Stephen Fry, the British comedian and actor, is a fully-fledged geek. Now, in an interview with the BBC, he has lashed out at a generation of technophobic judges who don’t understand the internet. More »
You can launch pretty much any iPhone app on the iPad. If it’s not a universal app, it’ll look all pixelated and ugly and you’ll wonder why the developer hasn’t gotten around to making an iPad version of the app. Maybe the developer’s happy with just an iPhone app. Maybe they’ll rush an iPad app into the store and it won’t take full advantage of the iPad’s capabilities. Or, maybe they’ll create an app that’s worth the wait. Tweetbot for iPad is the last one. More »
Twitter has caught some flack in other countries for giving accounts free reign on what they can tweet. Twitter responded that it’ll adjust its policy to include the ability to censor tweets if a country demands it to. We just might see Twitter’s first high profile case sooner than later because Brazil just sued Twitter for allowing accounts to tweet where DUI checkpoints are. More »
If, like mine, your partner thinks you have a problem because you check social media and email too often, it turns out they might be right. A new study suggests that checking our phones and computers is more addictive than alcohol and cigarettes. More »
Martin Kaltenbrunner, Professor at the Interface Culture Lab in Linz, and all-around innovator of anachronisms, has designed a device capable of translating Morse code into a Twitter post. More »
In a continuing trend of government agencies having no idea how humour on Twitter works, a South Korean activist was arrested last week for ironically retweeting the North Korean government. More »
Facebook was down. And now it’s apparently back up. But wait, it might still be down?! AGH!!! Thank god for Twitter.
LeVar Burton needs our help. The former host of classic educational series and childhood TV staple Reading Rainbow is trying to acquire the Twitter handle @ReadingRainbow. However his efforts have come to no avail. The name’s been bogarted by an unknown party and left to rot for over three years. More »
In a fun convergence of dumb social media behaviour and bureaucratic ineptitude, two idiotic Brits were detained by armed guards at Los Angeles International Airport for incredibly dumb (but totally harmless) tweets about “destroying America” and “diggin’ up Marilyn Monroe”. More »
