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Year: 2010

  • Over 100k Irish Twitter User Accounts

    Looks like the Irish media (both online and offline) are all excited about the latest useless statistic Seemingly there are over 100 thousand Irish Twitter “users”. How they reached that figure is beyond me.. Probably based on what the users have stated in their location. Or maybe Twitter have provided data? In any case it’s…

  • Hollywood To Make Google Film?

    I guess it’s inevitable that someone somewhere would want to make a film about Google. If Facebook gets its own film, then Google should have its own … According to a recent article in the Telegraph plans are afoot for a film based on the book “Googled: The End of the World As We Know…

  • Twifficiency Shows How NOT To Use Twitter’s OAuth

    Twitter, in common with other social networking sites and services, has an authentication system. In Twitter’s case it’s called OAuth and it allows you, as a user, to give applications and service access to your account. For an application or service to function correctly it might need to gather information from your Twitter stream. Maybe…

  • FourSquare – Stalker’s Paradise?

    Foursquare allows you to post and share your location. Depending on where you are and how adventurous the businesses are in the area, you might get the odd discount or special offer for doing so .. But there is a potential downside to oversharing your location with the world.. It’s not a new topic, but…

  • You’re Going To See the Film – Now Get the Degree..

  • Facebook the Movie?

    It’s not enough that Facebook and its founder get splashed around in the mainstream media day in, day out .. now Hollywood wants us to watch a movie .. There’s a couple of versions of the trailer floating around. The first one (below) gives a few headlines and doesn’t show any real action: The second…