Tag Archives: Social Media

Will iPhone Apps replace the desktop… and the web?

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Carps

I’m sure I’m late to this whole thing (I blog once a week – in my underpants – and I really don’t know shit about technology) but having just had Windows 7 installed, I’ve just noticed that the “desktop” metaphor suddenly feels incredibly dated and stale. Continue reading →

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Tumblr is better than Twitter. Fact.

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Carps

I’ve been giving Twitter a hard time for ages now. It’s well documented that it is insecure (and I know for a fact that problems that got massive coverage a couple of weeks ago are still going strong) and for me it has no features to speak of… only limitations. Continue reading →

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Where Friends Reunited went wrong

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Carps

So Friends Reunited is in a fire sale> for a fraction of the reported £170,000,000 it was “worth” 5 years ago when ITV bought it. Continue reading →

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The Times goes all Web 2.0 and shit

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Carps

Noticed this little, Digg-style feature on The Times website this morning. Continue reading →

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