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Scars on 45 – a band fan-funded through Slicethepie.com – makes it big in the States
As the internet sends old business models haywire, new ones pop up: sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. In the music industry one persistent model seems to be fan-financing and a UK band that started out on a fan-financing site seems set to make it big in the States. Newcomers Scars on 45 got…
When is bashing the screen of a phone against a pointed metal corner the right thing to do?
When is bashing the screen of a phone against a pointed metal corner the right thing to do? When you're the BBC technology correspondent and you're trying to break the world's most unbreakable phone. Billed as unbreakable by manufacturers Sonim, this little critter can be held 20ft underwater for up to 30 minutes or dropped…
Youtube vid of the week: the world's most talented man
While I'm passing on inspirational videos, like the Hello Kitty trailer and pop song, here's another pretty impressive one. This man has taken the art of free running to new heights (lol) i.e. not can he run up walls and do a little backward somersault he can also jump off a wall and into his…
Seesmic acquire Ping.fm: expect social network updating on steriods
News from the world of Social Networking that Seesmic have just bought out Ping.fm. Both enable easy posting to social networking sites so the amalgamation of the two could create an important social networking hub letting you cross closed sites with ease - message someone on Facebook via g-chat for example, or post on someone's…
Chrome overtakes Safari, now third most popular browser
News comes from marketshare that Chrome overtook Safari last month to become the third most popular internet browser behind Internet Explorer and Firefox. With ads for Chrome splashed over buses, newspapers and billboards Google has put its monetary might behind advertising its browser and it's not surprising that people are taking it up in increasing…
Nine things not to tweet about, and one thing that is fine
Webcomic Oatmeal provides a helpful checklist of things to avoid on Twitter. "Ten things you need to stop tweeting about" suggests that you refrain from tweeting about the usual suspects: your food, your kids, your emotional breakthroughs. I largely agree, but with the exception of their seventh no-no: speaking out of context. Look at the…
Student takes a typewriter to lectures
Those students know how to be funny. Apparently this young man was fed up with the clacking sound of other students' laptop keyboards in lectures and decided to protest by bringing in the ultimate clacking machine. A typewriter. Sadly the sound isn't great on this, but I think he was asked to leave for disturbing…
What do Jesus, daleks & Siamese cats have in common? they're all on awesome cakes
I know cakes aren't really gadgets. They're more like foodstuffs, but surely technical masterpieces like these cakes pictured below are worthy of admiration from geeks and normals alike. This is a Jesus cake. Great for friends who love Jesus. Is eating Jesus cake similar to the sacrament of Holy Communion? Your call... but if you…
We're interested in: Gravity, the conversation technology bringing forums into 2010
Gravity is a web service that aims to make conversations on the internet easier and better. It updates the elderly forum model and is comparable to services like Google Wave and Twitter. Set up by former MySpace execs, Gravity launched into private beta yesterday, and Techcrunch profiled the new service here. "We built Gravity because…
Maltmatcher: app and site that helps you choose malt whiskys
Considering buying that certain someone (your dad) a choice malt whiskey for Christmas? Baffled by labels with information about maltsters, peat reek and weird bits of Gaelic..? by sentences beginning: "a marriage of Ardbeg from bourbon barrel and sherry butt"? Well once again, there is app/website for this sort of thing. From drinks manufacture Diageo…
