Tag Archives: techno

What’s the difference between user generated content and user generated rubbish? Comments please…

Posted on January 7, 2009 by bob hitching

Some user generated content (UGC) is genuine, honest, credible, reputable, trustworthy, valuable, quality information. But some is rubbish (let’s call that UGR), including deliberately misleading propaganda, biased blog comments, bogus product reviews, spam, veiled advertising, and bad poetry (or is … Continue reading →

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Social data portability: who benefits?

Posted on December 22, 2008 by bob hitching

In 2006, a certain old-media tycoon reportedly asked Mark Zuckerberg, the 20-something founder of Facebook, “how can I build a social network like Facebook?” Zuckerberg replied “You can’t!” What Zuckerberg meant was that Facebook hadn’t set out to ‘build’ a … Continue reading →

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SearchWiki + OpenSocial = mainstream social search?

Posted on November 21, 2008 by bob hitching

Google today launched a rather massive change to its core search product. SearchWiki adds some innocuous buttons to your search results page, enabling Digg -style voting and Friendfeed -style commenting on each result. I think this feature might prove valuable … Continue reading →

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Speaking in HTTP/1.1

Posted on November 19, 2008 by bob hitching

I’m a big fan of Hypertext Transfer Protocol. I am particularly fond of HTTP status codes and the meanings they convey with such concise and precise brevity. I just don’t GET why they are not used more often in natural … Continue reading →

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Anathem

Posted on October 19, 2008 by bob hitching

I’ve just finished Neal Stephenson’s latest epic novel “Anathem”. It might be described as a philosophical techno-adventure comedy with aliens. Highly recommended. Here’s the widget of the book of Stephenson’s exceptional mind… It’s fascinating to trace one of the founding … Continue reading →

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Xumii @ DEMOfall

Posted on August 28, 2008 by bob hitching

We’re going to DEMOfall ’08, how exciting! Stand 61.

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World of Spectrum

Posted on August 19, 2008 by bob hitching

Recently I was contacted by Gerard Sweeney over at World of Spectrum, the consummate digital museum of all things related to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Gerard was asking if the details on the WoS database about MegaFruit were accurate, including … Continue reading →

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so how did I get here?

Posted on August 12, 2008 by bob hitching

Here’s a video interview recorded a few months ago with Sally and Steve from LaVolta, and brought to you by Viocorp. If I look younger, it’s because it was pre-Xumii! http://play.viostream.com/?play=7EF806B6-EDE1-441D-967B-0D8D20550D22

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iphone.hitching.net and m.hitching.net launch

Posted on July 16, 2008 by bob hitching

Thanks to the wonderful MoFuse I have been able to launch two mobile websites while sitting in bed tonight; iphone.hitching.net if you are one of the 1,000,000 people who bought a shiny new iPhone 3G over the weekend, and m.hitching.net … Continue reading →

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Xumii Public Beta

Posted on June 27, 2008 by bob hitching

Today Xumii moved out of stealth mode and into public beta, with integration to Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Google Chat, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM and Flickr on over 100 different devices.

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Live video streaming from your mobile phone

Posted on June 7, 2008 by bob hitching

qik is live video streaming from your mobile phone; perhaps the next killer mobile app? Certainly the data charges would be near fatal in Australia, at 3Mb per minute for a 320 x 240 x 15 fps stream. Here’s looking … Continue reading →

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Xumii emerges from Under the Radar

Posted on June 3, 2008 by bob hitching

Xumii is unveiled today at the Under the Radar conference in Mountain View. “Take all your contacts from your social networks with you — on your phone!” Here’s Jennifer on stage:

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Xumii private beta launch

Posted on May 7, 2008 by bob hitching

Today we launched Xumii in private beta. Xumii is an open mobile social messaging platform. More soon..!

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3G iPhone mod: upgrade your iPhone to 3G speed

Posted on April 8, 2008 by bob hitching

When Applie released its iPhone last year as a 2.5G EDGE device, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one wondering why it wasn’t 3G. I thought it might have been a form factor issue. I imagined the product meeting where … Continue reading →

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Can I break the internet with an infinite social feedback loop?

Posted on February 28, 2008 by bob hitching

Thought for the day… if my Facebook status is updated by my Twitter feed, or Jaiku, and gets reported in my Plaxo Pulse, which is spotted by my FriendFeed, which sends an update to Twitter, which updates my Facebook status … Continue reading →

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