by petehindle
June 10, 2010 in Blog, News Roundup
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The massive oil spill off the coast of the USA has inspired a web designer to create a Google Maps version of it. Using the website http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/ you can see the scale of the spill – note that if you centre it on Newcastle, it reaches to Ireland.
by petehindle
June 6, 2010 in Blog, News Roundup
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Several news sites are reporting that Google is no longer offering Windows as an operating system choice to it’s new employees, and encouraging existing employees to migrate to a different OS. This shouldn’t be a surprise.
Firstly, Google is releasing it’s own operating system later this year, the Linux-based Google Chrome. Secondly, the languages that are most useful to Google Engineers are not the languages that are the easiest to develop with inside Windows.
by petehindle
June 3, 2010 in Blog, News Roundup
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International Quit Facebook Day came and went, without making a dent into the user-base of the fantastically successful social networking site.
The brainchild of two Toronto-based developers, Joseph Dee and Matthew Milan, the idea behind Quit Facebook Day was to send a message about privacy and control to the often controversial Facebook, following it’s recent privacy hoo-haa.
by Ardrich
June 1, 2010 in Blog, News Roundup
New Media Monthly was represented at last week’s Thinking Digital conference by its director Rich Myers, who’s also the managing director of a local digital agency Industrial Strength.
Attending his third Thinking Digital conference, Rich was promised to get to hear talks from “some of the most thought-provoking, influential and inspirational figures you’ll ever meet”. Too much to live up to? Not in all the cases.
Here’s what Rich said about the speakers he had the chance to see:
by petehindle
May 19, 2010 in Blog, News Roundup
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The New York Times made a feature of Facebook’s privacy policy in an extensive review of how, when, and where you can make your private stuff private on the world’s largest social network. It turns out that Facebook’s privacy policy is now so complicated that it’s longer than the Constitution of the United States. Take a look at the infographic (which doesn’t quite explain how to hide those pictures of last weekend from your mum) here.
by petehindle
May 17, 2010 in Blog, News Roundup
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If computers were cars, Apple’s iPad would be something very fancy, with ridiculous seats and a giant spoiler on the back.
There’s no denying that the iPad is a good-looking piece of kit, and it’s futuristic style of “all-screen, no keyboard” is going to define what computing will be in the future. Amazon’s Kindle device looks similar, but is more focused around reading (and buying) any book, anywhere. These two devices are a glimpse of what computers are going to look like from now on: small, flat, and pocketable.
