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Facebook's new look

Facebook have just launched a public preview of there new site layout, it's available for anyone to view at www.new.facebook.com, at the moment you can only view your profile page, any attempt to view...

Google Health

Google launched there long awaited Google Health product a couple of days ago and I have been filling in information to see what it's all about. Late last year Microsoft launched there rival product...

My first experiences of FriendFeed

I have had an account on FriendFeed for a couple of weeks now but haven't used it other than linking it to the various accounts I have around the web, that was until a couple of days ago. I decided to...

Digsby - Facebook Chat problems?

I was using Digsby to chat to a friend on Facebook this evening and at the same time as using the desktop client the web based chat application on Facebook's site was open as well, this was when I not...

Currys.digital store closures and DSG's future

Today the BBC have a news article on there site talking about the closure of 77 of the Currys.digital stores as there leases run out over the next 5 years. The Currys.digital stores used to be Dixon's...

Google I/O

Yesterday I came across an event Google are holding called Google I/O, this is a 2 day event for developers in San Francisco. It covers several topics including Googles OpenSocial, Maps and Mobile ser...

Social Networks and Desktop Clients

There seem to be a huge number of social networks around today, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Yahoo! Mash, Orkut, Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr, Flickr, just the few I could remember while writing this. There ar...

OpenID - Good or Bad?

OpenID is an interesting idea, one that has the potential to solve one of the most annoying issues of today's websites, multiple accounts. I like to try out lots of the new websites and services that...

Environment Monitoring

I have a number of computers which run various things such as email, websites (including this one), databases and a telephone system, these computers are kept in a secure room with very poor ventilati...

Viralcom - The truth behind YouTube Videos!

A couple of weeks ago I came across a trailer for an up and coming show called Viralcom (embedded below). The series follows Viralcom and takes you behind the scenes to see how all the classic YouTube...