An interview with Mark Shuttleworth
07/08/2010 • Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS is a major release of the operating system Mark Shuttleworth and his company Canonical first released in 2004. In this interview with Simon Dingle Shuttleworth discusses the significance of the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, competitor operating systems, the move to cloud services, open source advocacy and how it has changed in recent years, application distribution, social networking, smartphones and other topics. ...more
Country codes for world cup tweets
06/14/2010 • The FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa has been featured solidly on Twitter since kickoff on Friday 11 June ...more
Why I won’t be quitting Facebook today
05/31/2010 • Today is Facebook Suicide Day. What I suspect is a very small group of Facebook users plan to delete their accounts along with all their personal information residing on the social networking service. The reason they're doing this is due to Facebook's shifting privacy policies and what seems to be a personal problem with the company's young CEO Mark Zuckerberg. I won't be deleting anything today except a few press releases in my inbox. But that doesn't mean I approve of Facebook's user privacy policies either. ...more
The smart user’s guide to getting productive with Twitter
01/14/2010 • Twitter has become an integral part of both work and play for millions of its users. It's insanely useful and ...more
Commit social suicide
01/05/2010 • My parents are now on Facebook. Which is cool - it's probably the best way to share pictures of the ...more
Congratulations Anthony!
06/02/2009 • The Nokia 'Search for N' competition is over and we have a winner. Anthony Lourandos was the first person to ...more