Posted on 10 November 2011. Tags: beard, moustache, Movember
As winter approaches many men around us are taking part in Movember. For those of you not fully aware of Movember, it started in Australia in 2003. Essentially men begin the month of November clean shaven with the intention of growing a big fat moustache for the rest of the month. The growing of a [...]
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Posted in Trends
Posted on 19 October 2011.
Source Since its launch (to much speculation) in 2010, the Apple iPad has become the latest ‘must have’ gadget. Based on the very same operating system that powers the iPhone and iPod touch devices, the iPad is a touch-screen tablet computer that lets users do all sorts of things – from writing articles to doing [...]
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Posted in Advertising News, Social Media Business, Tech, Trends
Posted on 10 August 2011.
It seems that celebrities are in fact just like you and I. They too can make big mistakes just like us and have been known to end up in big trouble. But I didn’t realise so many of them had actually committed as horrendous a crime as killing someone. Not in a kind of planned [...]
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Posted in Trends, World of weird
Posted on 28 July 2011. Tags: gaming
‘I’m dying for a game!’ Could this be you wanting a fix of Call of Duty or World of Warcraft? Do you know someone who’s addicted to gaming? It could even be a close friend of yours if you know what I mean? Reported cases in China and South Korea of gamers who have apparently [...]
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Posted in Social Media Business, Trends
Posted on 21 July 2011.
With Google+ fast becomes the newest online craze, now hosting nearly 20 million users with 2.2 million of those joining in a mere 32 hours, it seems imperative that you not only join, but you quickly learn how to use the thing too. With Circles, Sparks, Hangouts and the + symbol everywhere you look, it [...]
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Posted in Advertising News, Social Media Business, Social Opinion, Tech, Trends, What is Social Media?
Posted on 12 July 2011.
Are you one of those workers who take advantage of your employer by checking out Facebook during office hours? Plenty do. And it’s not just your employer who is losing out on your reduced productivity. You could have more to lose. Hardly a week goes by without a media story focusing on a ‘Facebook Firing’. [...]
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Posted in Advertising News, Social Media Business, Tech, Trends
Posted on 07 July 2011.
It’s hard to think of what life was like before Facebook or Angry Birds. And the truth is, no one really remembers. Apparently, at one time Apps didn’t even exist and we simply spoke to each other and wrote letters and such. Now though, Apps have become the cornerstone of our daily lives, with the [...]
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Posted in Advertising News, Social Media Business, Tech, Trends
Posted on 07 July 2011.
As the economy collapsed so did peoples budgets. People spent less on holidays, meals out and entertainment like the cinema. To deal with the problem of spare time and no cash not everyone started having sex or mindlessly watching the TV as the Daily Mail would have you think. Some got into crafts. Everything from [...]
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Posted in Advertising News, Social Media Business, Trends
Posted on 07 July 2011.
An Internet hacker group, known as the “5CR1PT K1DD3S” or The Script Kiddies, have successfully hacked into the Fox New Politics (@foxnewspolitics) Twitter account and claimed the assassination of Barack Obama. Source @FoxNewsPolitics Tweets about Obamas Assassination The Twitter account, which had over 32,000 followers, seemed to have been hacked late on the 3rd July, [...]
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Posted in Advertising News, Social Media Business, Trends
Posted on 27 June 2011.
Maths is boring right? righhtt? WRONG! (well in this circumstance anyway). We’re talking about infographics, the graphic manipulation of information making it easier to understand, more memorable and a heck of a lot more interesting (like a chart but better). Infographics is a relatively new term brought about my sophisticated chart lovers. The infographic goes a step [...]
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