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[28 Jun 2010 | No Comment | 214 views]
Daily Mail quotes ceoSteveJobs, parody Twitter account by mistake

Time-to-market is key in the race to “break the news”, but news agencies oftentimes seem to falter with information that is seemingly handed to them, and not verified. Some, as with this case, have their new media staff on standby to write up and post news quickly, even on weekends!
Today, the Daily Mail, UK’s 2nd biggest-selling newspaper made a boo boo by quoting a parody Twitter account, thinking it was the REAL Steve Jobs. Many of us who spend copious amounts of time on Twitter are familiar with the popular …

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[25 Jun 2010 | One Comment | 36 views]
Google Docs improves sharing functionality

I’m a huge proponent of Google Docs. It has radically changed collaboration, not just in the workplace, but also in every facet of life, if used properly. Here’s a few things I do with Google Docs.

Timesheets of staff at our digital agency, Integricity
IT maintenance record logs between our technology boys and the clients
Finance reporting for certain projects involving various stakeholders
Self-generation of monthly statements for certain client services
Holiday itinerary planning between friends

It’s truly revolutionized the way we can be efficient now. Though there is still quite a fair bit that I desire …

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[14 Jun 2010 | One Comment | 106 views]
World Cup 2010: The return of the fail whale

If you’ve been on Twitter over the last 3 days, you would surely have encountered the dreaded fail whale (if you don’t know what this is, you’re absolutely not Twitdicted… yet!). Here’s what a fail whale is, and it generally rears its head when Twitter is overcapacity, or not performing as it should.

We’ve just found out via Twitter engineer (@jeanpaul) that the cause of these outages is primarily due to internal sub-networks being over-capacity. He outlines 3 problems and 3 solutions for them. (Read the source article here)
3 PROBLEMS
1. Two …

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[29 Apr 2010 | No Comment | 152 views]
Best of the best: Facebook fan pages

Facebook fan pages can be really creative these days. You could either install applications that have been created already, design your own tab using FBML (which is a variant of HTML – it’s not too difficult) or program your own application (which is the most challenging of the lot).
To show you what some sites have done for their fan pages, here’s a cool website called Facebook Showcase that highlights what’s cool out there. You can even submit your fan page if you think you’re cool enough.