I just realised I've been on Twitter for a whole year now! I signed up at the end of March 2009 after reading a blog post of Dave Gorman's wherein he explained the one-way connection system of Twitter, differentiating it from things like Facebook and MySpace where if you request to become 'friends'...
On Sunday morning I was at my computer, surfing the web and doing some programming. I kept an eye on Twitter, noticing that Dave Gorman was tweeting about the radio show he was broadcasting at the time (Absolute Radio). The theme of his show was people's odd routines & rituals; things they do all...
They say that you can learn more from two weeks in the Alps than you can kayaking a whole year in the UK. I can vouch for that after 3,298.7 miles, 8 countries, 13 rivers, 5 mountain bike trails, 2 rafting trips and half a day at Fontainebleau. Miles and I set off from Sheffield at about 1pm on the...
I'm now on Twitter. If you're one of the people who have heard of Twitter and you're terrified that it will be the new Facebook which is the new MySpace, then please calm down, this is not the case. No-one is going to leave Facebook to join Twiter, they are not the same thing. Facebook...
I've been blown away by so many things Google have done so far this year (and it's only March). They've done loads of work on Gmail which has incredibly made it even better; Gmail was already the best webmail service around, and it's been making life easier for millions of users all over the world...
Googlewhacking is a game of finding two words which, when entered into Google, return a single result. The words must exist in the dictionary (these are underlined in Google) and must not be in quotes - so Google simply searches for pages containing both of these words. If there is only one result,...