Unfortunately, I’ve found myself following this thought process before when it comes to updating social media. And yet, I still don’t get paid for doing it. Harumph.


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Imagine you logged into your social network of choice (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) and discovered that your list of friends and contacts had been changed by the social network to reflect who THEY thought you should be following, as opposed to who you had chosen.

That’s exactly what seems to be happening with Yammer, a social network aimed more at ( Read more... )

LinkedIn has become the defacto premiere website for making business connections, so as a consequence all these groups have sprung up promising to connect you to more and more people. I joined a few groups, but they weren’t quite what I was looking for. So I wanted to leave a group.

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Edit: Ahhh, the author behind The Handmaid’s Tale. Must read it one day.


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So Google Buzz has launched, and I’ve had a quick play with it.

Unfortunately, it’s done the same thing as many recent Google product launches - it hasn’t brought anything new to the table, aside from the sheer gargantuan amount of data it stores about me. And the only reason it has so much data about me is because I’m pretty much wedded to Google ( Read more... )

Various websites have poured scorn on a groom who updated his Facebook/Twitter accounts as soon as he got married.

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The thing is … I think it’s a mildly neat idea. In my ridiculous fantasy head of how I get married (and bearing in mind the fact I’d have friends/family on three continents who would probably want to see it happen, purely as ‘Finally ( Read more... )

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People carriers. They’re for married couples who have been overactive with their loins, and suddenly find themselves in charge of four screaming mini-me’s who they don’t really like, and so decide to keep them out of the house as much as humanly possible by keeping them active in endless football / karate / ballet lessons, which involve using up ( Read more... )