From the monthly archives:

March 2009

What is #suckupsunday?

by Chris on March 31, 2009

Over the weekend I discovered #suckupsaturday on Twitter, aparently its a chance to “suck up” to the tweeps you forgot to tweet about on #followfriday.

To see keep upto date with the latest and most popular  memes (or twemes) check out twemes.com and twitscoop.com

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Wikia Search Canned

by Chris on March 31, 2009

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Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia announced today that his user generated search engine Wikia search will be closed down.

While the idea of a social search engine was an interesting concept, the results on Wikia search when I have used it have been terrible. Whales said today that the project is still one or two years away from being usable by the public and that the search engine was receiving an average of 10.000 uniques a month.

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SMS Question & Answer Services Reviewed

by Chris on March 30, 2009

message received I have just finished watching BBC’s Watchdog review UK text Q&A services.

Watchdog focused on the three largest suppliers: 118 118 (the market leader in the UK), Textperts (recently taken over by 118118) and AQA (Any Question Answered) 63336.

Watchdog which is a weekly consumer affairs programme in the UK, received complaints from viewers concerning the quality of responses, so they decided to investigate.
Keep reading…

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Twitters long road to profitability

by Chris on March 30, 2009

twitter_owlIn the last week (pretty much since this hoax),  blogs have been awash with speculation about Twitters long awaited business plan.

The most commonly promoted idea is a paid for premium account that would offer some form of expanded functionality;  like unlimited API credits or more characters per message. While I have no doubt that online marketers would snap up these features only a tiny percentage of normal users would be interested.
Keep reading…

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