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  • Dropbox outage shows the fragility of the cloud

    Cloud storage and file-hosting service Dropbox suffered a severe service outage this week that began on Friday night and, as I write these words on Saturday evening UK time, is still continuing. If you go to the Dropbox website, you’ll…

  • Is a (search) picture worth a thousand words?

    I’ve been having some fun this morning with Jelly. Jelly is a new mobile search service announced yesterday that works via apps for Android and iOS. The company was co-founded by Biz Stone, one of the original founders of Twitter.…

  • Is your Facebook profile enough to prove your ID?

    One thing synonymous with air travel is declaring your identity, usually in the form of a passport or citizen ID card, depending on the country and other factors. In some countries, you can manage just fine with a driving license…

  • The mutual value of the conversation

    The stats helper monkeys have been busy, said WordPress in an overnight email telling me about “Your 2013 in blogging,” a concise analysis of this blog during the year as noted by the stats module in Jetpack, the uber-plugin utility…

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  • Be cool with social media logos

    Here’s a quick just-before-New-Year quiz – which one of these is the correct Twitter logo? I see them all over the web, especially the text one and the ‘t’ image. None of them is correct. Today, there is only one…