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An earlier gush on Twitter (I refuse to pander by calling it a twush or anything equally facile) provoked a couple of replies, revealing that I’m not alone in my admiration for Google’s Chrome browser.
I came to it late – about two weeks ago, truth be told. I’d been struggling with IE, and have never [...]

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Just noticed this box on the BBC site as it prepares to cover the Oscars. It’s the first time I’ve seen them directly embed tweets into a story.

Looking at the actual feed page it seems like there’s a problem – an 11 hour-time lag between a tweet and its appearance on the BBC page.
That and [...]

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Less is more, and I’d pay Facebook a micro-subscription if they’d take away the adverts.

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**Updated below**
I got a worrying email last night from a friend and ex-colleague, letting me know that he’d had a phishing message purportedly from my Last.FM account.
Oops, we both thought – I’d been hacked. I went in and changed my password.
I subsequently discovered an email to me ‘from’ another colleague that also looks very much [...]

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve always thought that the BBC News website could do with a lift in the search engines. After all, the site just never appears in the search results and hardly seems to get any traffic.
Anyway, as editor Steve Herrmann explained in November, the BBC is finally embracing some basic [...]

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I’m 37. Facebook knows it, and you get to set an age range when you’re placing adverts like this:

FAIL.

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Right, it isn’t interesting, but for the sake of background here’s the story behind Handolio. Back in 1998 or something when I was twatting around playing internet games at Bullfrog, I used the moniker Handles, after an accidental/deliberate mis-appellation in a record company rejection letter we once got.
But as the games got popular, more people [...]

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Skim the article, then read the first two comments.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/jan/30/us-box-office-preview-monsters-vs-aliens
(via @christt, via @davidahughes)

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I’m none too convinced by social networking, but I’m a happy advocate of Flickr and Last.FM, both of which are built around something I care about. Even there, though, people are sometimes unfathomable.
Take this picture of Toyota’s iQ climbing a wall in Paris. It’s good enough that we used it in a blog post about [...]

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