Facebook has been around a few years now, and has grown to be the undisputed king of social networks. However, with that they draw a lot of fire – particularly around their decidedly odd decisions around privacy, and their reactions to anyone who questions these decisions. Any new features they release are “opt-out” features, rather [...]
A few years ago I went for a job interview with a certain computer, personal media device, phone and software company. I had a hugely successful pre-interview with the HR girl, who talked me into wanting to chop off my own arm for this job. The interview was going to be the in UK with [...]
Literally months have passed since I first signed up to a new hope in social media, or at least that’s how it was sold to me. Threadsy.com is a new system that aims to “pull together” (get it?) various social media outlets and pipe them through a singular web2.0 interface, based on the web. This [...]
I know this has been discussed elsewhere on the blogosphere (which I believe is flat, rather then spherical) but I’ve yet to see an Irish site discuss it, or even be mentioned via twitter. So, I’ll point it out here. I’ve recently gotten into using foursquare, which is a service that utilises your mobile device [...]
In the wake of the announcement and launch, I feel utterly compelled to write a blog post about the new service from Google. It’s not long since the launch of Google Wave, a new service from Google to socially & semantically share content through a system that’s designed to, in essence, replace email. However, a [...]
