I started to write this article a while ago and promptly forgot about it so apologies for the slightly out of date start…
I was reading in the Metro the other day how Bear Scotland are planning on using Twitter to send motorists traffic status Tweets during the M8 upgrade. First of all I thought Cool, secondly I thought But wait, how do you get them? Read more…
There was much interest last month in a report written by a 15 year old boy who was on a work placement with Morgan Stanley in which he claimed that teens do not use twitter. This statement was the catalyst to the start of a debate about who does use twitter? Many people may have taken it for granted that it must have been teens that were using it as Twitter was in the social media group an area which is largely dominated by young people online. Read more…
When my Fiance told me Lance Armstrong was Twittering from on ‘the Tour’ I was really impressed. ‘Really!?’ I said ‘from the actual tour?’ at my surprise he said ‘errr, yeah…why?’ ‘Well’ I said ‘surely it must affect his time if he has to steer with just one hand…’
Sometimes I don’t engage my brain before my mouth engages itself. Read more…
I heard on the radio this morning that there is a new phone directory service that lets you connect with people via their mobile phone number. The gist on the radio was “what if you forget a number? The you can go to 118800 and get it back”. Read more…
When I logged into this blog the other day and saw that there was a WordPress upgrade available a few things crossed my mind. Firstly I thought “Excellent, I wonder what new features it has?” and secondly, I wondered “If I upgrade will it mess up my site?”
Obviously I want to keep everything as current as possible but I was worried that by upgrading it would render some of my plugins inoperable (in that “this plugin has not been tested with your version” way). Read more…
You may have heard of a new Google competitor that’s new to the search market in the form of Wolframalpha.com Let’s clear that up. It’s not a search engine in the traditional sense. If you search for an edinburgh restaurant or a bed shop it is not going to return anything at all. Read more…
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