chatroulette competition
In case you missed the hype Chatroulette started at the end of last year and it randomly connects users from around the world, enabling them to communicate using webcam, text and images. Much of the time though users share webcam footage with each other and much of it is, (our research team reckons about 10%)…
Nearly a month on AR poster app Layar still not back on the iPhone
As regular readers know we are huge fans of the Augmented Reality app Layar. In case you missed it Layar lets you overlay a layer of digital content over external reality as seen through your phone's camera. Point your phone's camera at a street/building/person, and on the screen, information about what you're seeing is overlaid onto…
