If you’ve not yet checked out the latest beta of the Facebook app for Windows Phone then you might want to look now. In the latest update, the Facebook Beta app sees almost instant notifications and private messaging which is a welcome change from the rather slow, sporadic or simply broken notifications functionality in prior …
Category: Social Networking
Sep 08 2013
Using Twitter to Keep Tabs on Live Election Results
This is something you would need to keep until next election but the ABC in Australia ran Twitter bots allowing people to query and obtain live results for each seat with a direct link to more detailed results on the ABC website. I thought this was pretty cool even though I am at home with …
Apr 28 2013
Twitter for Mac OS X Finally Receives an Update
Another quick update. If you’ve been using Twitter for Mac OS X you may have been wondering where the updates have been for the official client. In particular, the lack of Retina display support may have been discouraging people from using the official client. Anyway, the latest version of the official Twitter client is now …
Feb 03 2013
Rdio – An Alternative to Spotify in Windows Phone 8
For the Windows Phone 8 faithful there have been some key applications missing that might help tip the scales in its favour. Big names such as Instagram are still noticeably absent despite a pledge late last year that an app would arrive. Spotify is very much in the same boat and its tardiness might be …
Jan 09 2013
It’s MySpace, Jim But Not As We Know It
If you hadn’t realised, MySpace is still alive and, well umm, let’s just say it’s still alive. Anyway, a few days ago I got something that ended up in my junk mail folder appearing to be from MySpace. So I had a look. The mail looks legitimate enough and it contained an invitation to try …
Nov 19 2012
Skype Integrates Windows Live Messenger at a Cost
It’s been known for a little while that Microsoft is planning to lay Windows Live Messenger to rest in favour of Skype. Microsoft has already made the first step by allowing Skype to merge account information with Messenger and also Facebook (which has been available for a while now). Of course, there may be early …
Aug 02 2012
WP Super Cache and RSS
If you run your own blog and traffic starts to pick up a little bit then you may have been recommended to use something called WP Super Cache. I thought I might try it out to see if there was going to be much benefit for this blog given the increase in traffic it has …
Jul 23 2012
Your Content and Social Media at the Right Place and the Right Time
Here’s something just from my own observations in posting this blog and blasting it out to Facebook and Twitter. It’s all well and good to create content and then share it on the various social networks of the day but it’s not much point if you post it at a time when your target audience …
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