CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, took place in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago and some of the world’s biggest technology companies used the event to reveal yet more ways their gadgets will force us to socialise with each other in 2013. Smart fridge Samsung’s T9000 Four-Door Refrigerator is interesting for two reasons. The [...]
SQUAWK! It’s Social Media Week 2011! This week, every mover and shaker from the world of social media will be gathering together, online and off, for one helluva jamboree. Social Media Week is the global event for all those who work in, think about, or use social media – an unmissable opportunity to chew the [...]
A quick guide to the bits and bobs you may have missed this week, while you were doing that stuff you do. Yikes! Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook fan page was hacked – now ain’t that ironic? Shortly afterwards – and entirely coincidentally we’re certain – Facebook announced its plan to offer secure HTTPS connections. Meanwhile, while [...]
This week, we present a bespoke selection of newsy fripperies which you may have missed on account of that other stuff you were doing. We like to think we’re doing our bit for the Big Society, and that this is the ‘Tensies equivalent of reading the newspaper to the infirm. Post-digital social-media fun, but with [...]
Each week, Kate Williams ponders the world of tech and social media. This week, she spots a flaw in Google’s plan for driverless cars. This week, Google announced they had been secretly building and testing cars which drive themselves. I know! It’s very exciting. According to their blog, “Our automated cars use video cameras, radar [...]
Each week, Kate Williams ponders the world of social media. Today, Zuckerberg lets her down. My friends, it’s a story of hope betrayed. As you may remember, I recently made a fragile (and generously unilateral) peace with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. It felt good. Privately, I indulged a gorgeous reverie, in which he and I [...]
image via media bistro Each week, Kate Williams ponders the world of social media. Today, she worries about teenage kicks. Twitter was very nearly brought to its bony little bird-knees last week, after a particularly virulent worm infected 10% of its users, crippling the microblogging site for several hours. Hapless victims needed only to hover [...]
Each week, Kate Williams ponders the world of social media. Today, she’s a bit doubtful about phased rollouts. Dizzy excitement this week, as Twitter sloughed off the dry husk of its former self to reveal the irridescent butterfly beneath. After many months of hints and winks, it seems that the New Twitter is as sparkly [...]
Each week, Kate Williams ponders the world of social media. Today, she dissects Twitter’s brain. Blimey, 3% of Twitter is Justin Bieber. I don’t think I need to explain who The Biebster is, but in case you’ve been stuck in a pop-cultural mineshaft for a couple of years, Justin Bieber is a peri-pubertal pop sensation [...]
Each week, Kate Williams ponders the world of social media. Today, she considers this Ping thing. The night before last, Apple CEO Steve Jobs – or The Sun King, as he’s known in my head – introduced the waiting world to the latest addition to his Imperial Line. It was an illustrious occasion, carrying with [...]