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Facebook free

I opened my Facebook account in 2007. At the time, I was deemed a bit of a late-comer to the system and for a long time I resisted. I had Twitter for friends far away, I saw my local friends every few days back then. I think I even still

Sam Hardacre Jun 10, 2019 • 2 min read

Web

Merging lives

Activity in social media has grown exponentially over the last ten years. It's gone from a way to simply keep in touch with friends to sharing scores of information with the world. The things we watch, read, the places we visit and the things we see in our day-to-day lives

Sam Hardacre Aug 9, 2012 • 1 min read

Community

Out of context

I read a news item on the BBC this morning about an MP who used Twitter to voice an opinion on a recent court case. It resulted in a backlash but the offending tweet was said to have been taken out of context. Everyone has the right to voice their

Sam Hardacre Jan 1, 2012 • 1 min read

Photography

McD, WTF?

Sometimes I get rather confused by things I see on the web. Some I can fathom out and apply some sort of explanation, others I struggle to understand at all. This photo has led to one such time where I'm confused by what people enjoy on the web. The photo

Sam Hardacre Dec 18, 2011 • 1 min read

Web

A change of location

I first started using Gowalla about 18 months ago. I only used it for a few check-ins but I was addicted by the end of the first day. I loved the idea of keeping a record of the places I went to and enjoyed knowing where friends were at any

Sam Hardacre Dec 5, 2011 • 2 min read

Web

Simply delicious

I'm a relatively new user of Delicious, despite signing up some time ago, I only actually started to use it regularly in October last year. Since then I've become addicted to it. It's been almost a year since I bookmarked anything on a local machine and it's proven useful on

Sam Hardacre Jul 6, 2010 • 2 min read

Technology

The future is geo-based

Yesterday, photo-sharing website, Flickr, published an article detailing a number of improvements they've made to the user interface. Among them a more prominent Map feature, allowing users to add geo-location data to their photos which harks back to my thoughts on the maps feature in the new iPhone iOS4. Sharing

Sam Hardacre Jun 24, 2010 • 1 min read

Social Media

User-generated advertising

ecently I've become a regular user of Gowalla, a location based social networking app which allows you to tell friends where you are via Twitter and Facebook. Using the iPhone GPS, it finds your location and provides you with all the information it has on businesses and attractions (called ÒspotsÓ)

Sam Hardacre May 6, 2010 • 1 min read