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  • HomeCamp Event: Andy Stanford-Clark’s View

    We really, really wanted to get along to the first HomeCamp event – which covered the now-realistic world of automating your home.

    Due to a change of circumstances on our side, we couldn’t make it. Much to our relief IBM Master Inventor and Distinguished Engineer Dr Andy Stanford-Clark (who you may know from his house that Twitters) said he’d cover it for Digital-Lifestyles’ readers. Thanks Andy!

    HomeCamp Event: Andy Stanford-Clark's ViewA couple of Saturdays ago I went to the first “HomeCamp,” at Imperial College in London.

    HomeCamp was an “unconference” (a conference where the participants decide what form and content it should have, on the day) to look at areas of home energy monitoring and home automation.

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  • Oasis Joins The Growing Band Of Twitter Fans

    Oasis Joins The Growing Band Of Twitter FansA couple of new Twitter converts came to our attention last night, despite what
    Nick Curtis thinks of it.

    Oasis, who are on a tour in the US at the moment, jumped on to Twitter a couple of days ago with their @OasisOfficial account.

    They haven’t exactly gone mad on it, making only two posts, but they are picking up followers fast.

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  • Twitter Misunderstood In The Evening Standard

    Twitter Misunderstood in the Evening StandardNick Curtis has written a poorly-researched piece in the Evening Standard that attempts to take a chunk out of Twitter, while asking if ‘Twitter is the new Facebook.’

    Why poorly-researched? Well, he starts the piece saying that Tweets are 160 characters long – and as anyone who has ever looked at the sevice will know, they’re 140, the large ‘140’ beneath the input box being the clue. He then moves to tell us all how he didn’t really understand it.

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  • Sun Startup Essentials: An Interesting Deal For Start-Ups

    Sun Startup Essentials: An Interesting Deal For Start-UpsIt’s possible that some people reading this won’t have heard of Sun. They’re a big computer company that has gone through many iterations (during the dotcom boon their moto was “The computer is the network”).

    We’ve covered a background below to get you up to speed on Sun, but before that, we’ve got an overview on the Sun Startup Essentials, which is aimed at start-ups.

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  • Pownce: Shutting Shop On 15 December

    Pownce: Shutting Shop On 15 DecemberPownce, a competitor to Twitter, has announced that it is shutting the service on 15 December – Just two weeks notice.

    The two main people behind the service, Leah Culver and Mike Malone, will be going to work with blog company, Six Apart.

    Two more of the Pownce team, Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka will be all ‘la de da’ and become advisers to Six Apart.

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  • Yahoo: Top Searches of 2008 Published

    Yahoo: Top Searches of 2008Yahoo has published their “Year in Review,” covering search over 2008.

    They’re keen to point out that it isn’t just what the top 10 searches were, but Top 10s of lots of catagories.

    Beyond the Top 10s there’s also some analysis of what those things could have meant.

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  • Twollow: Auto Follow People Who Twitter On Your Interests

    Twollow: Auto Follow People Who Twitter On Your InterestsIf you’re looking to expand your network of Twitter friends, but are finding that it’s taking more time that you thought it would, or aren’t able to find that time, Twollow could be a solutions for you.

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  • UK National Rail Booking System Down

    UK National Rail Booking System DownIf you’re planning on ordering a UK train ticket online today, you’re out of luck, by the looks of it.

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  • Gmail Introduces GMail Voice And Video Chat

    Gmail Introduces GMail Voice And Video Chat The all-encompassing entity known as Google continues its onslaught into our lives with the launch of voice and video chat inside their popular Gmail email service.

    To get your browser buzzing with all that juicy chat/video action, it’s simply a case of pointing your browser here and downloading the free (Windows XP or later only – Mac coming later) plug.

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  • Twitter: WSJ Says It’s Now Mainstream: Is That A Good Thing?

    Twitter: WSJ Says It's Now Mainstream: Is That A Good Thing?We know that Twitter gets under people’s skin, leading some of them to tweet their little sock off across many subjects from their view of emerging new business idea, through their inner most thoughts, to their love of sandwiches. Some people even get their houses to Twitter, like IBM Tech Boffin, Andy Stanford-Clark, on the Isle of Wight.

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