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ONE of the things that I love doing most with the various websites I use is automating their services. These automations are usually self-contained within a service or application, the way my Office email sends an auto-reply when I’m not in the office, or how my Twitter account automatically blocks certain users from sending me […]
In your honest and totally unbiased opinion, what is the right age for someone to be allowed to sign up for a Facebook account? Currently, in keeping with the United State’s 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Facebook only allows people aged 13 and above to sign up for its service. Yet, a study […]
IT’S 2011 and “social” is the buzz word. You have social networks to connect with people, social buying for the best deals and social gaming to take your gaming experience to a whole new level. It may be integrated into our lives, and we probably don’t think twice about how social we are anymore but […]
SNAPPING pictures and sharing them online is nothing new. But boy, have we come a long way from the early digital cameras and the first camera phones.
A while back, I wrote about using social media for social good.
Last week, I got into a bit of a lively debate with some techie friends of mine.
EARLIER this week, I came across a YouTube video which showed an eight-year-old girl in Egypt being asked what advice she would give to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Ah… can you smell that? Fresh new year. Brand new shiny stuff. And just the time to blow the dust off and clear the gunk from your old stuff. I’m probably one of the messiest people around, but I’m smart enough to know a good ol’ proper spring cleaning helps keep everything in order. The […]
A FRIEND of mine recently talked about how tough it was to communicate with teenagers today.
Last week, Apple announced it had sold 4.19 million iPads around the world in the last quarter and while it was some ways short of the five million Wall Street had expected, it’s still a big number.