28th Apr 2010

FormSpring.me

I’ve sat and watched Formspring come from nothing, and become mildly popular in 2010. It’s a a Question and Answers site, that allows someone to create a page that allows totally random people to post questions anonymously. Now instantly I could see that this was going to be nothing but trouble. There is constantly issues [...]

24th Apr 2010

Bill’s Guide

I found this via twitter – I think it’s worth a read for anyone who is involved in the interwebs. Hello, my name is Bill and welcome to my guide to the internet. Basically, everything on the internet is rubbish but I will try to pinpoint the main areas to avoid. Read more here

18th Apr 2010

Foursquare

Foursquare is a relatively new idea in the whole social media / augmented reality game. It relies upon smart phone technology (Wireless Internet + GPS locating)  to confirm and allow you to “Checkin” at businesses all over the world. Foursquare allows you to continue to Check in every time you’re at a venue / business [...]

25th Oct 2009

Facebook’s super social behavior

Since the beginning of  Facebook, the general goal has been for users of the service to “connect” with each other via the facebook website. After facebook really boomed in Australia by about 2007-2008, it was already pretty popular elsewhere, and since the growth of facebook was so enourmous they have been able to continue to [...]

20th Oct 2009

Google Wave in 2 Mins

One of the highlights of Web Directions this year (which I have been too busy to blog about) was that all attendees were issued something that’s scarce among web folk, and that’s a Google Wave invite. Google Wave is only in BETA / Preview at the moment, and only open to a very select few. [...]