I’ve spent the last few minutes checking out TuneIn a cool new web based Twitter client that has some great new features such as separating the media out from you stream so your can see it more easily (see the screenshot below) and allowing you to make lists of people you follow and have them [...]
Google to Newspapers: Take your toys and go home!
July 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’m constantly amazed but never shocked by the constant departures into utter idiocy undertaken by main stream media, in this case a number of European newspapers who have become signatories of the “Hamburg Declaration”. (Scroll down to the “Note to Editors” to see the declaration). The following extract is the piece that got my attention, [...]
Google playing with music search again?
May 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’d almost forgotten that Google has a search operator “music:” that when put in front of a query will bring up information about the artists, songs and albums you’re searching for. However, what did surprise me today, was getting the same results as searching for “music: Nickelback” simply by searching for Nickelback on Google.com. Check [...]
First The Pirate Bay, next Google?
April 17, 2009 By 11 Comments
You might think I’m taking the piss but I assure you that I’m not. I’ve just read the AP piece about the 4 guys from The Pirate Bay getting convicted for facilitating users to illegally download music, movies and video games. Now, while I fully believe that this ruling will be overturned by the higher [...]
4 steps to the ultimate Google search
March 31, 2009 By 5 Comments
There’s nothing like a quick Google search for bringing information from all over the web to your eyeballs in an instant. However as great as Google is, it doesn’t always give you the complete picture. Help is at hand and with this collections of greasemonkey scripts and Firefox plugins, I’ll show you how to have [...]
Maybe I'm stupid but…
September 20, 2008 By 2 Comments
Why doesn’t the @replies button on Twitter show all tweets that contain @pauloflaherty? At the moment it shows only the ones that have @pauloflaherty at the start of the tweet. If it’s at the middle or at the end then it doesn’t show. I know I can search for tweets that have @pauloflaherty in them, [...]
Why the sudden resurgence of interest in Xeeber?
April 11, 2008 By 2 Comments
Am I missing something here. Back in August I wrote about Xeeber, a service which allowed you to see if users of the Yahoo Messenger client were online even though they had their status set to invisible. As far as I can tell the actual Xeeber (link does not work) service has been unavailable for [...]
User voting on search results could kill Google
November 29, 2007 By 14 Comments
Dramatic title I know but If Digg style voting on Google Search results becomes mainstream instead of experimental then I fear the end for Google. Don’t get me wrong, this could be great from the iGoogle point of view allowing you to tailor your search results to suit yourself. However, if Google decide to incorporate [...]
Blog Resource is back!
May 30, 2007 By Leave a Comment
That’s right! Blog Resource is back! Returned from beyond the grave. But it’s not what you might think! The first incarnation of Blog Resource was as a blog and podcast directory which became pretty popular. You could say it became too popular because Alec and I were forced to close it down as the demands [...]
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