Category Archives: Web 2.0 stuff

The EVE Online Wave pack

Or should that be Wave front? We’ve already got a Blog Pack, and a Tweet Fleet. Anyway whatever its called its a kind of rolling conversation on Google’s ‘Replacement for email’ which they have called Wave.

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EVE Blogs – Categorized OPML

Building on Ga’lens stalwart work in compiling an OPML file of the majority of EVE blogs I took it upon myself to categorize them according to a variety of criteria.

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GameScribe Open Beta, and a Contest

As I think I may have mentioned, Gamescribe is a new hosted blogging service built along the lines of Wordpress.com (it even uses the same software) designed specifically with gamers in mind. Read on for more info…

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Let’s Crown Stephen Fry King Of Twitter

I’ve been caught by the twitter bug, as you might have gathered (I’m @mandrill in case you were wondering), and it seems the rest of the world is coming with me (unless they were there already).
@stephenfry, yes that Stephen Fry, has a twitter account and is currently the third most followed twitterer with 120,000 (and [...]

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Spotify – An Introduction and A Contest

I have discovered Spotify.
First things first. This is not an ad, Ihave not been paid to post about Spotify, I don’t work for Spotify, and I have no other reason for posting about it other than I think its a great idea.

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Presenting The Twitter Collaborative Fiction Experiment.

I had a mad idea whilst pluttering around on the intertubes this evening.
Collaborative fiction through the medium of Twitter.
I must be nuts.
Imagine, if you will a story told a whole load of different people, in chunks of 135* characters or less (including spaces). It has the potential to produce a collective outpouring of imagination of [...]

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Google Asking For Trouble in Chrome EULA

Google’s new browser, Chrome (I’m not going to link to it, you’ll see why in a minute) is being hailed as a Firefox beater. Its slim, fast and built to work very well with The Goog’s online services. There is a  rather large fly in this online ointment however. It is better explained by a [...]

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GMDesk, Great Little App

I’ve just stumbled across GMDesk, a great little app which uses Adobe Air to give you access to all your Google Apps (GMail, Reader, Docs, Picasa etc.) through one place on your desctop without having to open up a browser.
Its a great idea and I hope it continues to be developed and refined as there [...]

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A First.

W00t! I just hit the stumble button in my browser and where did it take me but here. I stumbled upon myself for the first time ever! Huzzah!
Thankyou to everyone who’s been sumbling my site

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New NIN Album Released Online

I apologise for the lateness of this news (it won’t be news to people who were paying attention) but this one completely passed me by, too much time spent in WoW methinks.
(Note: clicking on the ‘read more’ link will lead you to what looks like a broken page, this is due to the embedded music [...]

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