Daily Archives: 30 April, 2010

Twitter rivals Facebook’s awareness but only 7% use it

Twitter is as well known as its Facebook but trails considerably in terms of usage.

Edison Research found that awareness of Twitter has exploded from 5% of Americans in 2008 to 87% in 2010. By comparison, Facebook’s awareness is at 88%. Read More »

LOLCats inspires LOLCleggz: I can haz ur vote?

LOL Clegg iz awesum

“Fank you, fank you!” Nick Clegg might say. If he was a feline. In the midst of all the negativity and mud flinging in the political press, there’s a small community of people satirising the general election with a basic Photoshop skills and deliberately misspelled captions (maybe that should be ‘capshunzz?’). Read More »

Why Twitter doesn’t matter at all (in this election)

At the beginning of the campaign we weren’t really sure, but by last night it was blindly clear.

Twitter, and social media generally, in this election campaign do not matter – not in the wider scheme of things at least. Read More »

iPad developers innovate with iPhone controlled games

Brilliant! You find something that adds to iPad’s cool credentials and there isn’t a news release to be found, just this teaser clip to make you yearn for an iPad.

It looks like app developers are really starting to ramp up what they can do with the iPad. A lot of apps I’ve played with allow little room for the iPad’s tilt sensors, apart from basic screen rotation, but it’s starting to trickle through as game developers have a go. Read More »