The pleasures of Astronomy from childhood to adulthood
April 11, 2009 – 00:02 | One Comment

Amateur Astronomy is a hobby I’ve been engaged with since my early teens. I recall my first encounter with Astronomy after my father bought me a cheap rickety telescope that wobbled and never really focused …

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The use of Twitter in customer services
June 15, 2009 – 09:03 | No Comment
The use of Twitter in customer services

I’m a big fan of twitter and I’ve written about my use of it before. Increasingly, I am seeing businesses use twitter more and more to interact with their customers. A point in case was …

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Tweetie, the prettiest Mac-native Twitter application in town
April 21, 2009 – 16:44 | No Comment
Tweetie, the prettiest Mac-native Twitter application in town

Development in the world of Twitter is running at breakneck speed and today I’m looking at yet another Twitter client, aptly named Tweetie, which just got released to the world on Monday 20th April, 2009. …

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lnk.by context
April 12, 2009 – 21:09 | One Comment
lnk.by context

For all those social networking junkies out there who spend hours on twitter, facebook and other online communities and instant messaging platforms, the notion of shortening a long URL is common place. For the uninitiated, …

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A new Twitter client for your Mac called Nambu
April 8, 2009 – 15:55 | One Comment
A new Twitter client for your Mac called Nambu

Nambu is the name of new Twitter client recently released in beta form to the public that’s specifically for the Mac user community. It only runs on Mac OS-X and doesn’t yet have a Windows version. It’s also the first Mac based Twitter client I’ve used that’s not Adobe AIR or web based. It’s a native Mac OS-X application and as such looks very familiar and bears a striking resemblance to the Mac finder window. Nambu Touch for the iPhone also exists, although it too is in beta.

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Why do you use Twitter?
April 5, 2009 – 18:04 | One Comment
Why do you use Twitter?

The question of this article is, “Why do you use Twitter?”. It’s interesting to hear the answers from various quarters. Some people laugh at the mere notion of Twitter, some simply don’t get it, others use it prolifically and can’t stay off it whilst yet more have started to use Twitter as a tool for business.

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