Social Media ‘Professional’ Fires Twitter Ghostwriter, Forgets To Change Password, Hilarity Ensues – AllTwitter (twitter public_relations mistake ) A New Job | Joanna Geary (jobs guardian the_times ) Neutrino stories move faster than the speed of science | by Martin Robbins @mjrobbins | Science | guardian.co.uk (physics science media ) Putting out the FiRe | [...]
A New Job | Joanna Geary (jobs guardian the_times ) Draw a Stickman (animation fun drawing ) Facebook Employee Reveals Killer Facebook Music Feature In Deleted Tweet | TechCrunch (facebook music mistake launch ) http://blog.dorries.org/id-1977-2011_9_Miss_Popularitynot.aspx (nadine_dorries ) Facebook, the New AOL (facebook aol social_media ) InfoQ: When the Pressure Is Really On: A “Rough and [...]
A New Job | Joanna GearyGreat stuff for Joanna and the Guardian. "As you may have heard, I will be leaving The Times at the beginning of October to start a new role at The Guardian as their Digital Development Editor." (jobs guardian the_times ) Draw a StickmanAbsolutely brilliant interactive animation. (animation fun drawing ) [...]
Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites • The RegisterAARGH! "Researchers have discovered a serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to silently decrypt data that's passing between a webserver and an end-user browser." (security hacking paypal ssl ) Borders Employees Vent Frustration – [...]
Google +1 = -2"Either way, the numbers for +1 really aren't big enough to justify all the fuss at this stage – though I appreciate this is going to be a long game and we're only just starting out." (google social_media bbc ) Facebook roll out some more huge Google + style changes to news [...]
Daily Mail lifts from WP, then asks its reporter for help finding photo | Poynter."The Daily Mail liked Steve Hendrix’s story in the Washington Post about an F-16 pilot who was ready to give her life on 9/11 so much that it rewrote it. They also liked his story from Thursday’s Post, but needed some [...]
Inventor James Dyson launches heater that cannot burn you | Technology | The Guardian"The Dyson Hot does have a number of features that will appeal to the average householder, and especially parents: you cannot burn yourself on it (because none of the exposed parts gets hot), it will cut out if knocked over, the fan [...]
Introducing Twitter Web Analytics | Twitter Developers"Today we’re announcing Twitter Web Analytics, a tool that helps website owners understand how much traffic they receive from Twitter and the effectiveness of Twitter integrations on their sites. Twitter Web Analytics was driven by the acquisition of BackType, which we announced in July." (twitter statistics metrics web_analytics launch [...]
If you want to create jobs at home, don’t rely on startups | Technology | The Observer"The New York Times's Thomas Friedman was wrong to suggest we put our faith in new technology companies" Good points by John Naughton (and Samuel Johnson, and Andy Grove, and Jimmy Hoffa). (globalisation economics startups apple patriotism ) Algorithmic [...]
Mobile operators will lose voice services to mobile platforms — Mobile Technology News"It only takes one carrier to crack and start selling bandwidth to Google, Microsoft or Apple; all other carriers will simply have no choice but to follow." (telcos mobile future ) Are You Building The Right Product? – TechCrunchBrilliant insight into measuring success, [...]
