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Is Social Media Making Us More Dumber?

Is Social Media Making Us More Dumber?

Ever since I read this article about Scoble back in December of last year blogs have been at the forefront of my mind and specifically the fact that people are updating them less purely due to the fact that we are spending so much time on social media. I think that is a bad thing. [...]

Twitter : Where Are The Normal People?

Twitter : Where Are The Normal People?

Although Twitter has becoming increasingly popular in the last couple of years there do seem to be a certain amount of trends emerging as to who the people on the site actually are. We wanted to see who the people actually using it were and also find out why the normal man in the street [...]

The Ultimate Guide To Twitter

The Ultimate Guide To Twitter

So something that has become very popular in the last year has been making huge lists of different subjects around twitter but as with all things some are better than others. We did a quick search and found thousands of these lists so we decided to make a central resource of all the best lists [...]

New site launches – built 100% on Twitter

New site launches – built 100% on Twitter

Last week saw the launch of goodbuy.ie- an Irish site that lets you ‘find and share great deals’ in Ireland. But how is this different to your usual consumer information site? This one is built 100% on Twitter. The people behind goodbuy.ie originally ran it like any other deal site, adding offers and relying on [...]

Did Facebook Just Wipe Out Twitter By Adding A Simple @ Symbol?

Did Facebook Just Wipe Out Twitter By Adding A Simple @ Symbol?

Facebook just announced something that is going to shake through the whole social media scene and could just wipe Twitter off the map….they have added the ability to @reply your friends. Facebook (who recently got to fairly late stage discussions about acquiring Twitter) are very keen to get into the “real time” space and have [...]

How To Build A Personalized Search Engine Using Tweetdeck

How To Build A Personalized Search Engine Using Tweetdeck

As this blog has started to evolve and grow traffic wise (we hit 50,000 pageviews in August, 3 months after launch) we find ourselves looking for the latest news and trying to find angles on social media and tech stories that others have not yet spotted. There are many ways of finding the latest news [...]

Good And Bad Times To Tweet Out Links

Good And Bad Times To Tweet Out Links

You know the score…you have a great post that you have been meticulously writing for the last couple of days and you think that it is so amazing that once you tweet it out there is every chance that people will go wild and RT it about a hundred times except when you do tweet [...]

10 Most Distracting Online Services

10 Most Distracting Online Services

Most of us who spend our time online will find that we get distracted often by the huge range of online activities and applications that are now vying to get our attention. There are plenty of productivity tools that will help you avoid these distractions but ultimately you spend your time working in an environment [...]

Where Would You Turn To?

Where Would You Turn To?

Where did you turn to when your emails were down? Twitter Where would you turn to if the president had been shot? Twitter Where would you turn to for all the latest? Twitter Where would you turn to if a Nuclear bomb had been dropped? Twitter Where would you turn to if nothing’s on? Twitter [...]

Facebook Trying to Hijack Twitter Traffic

Facebook Trying to Hijack Twitter Traffic

At the start users used to have lots of ways of adding their twitter updates to their Facebook status updates but I spotted something interesting when logging in to Facebook just now in that Facebook really want you to do the same thing in reverse now using your Facebook status. When logging in to your [...]