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Is Twitter Killing Hollywood Movies? I Say No
Over the summer we’ve seen a bunch of presumed blockbusters falter after their opening weekends. Brüno was no success (if you’ve seen Borat, you’ve seen Brüno), Duplicity with Julia Roberts cost $60 million to make, but made only $40 million in the US. Land of the Lost, Will Ferrell’s $100 million adventure-comedy, made $49 million [...]
Continue reading...Evernote Update – Now With Even More Clippers
25. March 2009
One of my favourite applications, Evernote, released another update today. Besides fixing some minor issues, it features great news for especially Mac-users. The Safari plugin, lets you clip entire web pages to Evernote or a PDF. Evernote now also supports Growl notifications (known from Adium and Gmail Notifier).
FireFox Mac-users will enjoy the updated clipper. The [...]
US Television From 1988 – Have A Betamaxmas
17. December 2008
Do you miss Pee Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special? Or perhaps The Smurf’s Christmas Special? Or Alf’s? How about the Cabbage Patch Kids commercials?
Fear not. You can see all the christmas specials from 1988 in the comfort of your own basement or you can get close to.
A BeTaMaXMaS does exactly that. You have three channels to [...]
Google Friend Connect Now On The Beta News
15. December 2008
I was “lucky” enough to get a beta invite to Google Friend Connect and like any good blogger I never turn Google down. Nobody wants to get in bad standing with Google.
So now I’ve installed it so please join this site, which is now in the same league as The Inquistr, Louis Gray, Mashable, WinExtra [...]
YouTube – What Is That Ugly Search Bar Doing In The Videos?
4. December 2008
YouTube has silently just “updated” the embedded videos with a very ugly search bar. It’s there until you click play and will reappear for a few seconds every your cursor is near the top of the video.
If you pause a video it will also reappear.
I know I know, this will help YouTube (Google) get even [...]
Google Teams Up With LIFE To Host Millions Of Photos
19. November 2008
Google has teamed up with LIFE Magazine to showcase millions of LIFE’s acrhived photos. There are photos from every decade from 1860 to 1970.
It’s a very impressive archive with many classic and some unpublished photos. They photos are also categorised, so if you are looking for pictures of the 1930s oil boom, Abraham Lincoln or [...]
Nimbuzz And StudiVZ – Finally A Proactive European Partnership
11. November 2008
Nimbuzz has just released this:
NIMBUZZ TO PROVIDE SOCIAL NETWORKS WITH REAL TIME WEB AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION
Announces first commercial partnership with StudiVZ
11th November 2008, Rotterdam – Nimbuzz (www.nimbuzz.com), the most comprehensive mobile VoIP, presence and IM provider today announces its first key revenue sharing partnership with a social network, formalising its push to provide online communities [...]
Twittermania 8 New Twitter Services
24. June 2008
The twittermania continues. “Every time a bell rings, a new twitter service gets it’s wings” – You may use this quote freely.
It’s almost impossible to keep track of all the new twitter services that are constantly launched. I’ve created a list of the most recent services.
The list goes from Tweetmarks and spamplets to Hiimok and [...]
Twitter Alternatives – Plurk Or Pownce
6. June 2008
It’s no surprise that twitter can be a bit unstable from time to time. Twitter is probably the only service I know that’s almost more down than it’s up, and still have a loyal fan base and increase it’s number of users.
But what are the alternatives?
There are a lot of similar micro-blogging services out there, [...]
A Day In The Life Of Twitter
30. May 2008
This is only my second video, so please be gentle.
Using summize.com I’ve gathered some of the tweets from desperate, disappointed or even angry twitterers after twitter.com’s nasty downtime last Wednesday.
Which program and on which hardware I made the video is not important, at least not now, but it’s a part of my quest for the [...]
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