Google’s Project Loon

Google are doing a lot of “10X innovation” right now. That is innovation that isn’t just incrementally better than the competition (like a 10% improvement) but a moon-shot, 10-times improvement. One of these initiatives is called Project Loon: You can sometimes see these balloons being tested off the coast of Christchurch, New Zealand, on FlightRadar, […]

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Mozilla Launches Firefox OS 1.0 Simulator

I’ve spoken of my excitement for Firefox OS before, but now Mozilla have released version 1.0 of the operating system simulator into the wild. An entirely-web-based operating system poses an enticing, compelling experience for the user; an experience known as “continuous client” because it follows you across your devices as if you were using the […]

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Whatever You’re Good At, Graph It

What are you good at? What do you, or your business, do best? Is there something you do better than anybody else? Once you have identified your specialism, turn it into a graph. TL;DR: I predict that graphs will become the standard way of storing and sharing information. And that providing graphs containing useful information such […]

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Is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Twitter?

Is Amazon Founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos on Twitter? Only, I did a quick search and could only find the guy to the right. And I don’t think that’s him. I mean, I doubt he’d post 66.6% of his total Tweet count in French. Plus, he’s not verified. That’s what really tipped me off. Jeff! […]

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Twitter Borked

I’ve spent the last half hour clicking a “Download” link in Hotmail trying to get something to… ahem… download, but it just sits there doing nothing. Absolutely sod all. Naturally, I switch to Twitter, fully intending to spout some completely disproportionate rant involving lava and fire and incurable, groin-rotting STDs aimed squarely at Microsoft’s Online […]

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Google Launches Chrome Packaged Apps

Google has announced the release of Chrome version 22 to developers. The exciting thing about this version is Chrome Packaged apps: a mechanism which allows web applications to behave much more like native applications, blurring the lines between the two. Packaged apps are installed for offline use by default and also open up new low-level […]

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Twitter v2.0

There is a lot of talk around at the moment about Twitter’s new stance on 3rd party applications integrating with the service. Twitter has pretty much banned clone applications like Tweetbot, and went as far as buying Tweetdeck for $40 million. Twitter says it doesn’t want third party developers to “build client apps that mimic or […]

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