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Facebook Holiday Matchmaker

It feels like just about everyone has Facebook, a lot of your information goes into Facebook (if you have Facebook of course). Halifax’s new Facebook application attempts to accumulate that data to find out where in the world you should visit. The Halifax Holiday Matchmaker looks through your profile and suggests a location based on [...]

Rollercoaster Extreme

After previous success with Waterslide Extreme, Barclaycard have released a brand new game for the iPhone called Rollercoaster Extreme. Waterslide Extreme was downloaded over 12 million times and …

$30 of iStockPhoto to give away

We’re giving away $30 worth of credits (20) for use at iStockPhoto. iStockPhoto is one of the leading providers of user uploaded stock images, illustrations, videos and audio. What does 20 credits get …

Google Docs Find and Replace!

Google today announced that ‘Find and Replace’ has been implemented within Google Docs. Vivian Leung posted the update to the Google Docs blog. Which as the first commenter pointed out, “just highlights …

Heaton bi-annual Microsoft rant

Today Matt Heaton, President of BlueHost and HostMonster posted his bi-annual Microsoft rant. He picked up on some particularly fragile Microsoft comments. Particularly this comment from IE General Manager Dean …

In Stephen Fry we trust… Twitter

The mention of Twitter during the ‘Friday Night with Jonathan Ross” show brought with it another round of ‘mainstream tipping point’ discussions specifically related to Twitter in the UK. Host and comedian Jonathan Ross who returned to the BBC, having been suspended for 3 months discussed Twitter with guest comedian Stephen Fry, both of whom [...]

Street View hitting home this Spring

That’s if ‘home’ for you is the UK. British newspaper, The Independent, has speculated that Google will be introducing Street View to the UK in Spring 2009. Street View is a Google Maps feature that allows you to view the roads at eye-level (if you’re 8ft tall) …

Google Books… now with magazines

Yesterday Google announced the introduction of old magazines within the Google Books service. Google has been digitizing books for years, this addition is another step in Google’s vision of creating an online archive of the offline world (while taking over the world). Google Engineer Dave Foulser posted the update to the Google Blog, stating, “Over [...]

Google cleans up Google Reader

Google updated Google Reader a few minutes ago. Google Reader is a web-based RSS reader. 5 days ago we posted that it might not be a bad idea to follow Gmail’s lead and add optional themes to Google …

Google Reader themes… makes sense

Annie Chen a Gmail engineer announced the introduction of themes within Gmail almost two weeks ago. Having tested a lot of these themes, it wouldn’t be controversial to say that many of them …