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Disclaimer - I dont agree with everything that I share here, links may just be something that I found of interest. This is a personal blog and does not necessarily reflect the views of my employer Guardian News & Media
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Blue Whale Song Mystery Baffles Scientists
Blue whales are singing in a lower voice all around the world, but scientists can’t figure out why.
What a lot of rubbish everyone is talking about Google and paywalls
The biggest load of old rubbish ever has been written about the changes to Google’s first click free program. Here’s a round up of who understands what they are talking about (and might survive…
Google Thinks Your Site Is Slow – Will Help You Fix It
Google has just launched Site Performance, a new tool that “shows you information about the speed of your site and suggestions for making it faster.”
Google states that faster sites do…
Google Turns To Twitter To Help Friend Connect Fly
Somedays, it seems like Facebook Connect is slowly taking over the web. It’s becoming so ubiquitous that it’s more surprising now to find a site that doesn’t allow you to log-in with your…
Introducing twitter’s first augmented reality iPhone app with geo-tagging built in.
Twitter 360 is an iPhone app that lets you visually see the flow of tweets from locations nearby, layered on top of your natural “real” environment.
Thanks to to the iPhone’s video camera…
Vibrating kettles: The power stations of the future?
Researchers at Bristol University want to harness power of vibration to provide free energy. From BusinessGreen.com, part of the Guardian Environment Network
A team at Bristol University…
What A Square Receipt Actually Looks Like
We’ve already had a number of posts about Square, the new mobile payment platform launched by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey today, but we’re going to keep posting on it, because it’s…
Online publishing, distribution and collaboration
Creating an online newswire:
It started with a task I set myself to find information on pirates in Somalia and filter it in a meaningful, but automated way, and send the result out to…
Don't put Johnston Press on trial over their paywall experiment
It is fashionable this week to write a blog post knocking Johnston Press for introducing paywalls on three of their local sites. I’m not going to do that, for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, the…
'Twitter' declared word of 2009
Global Language Monitor’s vast survey of print and social media places Twitter ahead of Obama and H1N1 as most used word
As world leaders prepare for the climate-change summit in Copenhagen…
Volunteering for SW Radio Africa
Following Gerry Jackson’s emotive appearance at the Activate Summit, members of The Guardian’s back room teams have been donating time to help SW Radio Africa
Over the last couple of weeks…
Introducing JobDASH - First Job App to Integrate with LinkedIn API
Full-Featured career management product part of LinkedIn early developer program
Why I Love Foursquare
IMPORTANT POINTSFoursquare recently launched in 50 new cities & is growing at a rate of more than 50% per month.
Foursquare wants to be the Netflix of places.
Structured datasets are the…
Adnams waste conversion plans move forward
A Suffolk brewery’s plans to convert its waste into fuel for its delivery vehicles could be given the green light now that planning officers have recommended it for approval.
