Social Media

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

Sam Hardacre

Sam Hardacre 10 Jun 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

Sam Hardacre

Sam Hardacre 9 Aug 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

Sam Hardacre

Sam Hardacre 1 Jan 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

Sam Hardacre

Sam Hardacre 18 Dec 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

Sam Hardacre

Sam Hardacre 5 Dec 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

Sam Hardacre

Sam Hardacre 6 Jul 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

Sam Hardacre

Sam Hardacre 24 Jun 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

Sam Hardacre

Sam Hardacre 6 May 2010 • 1 min read