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Folks struggling to make sense of the excellent WordPress content management system (the very thing that powers this ‘umble website) may be pleased to see that coder extraordinaire Joost de …
WordPress explained in a natty infographic Read MoreHere’s a lovely video clip showing French children trying to work out what various bits of old technology were used for.
French kids try to work out what old music technology does Read MoreOnce the unrivalled heavyweight of the social networking scene, MySpace continues to suffer a calamitous decline in traffic, with a dreadful redesign doing nothing to stave off the mass exodus of users.
MySpace continues to slide into oblivion, big cuts mooted Read MoreHuzzah! It looks like we’ve got time for one more infographic before the year’s out, and this one comes filled with facts from the sharing widget AddThis, which is installed …
Facebook bags 44% of online sharing, MySpace continues path to oblivion Read More
It seems that an awful lot of people are currently unable to access their Facebook accounts – and we’re one of them.
Facebook is unavailable due to a ‘site issue’ Read MoreMuch as we love the Amazon Kindle for reading eBooks, when it comes to surfing websites the experience is a lot less joyful.
Soup up your Amazon Kindle surfing experience with Kinstant Read MoreThis fascinating map tracking Facebook relationships has been put together by Paul Butler, an intern on Facebook’s spoddy sounding ‘data infrastructure engineering team’ (we bet they’re a heap of fun …
Facebook’s global relationships visualised in a natty map Read MoreLaunched by a video with the quirk-o-meter cranked up high, YouTube have announced their new ‘Trends’ page that displays the most popular videos and topics being shared on the site …
YouTube Trends shows off the global hot’n’happening videos Read MoreAccording to figures released by the video sharing kings YouTube, no less than 700 billion YouTube videos were viewed in 2010, with more than 13 million hours of footage uploaded.
YouTube Rewind 2010 unveils the big video hits of 2010 Read MoreFresh up on Twitter’s own blog is their list of the biggest Trends of the year, compiled from the 25 billion Tweets that were sent in 2010. Describing Twitter Trends …
25 billion Tweets sent in 2010, top trends revealed Read MoreThere’s never been a better time to to buy dSLRs and mirrorless digital cameras, but trying to find out what lenses will best suit both your camera and your shooting …
Find the right lens for your digital camera with Lenshero Read MoreSometimes, social media can bite back at the corporates trying to take advantage of it, and a particularly splendid example can be seen with Vodafone’s hideously backfiring Twitter campaign.
Vodafone get bitten by Twitter as protesters take over competition page Read MoreBack in October, Virgin Media announced that it would soon start rolling out its super-fast 100Mb broadband service, and the company has now named the lucky areas who are first …
Virgin Media 100Mb broadband takes off – are you in luck? Read More
DAB radio dons Pure have slammed down the fifth member of the One family, christened it the Pure One Flow, and promised hot web connectivity at a fairly modest price.
Pure One: world’s cheapest internet-connected radio arrives Read More
The UK media is famed for screaming, “SNOW CHAOS!” whenever 0.2cm of snow gently dusts the land, but with big snowfalls forecasted for the coming week, a new site has …
UK snow map shows where the white stuff is falling Read More