This week’s podcast contains offensive language. It’s not safe for work and not suitable for kids (or people of quality and breeding – you know who you are). In our defence … actually – we don’t have a defence. We weren’t even drinking – but speaking of drink, there’s an idea. Being a Kerryman, I […]
Archive | August, 2012
Does it really matter that people don’t know what “the cloud” is?
The recently published U.S. survey (commissioned by Citrix) about the public’s knowledge of Cloud Computing makes for interesting reading. “Most respondents believe the cloud is related to weather, while some referred to pillows, drugs and toilet paper.” This makes for great headlines of course, but it’s the “first to mind” answer people gave when asked […]
Infographic – Does Facebook Really Work?
The guys over at Get Satisfaction have posted an interesting infographic on some of the shortcomings of Facebook for user engagement
Lord of the Rings from the Orcs point of view a lego parody
Anyone who knows me will probably know I’m a bit obsessed with Lego. I even end up using photos I’ve taken of Lego men on the Blacknight Blog from time to time . So seeing this Lego men Lord of the Rings Parody this morning really makes me laugh Enjoy
Obama On Reddit – WOW!
President Barack Obama, the President of the United States, is currently taking questions over on Reddit. You’ll have to excuse me if I don’t react to this with a simple “wow”. There. I’ve reacted. TheNextWeb has the lowdown on what he’s doing. For a politician to go onto a site like Reddit is one thing […]
Infographic: Social Media Marketing
This is a rather “busy” infographic from Luma Partners that show the social media marketing landscape. Via
Video: Existential Star Wars
Read the subtitles – if you listen to the French dialogue you will get very confused .. ok, the subtitles are confusing too 🙂 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-uQWNd540I[/youtube]
If you’ve got $18,000 burning a hole in your pocket…
Oh my. This watch ticks all my geeky boxes. It’s a limited edition PAC-MAN watch which will go on sale in a couple of days time in Paris. RJ-Romain Jerome teamed up with NAMCO to produce a truly stunning piece of wristwear. Just have a read of the features: Having inherited the highly distinctive case […]
An Internet Minute
Intel released this infographic a while back about everything that happens every minute on the internet with some projections of what things will look like in a couple of years time. The statistics are staggering, especially if you’ve been around long enough to remember how primitive the entire thing was 20 years ago (or longer […]
Facebook and CNN Launch Elections Insights
We mentioned Amazon’s election barometer recently. Facebook have teamed up with CNN to launch “Election Insights“. Using Facebook’s “insights” the site displays the volume of activity on the social network related to the various US presidential hopefuls Full announcement here.