Posted by Simon Perry on 14 August 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Social software, UK, Mobile, Cellular
Twitter has decided to drop the distribution of outgoing SMS in the UK, citing escalating cost.
While UK users will still be able to update Twitter using their mobiles, those updates will not be distributed via SMS to their ‘followers.’ Updates will still be visible over the Web, as previously, as well as other, third-party services.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 13 August 2008 | Tagged as: Social software
Twinity has recently decided to let a few more people into their virtual rendition of real world locations.
If you already know someone who is a member you could get onto them to ask if you can have one of their limited number of invites.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 6 August 2008 | Tagged as: Software Development, Social software, Software
We’ve been users of Wordpress for many years and are huge fans of the free-to-use publishing platform.
Yesterday was the first time that we’ve hit a major problem with it - and it was a significant one.
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We use it on many of our publications including VentnorBlog, that covers Isle of Wight News.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 23 July 2008 | Tagged as: Buy out, Business, Social software, Google, Rumours
Rumours abound that the search giant is set to snap up Digg for $200m.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 9 July 2008 | Tagged as: Social software, Web 2.0, Web, Software, Networking
Years late to the party, Hasbro and Mattel look to oust the unofficial Facebook hit app.
The unauthorised Scrabble rip-off ‘Scrabulous’ continues to be a phenomenal hit on the social networking site Facebook, despite the best efforts of copyright owners Hasbro and Mattel to get the application closed down.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 9 June 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Social software, Security, Web
Survey of instant messaging applications highlights security risks.
Posted by Simon Perry on 6 June 2008 | Tagged as: Social software, UK, User Generated Content (UGC)
It appears that no-one is immune to Internet fads these days, even traditional venerable institutions such as Oxford English Dictionary (OED) are getting involved.
(Amazingly the OED is only 80 years old - it’s one of those things that you would have assume had been around since the invention of the print press in Europe by […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 12 May 2008 | Tagged as: Social software, Web 2.0
Brits are leading the Euro pack when it comes to using mobile social networking websites
Posted by Simon Perry on 2 May 2008 | Tagged as: Social software, User Generated Content (UGC)
We’ve all seen the rise of social networks and their replacement by others, as the fashion changes.
Many devoted their lives to MySpace when it arose, collecting as many MySpace ‘friends’ as possible to show others of their ‘friends’ just how ‘popular’ they were.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 3 April 2008 | Tagged as: Social software, Web 2.0, UK, Music
Futuresonic, an Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas (as they describe it), is being held again this year.
It’s running 1-5 May in Manchester and is looking like a really interesting, rounded event.
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