TechnoPhobia

Apple iPad: a solution waiting for a problem

This week’s announcement from Apple about their much awaited tablet PC was both unsurprising and disappointing.

29 January 2010

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Be a mini-murdoch

Are you mourning the decline of the newspaper industry? Do you feel that even hyperlocal has nothing to say specifically to you? Well thanks to the newspaperclub you can now have your very own newspaper printed.

8 January 2010

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FOWA ‘09 Hightlights

Once again the Future of Web Apps was a great event. For me it wasn’t the epiphany moment that it was last year when I found that I wasn’t the only person thinking about the things that dwell in the back of my mind - perhaps it was for others. But it was very enjoyable and many of the topics of discussion started me thinking again.

9 October 2009

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Links are for sharing

You might think that URL shortening services have been around for ages, from tinyurl.com, tr.im, url.ie to bit.ly. They allow you to shrink a url to a very few characters making it easier to share it with others via email, instant messenger, and most commonly twitter.

18 September 2009

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Public feedback and private help desk

A couple of years ago on-line feedback management services like GetSatisfaction and UserVoice started to provide wide-scale aggregation points for community discussion of brands, products and services and in doing so began shaking up the way customer service departments engaged with their customers.

11 September 2009

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lapel badges and avatars

Something happened last night that I haven’t been waiting for for quite a while. It might not seem that significant but I was interested when it would happen.

@timoreilly’s twitter avatar stopped being green.

28 August 2009

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