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Category Archive for 'internet'
Uninstall
Posted in internet, technology on Apr 2nd, 2012
Uninstall.
Spotify; fixed and more broken in the same update
Posted in internet, technology on Mar 13th, 2012
Great though the idea of legal music streaming is, the implementation still leaves a bit to be desired. After six or seven years as a Napster customer I ended up leaving the (increasingly unloved and dated) service when they messed up my monthly payments for the second time. Onto Spotify, about which a few things [...]
Facebook, why do you mock me?
Posted in digression, internet on Dec 8th, 2011
Everyone I’ve spoken to hates Facebook’s ‘frictionless sharing’ thing. You know, the thing that shows you every single article your friends are reading on supported sites. On the occasions when the story sounds interesting, you click the link and get asked to install a social reader, rather than just taken to the story. Install the [...]
Meet the TYPE-IN™ – and want to kill it
Posted in internet, marketing, technology on Sep 30th, 2011
Advertisers want to know if you’re human or machine, while turning you into the latter
Pebblehashing
Posted in internet on May 12th, 2011
Verb: The practice of adding as many hashtags to a tweet as possible. Possibly more.
Linked in is going through my bins
Posted in digression, internet, technology on Jan 19th, 2011
I didn’t used to get worried about privacy on social media sites. I don’t tell them much about me, so they don’t have a lot to reveal/sell/give to third-party developers or whatever. But they’re getting weirder. I’ve never, for example, told Facebook where I live, although it obviously knew when I joined the city’s group. [...]
Hide all updates… hidden?
Posted in internet on Nov 4th, 2010
I’m not into games on Facebook, so I generally don’t care which ones my friends are playing. Happily there used to be an option to hide all the updates from a given application, by clicking the cross in the top right and selecting ‘hide all updates from…’ Lately this has disappeared, which is bad news [...]
Aren’t companies great? Every now and then, when shopping online, no matter how fastidiously you tell them you don’t want to hear from them, they decide that you do. I love getting these emails. They almost invariably contain a codicil explaining that you’re receiving the email because you signed up to receive it. Almost invariably [...]
This is great; an error message from Google (in US English) telling me it couldn’t provide content in my language (UK English). I’ve whinged about regional settings before, but it turns out I’m bilingual. Who knew?