I quite like the Facebook timeline. It's got its uses for both people and business pages. However some of the options on it strike me as a little odd - especially if you're filling in your "past life" ie. pre-Facebook activity. Do people actually share pre-Facebook relationship information? I'm not sure I'd be overly comfortable with doing that. I am "friends" on … [Read more...] about Playing With Facebook Timeline Options
Gun Death Figures
I shared an image via Facebook last night, as it caught my attention and disturbed me. Sharing the image is an action that probably means a lot more than you'd immediately think and this was reflected by the level of feedback that I got on Facebook from different people. Here's the image, which is from the Brady Campaign site, which has some pretty damning statistics on gun … [Read more...] about Gun Death Figures
Annoying Ads
Every time I browse Facebook I'm pursued by this ads from Sean Gallagher Talk about annoying! … [Read more...] about Annoying Ads
Home Network Storage Problem Solved (Hopefully!)
Over the weekend I discovered what was eating up most of my hard drive space and a few people made some suggestions via the comments here and also on Facebook. I didn't realise that a lot of network storage devices supported iTunes (and similar), so I hadn't done much research into my options. Based on what people were saying I went off and found that Iomega had several … [Read more...] about Home Network Storage Problem Solved (Hopefully!)
Visualising Social Via Intel
Intel have done a few interesting things with social media in the past. One of their tools does an interesting job of sucking in Facebook, Twitter and Youtube and generating a visualisation or infographic of your personal social media activity. Whether it's a reflection of you or not will probably depend on how much you actually share via social media sites Here's … [Read more...] about Visualising Social Via Intel