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Monday 26 April 2010

WSJ Experiments With Location-Based News (via @rww)

Checking-in at a venue around town with the Foursquare mobile location app could now come with a thought provoking payload: a news link related to the place you're at. The Wall St. Journal announced today that as a part of its new focus on covering New York City, links to Journal stories about various locations will now be offered as tips when Foursquare users check in.

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Friday 23 April 2010

Cory Doctorow's email tip: delete everything received whilst on holiday (via Seth Godin)

And a bonus tip from Cory Doctorow, who gets more email than you and me combined: When you go on vacation, set up an autoreply that says, "I'm on vacation until x/x/2010. When I get back, I'm going to delete all the email that arrived while I was gone, so if this note is important, please send it to me again after that date."

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Sunday 18 April 2010

10 Mobile Trends Impacting Consumer Engagement

Missed this presentation at MIPTV last week. But fortunately (or unfortunately?) I'm not stranded in Cannes...

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Friday 16 April 2010

Excellent short film: PIXELS

Very nice... (via @sebrobert)

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