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How to trick Google into Giving you Realtime Search.

February 19, 20121 Comment

As many of you will already be aware, with the Twitter deal going down the tubes Google realtime disappeared into the ether a while back. As Google build out their +1 service, undoubtedly it will make a return somewhere in the future for all of us. There is however, the alternative – Google offer a [...]

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10 Common Mistakes with Social Media

February 17, 20120 Comments

Often with social media, brands and businesses think they can just jump in and get going. I mean how hard can it be? Often the results are less than favourable, with users either breaking core guidelines of the marketing platform they choose, or worse still ending up with a PR disaster that can’t be erased [...]

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Bravery is where innovation goes to make babies.

February 16, 20120 Comments

Airing during the Grammy’s this recently released ad from Google tells the story of lost memories. Like most great stories,  the script behind this ad was conceived from real life, actually from one of the team members on the Google+ team. All of us can relate to a similar event somewhere in our lives where [...]

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Social Media’s Increasing Role in Fighting Crime.

February 12, 20120 Comments

Social media may lead the charge in reporting, but this in turn has also given power back to everyday people in the combatting and the reporting of crime.

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Speakpipe – Offering a new way to listen to your customers.

February 9, 20121 Comment

URL: https://www.speakpipe.com Have you ever wanted to actual hear your customers directly? Traditionally, we take it as a given that communication online with customers is typically through some form of e-mail. A startup which is turning that notion on its head is SpeakPipe, which offers the ability to embed a widget on your site which lets [...]

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3 Niche Grabbing Sites Similar to Pinterest

February 8, 20121 Comment

Good artists copy, great artists steal. Right? Sometimes its possible to grab the internet’s attention by flipping an established concept on its head by concentrating on a subset of an audience

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If targeted advertising is the currency of free. I’ll pay.

February 2, 20121 Comment

If you are as much a techhead as me, no doubt you’ll notice that this week, the web has been all a swirl with a couple of meaty main topics.  Facebook’s recent S1 filing, Google’s introduction of Search Plus Your World and decision to change their privacy policy to consolidate data about you and me across [...]

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ScreenLeap – Hassle free screen sharing with friends.

February 2, 20122 Comments

URL: www.screenleap.com Sometimes, web applications get bogged down in the tedium of registrations / corporate jibber jabber  and other such clutter. Its refreshing to see that ScreenLeap, the recently launched screen sharing application has avoid all of that hassle, and makes sharing your screen within anyone around the world absolutely effortless. There are alternative solutions [...]

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11 innovative solutions to bring real time push to your webapp

February 2, 20120 Comments

Looking for easier ways to implement real time push? Search no more.

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Hackers Build Siri Clone in an Afternoon.

January 31, 20120 Comments

Following a Quora thread asking exactly how hard it would be to implement an Apple Siri clone from scratch, NiobiumLabs alongside some  students of the National Technological University of Athens decided to have a bash at exactly that. Utilising freely available open source tools, the team managed to create a working clone of Siri in just an afternoon. [...]

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