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Driving seat: flavors.me

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flavors.me is a website that allows you to aggregate your social media personas in one place without having to build your own […]

Snow Leopard: experiences and thoughts

Some thoughts and observations on Snow Leopard following my installation of the retail version:

Installation - Installation took about two hours to install on my MacBook Pro, whether its coincidence or not I don’t know but the fluorescent tube that lights the back of the laptop LCD went on the blink at the same time. Doing […]

Bing: how the FT and other media missed the real story

I have been playing with Bing for a little while now, so here’s my thoughts. The first thing that struck me about Bing is that most media commentators don’t get it. A classic example of what I mean is The search continues by Paul Taylor of the Financial Times (June 4, 2008). In his article […]

The FAIL HAL

I have tried WolframAlpha a few times today, this evening I received the following error message from the site.

I wonder if the reference to the HAL9000 machine featured in 2001 will be as accessible for the audience as the FAIL whale has been? The geek in me loves it.

Driving seat: Nambu and Filemaker Bento

With the move in job, I was interested in getting a multi-Twitter account desktop client for personal and work account use. Multiple accounts open in Firefox doesn’t really cut it.

Nambu has an intuitive interface and makes Twitter easy to manage without taking up a whole lot of digital real-estate on your screen. In an early […]

Driving seat: Sonim XP3

Back in February 2008 I reviewed the Sonim XP1, which restarted up the toughphone segment when it was launched around about the same time as the Samsung Solid. You can read the earlier review of the phone here. Just in time for Christmas, Sonim have put out review copies of the XP3 which is an […]

Goodrec: iPhone drives good web design

My friend Jenny reached out to me the other week. Like so many of us, she’d finally left Yahoo! and found a new home at Goodrec, a SFO start-up that provides recommendations (at which point I can hear you sign and think to yourself: why should I care, there’s plenty of them like Yelp, Qype, […]

Driving Seat: Ping.fm

As a social media expert, of I use the term expert loosely, given the constant change in the field, perhaps adventurer would be better here? I have profiles on lots of social media properties with foolish names like Twitter, Plurk, Flickr and Poo (ok I made the last one up as I was feeling juvenile). […]

Driving seat: Living with The Flip

A while ago I shared the unboxing pictures of The Flip camcorder that I got sent by Weber Shandwick. I’ve had a chance to play with it and here’s my inital thoughts.
The device is pretty robust and has been perfectly happy to float around in the bottom of my messenger bag the past number of […]

Shameless plug: Wahanda

My ex-colleague Salim Mitha moved from Yahoo! Search to setting up Wahanda (click here to check out the site) earlier this year. I was a bit surprised when I first heard about Wahanda, it seemed a long way to go from search engines to a health and beauty experience aggregator, but in reality its more […]

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