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“Face-roulette anyone”…or are you just tired of Facebook?

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While it won’t randomly connect you to a friend,at first glance it looks like Facebook is taking a leaf out of Chatroulette’s book by launching In-Browser Video Chat next week…or is it?

Reports from TechCrunch suggest it will be in partnership with Skype after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tipped off Seattle press that the company [...]

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With 37,506 Mazes it is still the World’s Biggest Pacman

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Did a little bit of research on this one and it seems I’m a little slow on breaking the news about The World’s Biggest Pac-Man.

How it came about was a promotion to demonstrate HTML 5 and Internet Explorer 9.

But since its launch in April 2011, by Microsoft and NAMCO BANDAI (Home of Pac-Man & the [...]

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The Australian Browser Wars

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This post serves no other purpose then an opportunity to post this illustration that I thought (a) was a cracker and (b) just said it all. Found it on alt-tab.org, and it’s only fault is it doesn’t incorporate Safari or Opera.

However, after looking at statcounter and reviewing [...]

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60 Seconds on the Internet…

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My continuing love for Info-graphics have extended to this one done by a group of Shanghai Web Designers at a company called Go-Globe.com have posted on their blog “60 Seconds – Things That Happen On Internet Every Sixty Seconds”

They suggest that on average more than a billion new pages are [...]

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“Luke, I am your monkey….”

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I am in awe of the MailChimp team.

The way they market themselves to their existing users is just brilliant, and on the 4th of May they outdid themselves.

As many may know, May 4th several years ago became Star Wars day (May the 4th be with you).

And to celebrate MailChimp hosted [...]

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Watch out Karl Stefanovic, the iPhone is coming !!!

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In a previous post I wrote about how Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth, and how concern was being raised about the current campaign by much of the international press to spread panic over emissions of radiological material from nuclear power stations in Japan. The end of that article suggested, from a [...]

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The “P” in Social Networks

Sometimes you just have to break it down to something we all understand…

 

Source: gizmodo

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Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth, isn’t it?

Take a look at the images below.

They are of the same helicopter gathering water to assist in the nuclear emergency in the North of Japan.

The first headline was written by the Huffington Post. The second (the smaller picture) was by the BBC. [Source: U-110 via Reddit]

Over at [...]

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Wanted :: Social Media Intern with veins pumping #TigerBlood

Looking for something to do all night that allows you to you recover the next day just so you can do it again…

Charlie Sheen is now seeking a social media intern to manage one of the most legendary media meltdowns of all time so we can continue to watch it live.

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And with a handful of men, we’ll start all over again….

OK, maybe quoting the Artillery Man from Jeff Wayne’s musical version of The War of the Worlds was a bit dramatic, but on Feb 3rd the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that the “Available Pool of Unallocated IPv4 Internet Addresses (are) Now Completely Emptied” and “The Future Rests with IPv6″. [...]

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