Digital Technology and Interesting Shit from the Interweb
News of a further update to Google’s search algorithm will undoubtedly have many bloggers, webmasters, internet marketers and sploggers quaking in their boots. If Panda didn’t get you, and this one does, it could mean a massive drop in income. The new page layout algorithm is aimed at websites and blogs that display too many [...]
How to see more or less of what your friends are saying on Facebook By default your Facebook account is set up to see MOST UPDATES from friends, as opposed to ALL UPDATES. Some coding within Facebook’s algorithm automatically decides which status updates you should see. The decisions are based on your previous interactions with [...]
Websites across the internet are today disabling access to their pages in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Wikipedia, WordPress.com, Boing Boing and others have added blackout notices. Twitter remains open, as does Facebook. This is what some of the sites look like today: Wikipedia Google.com Tell Congress: [...]
Google has officially announced and launched Search, plus Your World. What it does is bring together the organic search results, the results from content you’ve shared with others (through platforms like Google+) and content from your own websites and social profiles (Flickr, Quora, FriendFeed etc). The good news is you can switch between personal results [...]
Let me tell you why I love Spotify. As a man who has seen over forty birthdays I find it difficult to get as excited about music as I used to. And as a family man I don’t have the right any more to spend hours locked in my room listening to classics from my [...]
Tweetsheet is an online app that converts your Twitter activity into an infographic. All you have to do is grant access to the app in the usual way and give it a few seconds to find an analyze your last 3200 tweets. The result is an inforgraphic similar to the one above, which is taken [...]
Netflix operates very successfully in the US and is now opening its servers to residents of the UK and Ireland. For just £5.99 per month customers can instantly watch as many films and TV shows as they want. And to attract a rush of early sign ups Netflix is offering new users a month long [...]
