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Have you tried Instagram iPhone app for image sharing yet?

Published on November 2, 2010 in Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, mobile and social media. View Comments

Here’s a little iPhone app I’m now using that I think is pretty cool.

Instagr.am is a new image sharing service (currently just for iPhone) that enables you to take a photo, or use an existing photo from your iPhone photo library, and share it. There is also a decent choice of interesting filters you can quickly apply to each photo and preview before uploading.

I think the really handy things about this service are that it’s really easy to use, and that you can crosspost the images to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Tumblr if you so desire – greatly increasing the sharing aspect. You can also locate a photo using Foursquare before you share it. As Foursquare doesn’t yet have image uploads the way Gowalla does, it’s a welcome addition.

It’ll be interesting to see how this service develops, if it develops. Surely they’ll be adding platforms other than iPhone, if they have the funds to do so.

If you’ve used Instagram, what do you think of it? Good enough to keep using? If you haven’t, do check it out.

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‘The Social Network’ movie: “Like”, a lot [review].

Published on October 28, 2010 in Australia, Facebook and social media. View Comments

Not long ago I previewed The Social Network movie, so I thought I should see it as soon as it came out here in Australia and report back. Turns out the film lived up to my reasonably high expectations, given that it’s directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, and has had many good reviews.

The film really focuses on the relationship between co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin (who was forced out of the company but I understand still owns about 5%), and to a lesser extent the relationships between Zuckerberg, Saverin and Sean Parker. Sean Parker, who founded Napster, helped Zuckerberg during the early stages of the company and also owns a small but valuable percentage.

The film also deals with the case between Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss twins, the Harvard classmates who accused Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for Facebook from them and then sued him for ownership of it.

Jesse Eisenberg is brilliant as Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Garfield is good as Eduardo Saverin. Beyond expectation, even Justin Timberlake is not bad at all in the role of Sean Parker.

Even if you’re not into Facebook and know or care little about the founding of the company, seeing the tensions between the characters involved is fascinating. Needless to say, I’m sure many of the situations never happened, or not in the way portrayed, but the elements of loyalty, envy and competitiveness certainly go together to make great drama viewing.

By the way, the first scene is brilliantly written and sets the tone for the whole film, so don’t be late if you’re going to see it at the cinema. Go and see it though, I definitely recommend it. “Like”.

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I took a holiday and that included not blogging, so there.

Published on October 27, 2010 in Australia, Twitter, blogging, environment and social media. View Comments

Well it’s been pretty quiet around here for the past couple of weeks hasn’t it? I took a couple of weeks off for a beach holiday with the fam, up the coast in Port Stephens. Beautiful spot! (see pic).

Obviously I didn’t blog while on holiday, and I didn’t pre-write any posts and schedule them to be published while I was away, as many would advise. I just had a much needed holiday and I’m not apologising for it, just explaining where I’ve been. It was good. I think taking some time off to recharge and reflect on life is important.

If you follow some of my tweets you’ll know that I didn’t take a holiday from tweeting. I just tweeted less, and about holiday activities, and on thoughts mostly stimulated by holiday reading. Holiday tweeting is different from usual tweeting, so there.

I’m back now. What did I miss?

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Q: Do you think the fun “I like it on…” meme helps to raise awareness?

Published on October 7, 2010 in Facebook, Twitter and social media. View Comments

No doubt many of you are aware of the fun “I like it on…” meme that’s been spreading through Facebook, and to a certain extent on Twitter as well.

Although not immediately clear, this sexy meme has taken hold to raise awareness for breast cancer. From what I’ve read about it so far, nobody seems to know where the meme originated, although a few people must.

The “I like it” phrase actually refers to where women usually put their purses, not favourite places for love making, which is of course the first thing that comes to mind when you read the statuses.

The meme has certainly been successful in terms of going viral! It’s everywhere. Rather than giving my opinion on it, I’d like to ask you whether or not you think this kind of meme helps to raise awareness for cancer research? What are your thoughts?

Please feel free to leave a comment here, or reply via Twitter or Facebook :)

The above image is a snap from “Posts by Everyone” on Facebook.

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The future is already here: amazing wearable interactive technology.

Published on October 5, 2010 in Google, business, mobile, technology and video. View Comments

One of the criticisms I often hear from people about the web (even social media) and computing in general, is that it tends to divorce us from the ‘real world’. The main criticism seems to be that as we spend more time interacting with screens, we are less present and attentive in the physical world, and with the people around us.

However, it could be argued that with the recent development and popularisation of mobile devices such as smart phones and touch screen tablets, we are increasingly able to interact with the world of data while being more ‘present’ in the physical world. We are no longer stuck in one room in front of a screen. Increasingly, the worlds of computing and digital connectivity are going mobile.

There are also many new applications being developed in response to this new digital mobility. One such development is Google Googles, which just today has been released onto the Google iPhone app, in addition to the existing Android platform. Another example is the recent proliferation of augmented reality apps for mobile platforms.

The embedded video however, shows something on a whole new level in terms of the possibilities of the physical world interacting with the world of data. It’s nothing short of amazing. In the video Pranav Mistry demos his SixthSense wearable device, which allows an incredible degree of interaction between data and the physical world. And to my mind, two of the great things about his invention are that he’s making the technology open source and surprisingly, it’s not expensive!

Are we seeing the future of popular mobile technology here?

Hat tip to David Hood

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