Category: Web

  • The army’s first-person shooter recruiter

    With its mixture of live-action video featuring real soldiers in combat and a first-person shooter games interface, Start Thinking Soldier is a powerful indicator of what it might be like as a soldier in a combat situation, presented in a…

  • Twitter traffic: What about mobile and third-party apps?

    Robin Goad’s post yesterday on what a Google-Twitter marriage might mean has some terrific data on Twitter traffic, like this chart which shows the growth in UK visits to twitter.com over the past year and especially in the first quarter…

  • Resonance

    I had a huge laugh at the idea of Flutter in “Think Microblogging is Hip? Try Nanoblogging!” and the rather good video parody on stereotype users of Twitter and other social networks. Especially this paragraph: […] people aren’t necessarily sick…

  • Twitter could be Googled

    [See April 4 Update 1 at end of post.] I suppose speculation that Google is in talks to acquire Twitter should surprise nobody. The story I saw early this morning in TechCrunch is based on information they say they have…

  • Easy audio blogging with Audioboo

    Here’s the coolest iPhone application I’ve found so far this year – Audioboo. What you do with Audioboo is simple: record audio on your iPhone and publish the recordings to your Audioboo account on the web, complete with your geo-location…