links for 2010-03-04
5 March 2010
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A promising and potentially useful iPhone application that would have allowed users to browse, view and even download content from the BBC was blocked by the corporation.
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Watch this EveryDay Looper video, and tell me that you don’t want it
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On Monday, the BBC’s Richard Bacon invited a group of experts to talk about technology and British politics. The question he posed was simple: “Will this be the Twitter election?” Radio 5 Live’s bemused guests, including Iain Dale, the top Conservative blogger, grappled with the seemingly ridiculous notion that, come polling day, over-caffeinated Twitter enthusiasts could tip the balance between prime minister Gordon Brown and his Tory challenger David Cameron.
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Consumer-advocate blog Consumerist is always looking to help you keep tabs on Big Brother and any of your personal information He's tracking. Toward that end, their comprehensive list of online background-checking tools is worth a look.
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RootMusic’s debut product is called BandPage, and it makes MySpace-like band page features possible inside a Facebook fan page.
At present, Facebook fan pages are laid out in such a way that you can’t share your music with your fans while letting them continue to browse for information. You can deploy a music player tab, but as soon as your fans click on the Photos tab to see pictures of your band, the music stops.
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6Music has got friends in the media fighting its corner, but where are the defenders of the Asian Network?
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The Telegraph reports that the average Briton sees 10 extra days of work added to their year as a result of always-on email through devices like the Blackberry.
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Free UK daily Metro had 3,597,000 daily readers on average in 2009, and surpasses the Daily Mirror (3,425,000 readers). In 2008 the Mirror had 3,600,000 readers against 3,318 for Metro. The Mirror has been losing readers in the last four years; Metro is increasing its readership since launch.
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The Israeli military cancelled a planned raid on a Palestinian village after one of its soldiers posted details of the operation on Facebook.
The unnamed soldier revealed the time and place of the raid and the name of his unit on the social networking site. -
Dan York gets a comment on his blog which is clearly copies & pasted. FAIL!
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Diageo is to launch its first paid-for advertising activity on Facebook to boost social media activity around the Baileys brand.
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