#“Quick Google+, Now’s Your Chance, Facebook is Down” Ah blast, it’s not 2007 and this isn’t Jaiku vs Twitter. Or maybe Apple bought them and they are re-branding to iFacebook for today’s iPad Quad-Cam Turbo launch. Blogpost coming soon on how LinkedIn is the one most in danger from Google+. I’m seeing tons of business activity there. More on this later. »
#“Fiiiiinnnnnally, the first proper leaked pictures of the iPad 3” Next up, “Top Ten Ways You Can Use That Steaming Pile of Garbage iPad 2 as a Food Tray” »
#“This is how to sell products - DollarShaveClub.com” Spotted this on PandoDaily (great piece by Sarah). Love this video for Dollar Shave Club. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI My version of that, over this side of the pond, is to use King of Shaves blades and razors. »
#“MIT App Inventor Open Beta Preview” For the past two months, we have been conducting a closed test of the system for an increasing number of testers, and weve currently scaled to 5000 testers. Today, were taking the next step, and opening the MIT App Inventor service to everyone. All you will need is a Google ID for log-in (for example, a Gmail account). via Announcing: MIT App Inventor Open Beta Preview | App Inventor Edu. »
#“BBC iPlayer Global on iPad - Nice App if you need it” I was contacted recently by a Social Media Agency working on the BBC iPlayer Global project. They were interested in my thoughts on the iPlayer and very kindly gave me a month free on the iPad. As regular readers know, I seem to spend more time trying to create the perfect TV viewing setup than actually watching the telly, so of course I was interested in trying it out. »
#“Poll - Do you have an LCD/Plasma TV with HDMI?” Just to be sure I’m not living in a middle-class fantasyland, it’d be great to get as many people from as many backgrounds as possible to answer this poll. I know I know, if you are on Facebook/Twitter, it’s already skewing it badly, but let’s give it a go. Basically I want to confirm that Raspberry Pi with its HDMI video output is inclusive for the majority of people in UK/Ireland. »
#“Lego should partner with Raspberry Pi and App Inventor” I’ve written before about how Lego Mindstorms is ridiculously overpriced. Whilst the intent was probably good, it is so far from the brilliance of cheap educational plastic blocks that they need to start again. I love the idea of building robotics kits and teaching kids about basic programming in the process. In theory I’m also a big fan of MIT App Inventor having Mindstorms integration but the problem is price. »
#“My Sexy New iPad Bag” I pondered Prada or Targus, but in the end, I went with this beauty. All the better for the stickers on the back too. 100% guaranteed not to get stolen. »
#“I never knew reCAPTCHA was used to help digitize old books” Yesterday on Twitter I jokingly suggested that Facebook’s CAPTCHA had a “sure that’s close enough” setting since there was no way I’d guessed the second word correctly. Then two people pointed out that the second word was optional. I was gobsmacked. Years of hitting refresh until I got a word I could read, followed by the stress of guesssing, wasted! »
#“Don’t buy one Raspberry Pi, buy two and donate one to your local programming club” What a seriously great idea from @Elana. Whether your kids go to Code Ninja; Coder Dojo; a club in their school; or the Munster Programming Training in UCC, they should be looking at Raspberry Pi. What the heck is Raspberry Pi? <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="wmode" value="default" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="flashvars" value="playlist=http://playlists. »