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IIA NetVisionary Public Voting Now Open

As mentioned yesterday, the shortlist of nominees for this year’s IIA NetVisionary Awards is now available. As of earlier this morning the public voting is now open – and it’s only open for 3 days! You can cast your vote for a number of categories: “You Did Good” – Best Use of the Internet for […]

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Exploring Twitter’s Native Analytics

When Twitter started “wrapping” all hyperlinks using the t.co URL shortener they emphasised that the service would help the platform’s security. But, as they admitted, it was also going to give them access to metrics on how users’ interact with tweets. You can now access a lot of this data for your account via Twitter […]

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Designer Strikes Back At NSA Presentation Style

While most of the media coverage and social media conversations around the NSA and Prism have focussed on the security and privacy implications, some people obviously thought that the NSA could have done a  better job of the slides. So one industrious designer went off and re-did them: Dear NSA, let me take care of […]

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Akamai Visualise Internet Traffic

Akamai carries up to 30% of the web’s traffic so when they start talking about data they’re not only dealing in big numbers, but also significant percentages of the internet’s users. They’ve made public a lot of their data and they’ve done so in a pretty visual and engaging fashion. For example, here’s broadband penetration […]

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How Secure Is Your Twitter Account?

Yesterday AP’s Twitter account hack led to US stock markets losing billions of dollars before recovering. So how secure is your Twitter password? How secure are your other social media accounts? What apps have access to them? Do you know? Do you recognise all of them? And for fun you can try out this “tool” […]

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Twitter Face Palm Moments

Big brands use Twitter and other social media outlets to engage and promote their products and services. While some might do a better job than others some of the bigger brands have had “face palm” moments over the last year or so. Some very big brands have had major issues on Twitter and this graphic […]

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