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Marketing internet bods HubSpot wanted to find out what difference a profile picture made to the popularity of a Twitter account, so set about analysing the figures. Digging into Twitter …
Want more Twitter followers? Add a photo. Quick! Read MoreWe like this one, mixing up some daft April Fool’s japery with a bit of product advertising. In the videos, Qualcomm claim that their Mirasol screen device – ‘stolen from their …
Butterflies attack! Qualcomm release April Fool’s jape Read MoreGoogle has confirmed that future versions of its Google Chrome browser will integrate Adobe’s Flash plug-in. The move looks set to aggravate relations with Apple a little further, who have …
Google Chrome to offer built-in Flash support. Apple quietly fumes. Read MoreIf you fancy flicking through a frothing fountain of formidable Facebook facts, foregathered in a fancy factsheet, you’re in for a feast here. The Website Monitoring Blog have compiled a …
A formidable feast of Facebook facts and figures Read MoreWell, it’s a Friday so what could be better than a Chatroulette version of Lady Gaga’s smash hit, ‘Telephone’? The original video – all nine preposterous minutes of it – …
Lady Gaga: Telephone, Chatroulette version. Get down! Read MoreWeb research and usability bod Jakob Nielsen has posted up a blog entry called, “Scrolling and Attention,” which concludes that web designers are better off shoving all the important content …
Bloggers, businesses and web authors: keep your content above the fold – or else! Read MoreWith an almost-new hard drive catastrophically failing in our office only last week, we’ve never been so aware of the fragility of our precious data – and the need to …
CrashPlan triumphs in comparison of online backup services Read MoreWe’re already sick and tired of the ludicrous levels of hype being generated for the non-multi-tasking, non-expandable memory, camera-free, walled garden that is the iPad, so we welcome anything that …
Apple iPad gets well and truly parodied Read MoreThis delightful cartoon from Google Japan shows how the Google Street View is created, with a cute little camera-bot rolling through a landscape of wooden trees and buildings. It’s all …
Google Street View- Japan cartoon style! Read MoreIf you’ve only a passing interest in Britain’s railways, its architecture or industrial past, you should find Subterranea Brittanica’s Closed Stations site an invaluable and compelling resource.
Disused Stations: the melancholic romance of abandoned railway lines Read MoreThe BBC has teamed up with the bods at Facebook, Bebo and Twitter to add social networking options in the next update to their excellent iPlayer, which allows viewers to …
BBC iPlayer 3.0 to include Facebook and Twitter integration Read MoreIt’s been a long time since Internet Explorer was our first choice of browser, but things have been steadily improving since IE6’s near-undisputed reign as the worst browser ever released. …
Microsoft previews Internet Explorer 9, packed with HTML5 goodness Read MoreThere’s a lot to be concerned about the Digital Economy Bill that is being pushed through the law-making process with unseemly haste. In response, an activist website has sprung up …
Activist site urges users to email MPs to block Digital Economy Bill Read MoreYou must have all seen endless versions of the now-legendary ‘Fuhrer’ videos, where alternative captions are added to the powerful scene from the 2004 German-language movie titled “Downfall.” There’s been …
Fuhrer video takes on cloud security for the techie LOLz Read MoreAs a thousand over-excited fanboy bloggers squealed with expectant iJoy as Apple went through its usual charade of closing its online store for a minor upgrade, snack food supremos Doritos …
iPad goes on pre-order, Doritos scores a hit with an excellent parody Read More