I think every PC gamer has experienced a particular brand of annoyance when they’re engaged in a long or intense session: quitting the game to find an open instant message, a missed skype call or reams of Twitter posts. At the moment solutions are fairly crude – I periodically alt-tab to check for new messages. Others use secondary devices such as smartphones or even laptops in order to keep track of their social network while [...]

I remember reading a tweet recently from someone about how the internet was evolving from standalone websites that function independently from each other, and towards a collection of service and content providers interlinked through shared APIs and XML. It’s already possible to see it in action in various locations across the web – the popular website Mashable contains a good amount of coverage on how new products are emerging that are powered by these new [...]

To follow or not to follow? It started off as a simple enough question asked by Glen Le Santo yesterday over twitter. Is there a form of twitter etiquette that suggests that you should follow back everyone that follows you? Needless to say, the responses were many and varied but most seemed to be selective about who they follow back. It seems that for most of us we tend to read up on who our [...]

It’s been a few days since the news broke that Facebook had acquired FriendFeed in what was described as “an 11th hour deal“. Since then, the tech media have been trying to come to terms with what this means for the social networking industry and where it’s likely to lead. What’s captivating is that many of these articles see this as a fight for users between Google and Facebook over the concept of real-time search [...]