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Hear ye developers! Supercharge LBS with Rummble API

October 24th, 2009 · View Comments · development, location, mobile, social

Sadly I couldn’t make it to BarCamp London 7 this weekend, but thought it would still serve as a decent enough occasion to share some thoughts about the Rummble API via the interwebs. The API officially launched last month at Over the Air, however I was the first person to take it for a spin [...]

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Bienvenidos FOWA Miami

February 19th, 2009 · View Comments · social

I don’t know a great deal about Yoga, but suspect the position in which I’m writing this post on board the BA207 to Miami would be called “praying mantis”. After a few days of remote working beside a pool (why not?), and Sunday hanging out at BarCamp Miami, my final destination will be Future of [...]

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Twitter gets hacked (twice!). What’s next?

January 6th, 2009 · View Comments · social

Earlier today @foxnews tweeted the shock breaking news that Bill O’Reilly is gay. Shortly afterwards offensive and obscure messages were posted on 33 high profile accounts, including Facebook, Britney Spears, and President-in-waiting Obama. Twitter had been hacked. This comes at the same time as a phishing scare in which thousands of people complained about receiving [...]

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Discovery is…

December 31st, 2008 · View Comments · social

I found this presentation embedded on the Discover.io homepage. They are the people behind Mr Tweet, a service which recommends people to follow based upon your extended network. The points raised are already guiding recent developments at Total Hotspots, and should apply to all online communities. Enjoy! View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: [...]

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How do you tweet?

October 29th, 2008 · View Comments · social

For most readers, Twitter – the popular micro-blogging, short-messaging, fail-whaling, runaway train – needs no introduction. Twitterer Luke Razzell, aka @weakerluke, is a freelance consultant, UX architect and inventor I met a couple of years ago in Caffe Nero on Kensington High Street – I believe Luke was busy crafting a blog post about digital [...]

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