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Let The Web Get You Home

I’m about to take my cold and try to get home through Tube-free London. The lovely folks over at the Media Guardian blog have put together a list of some of the more interesting sites relating to travel, particularly in London. For the majority of the country not stuck in London, I apologise - although […]

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More Women On The Web. And?

There’s already been a lot of coverage of the new research from Ofcom about the changing media usage of the UK population. The main findings were:

The over 65s spend more time online than any other age group
Time spent on the (home) phone, watching TV & listening to the radio are all down since 2002
People […]

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BBC Gets Social: Adds Social Boomark Chicklets

The BBC, which has taken user generated content to heart, has now taken a step into the world of user selected content, or social news & bookmarking sites.
We noticed today that the BBC have finally added the social bookmarking chicklets that are already ubiquitous on many other sites. Whilst this feels a little bit like […]

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Facebook On The iPhone

Those lucky enough to have an iPhone can now use a specially designed version of Facebook, the ubiquitous social networking site. Simply point your iPhone browser at iphone.facebook.com. If, like us in the UK you’re still waiting for the iPhone, visiting the page in Firefox and resizing your browser to mimic the iPhone’s screen will […]

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Ten Best British Start-Ups. But Why The Stupid Names?

Following its relaunch, The Guardian’s Technology section continues to pump out great articles. It’s latest is a list of the top 10 British start-ups right now.
Our personal favourite is Moo, which allows you to quickly, easily & cheaply turn your online photos (such as Flickr galleries) into business cards & sticker books. My Flickr sticker […]

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2.0 Web Trends Map (again)

So, we seen this type of thing before but here’s another Web 2.0 trends map. This time, it’s based on the Tokyo Subway and nicely includes German, Japanese and Chinese sites that are super-popular.
Pretty tough to understand or navigate, but then hey, so’s Tokyo…

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Getting Sphinn on the Sociable Wordpress Plugin

We’re big fans of Danny’s new social search news site and wanted to make sure it was added to the plugin that we use for our social bookmarking, Sociable.
To get it included just follow these steps:

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Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, MSN & MySpace: Everything’s Connected In Web 2.0

One of things I love about the internet is the fact that I am constantly finding new sites that I love and also, that I am constantly challenged, and often proved wrong.
I’ve been telling anyone who would listen (following a conversation with my colleague Chungaiz) that Facebook would be sold this year for $1 billion. […]

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Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No, It’s An SEO!

A story in The Guardian caught my eye this morning, mainly because it covers my two most geeky obsessions: Web 2.0 & comics.
Apparently DC Comics, the publisher of titles such as Superman & Batman, are launching a new site which aims to find the Bob Kanes & Jerry Siegels of tomorrow: Zudacomics will allow up […]

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Why New Media Isn’t New Anymore

I’ve been meaning to write-up some more notes from the recent Online Marketing Show for a while now, but just haven’t had the time. But what I can do, is look at how some of the issues it raised are reflected in the real world.
One of the speakers at the OMS, on the Highly Recommended […]

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