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    October marks the ninth annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, so I assumed there would be a few interesting posts about raising awareness about cyber security. However – Today I read in the Telegraph, that parents are worried that children can get porn on their mobile phones…. While of course I do want our ... Read More »

Via.Me, the First App to Offer Photo, Video, Audio Filtering and Sharing to Multiple Social Networks, Is Now Available on Android Via.me is a social media publishing platform created by RadiumOne Labs that has been available on iTunes for Apple iPhone users for over 5 months which has proved very popular by its 1 millions users. And now on September ... Read More »

What song is this – What’s that track – Tra la la. Is that a familiar question? All day you have had that annoying song going around in your head, you have no idea what the artist or the title of the track is, and you only know a few words, which doesn’t come up in a Google search. (Yes ... Read More »

Three months after launching its new android 3.0 tablet application, The startup  Thoora - a content discovery engine, based in Canada. is closing… indefinitely. Purpleplanet and I first wrote about Thoora here - Aggregate and curate your favourite content - we believed then it was going strong.    Nothing has been said yet on their twitter account, which has 26k followers…. Today we ... Read More »

Today on 8th December 2011 Twitter announced a new version of Twitter, they say that they have simplified the design to make it easier to follow, connect and discover. They will be rolling this version out over the next few weeks but you can already get it on mobile iPhone or Android, just download from iTunes or Marketplace. So did ... Read More »

Opinionaided is a mobile social networking application designed for asking opinions and advice to a large community in realtime.   Similar to Quora (which came after)  but from what I’ve seen it seems that this one is more used by the younger generation for questions such as.. Do you like my new hairstyle?  or Am I good-looking  -  where as Quora ... Read More »

Who or what is Blippar… and why is it going to kill the QR code!? Blippar is a Uk Company that launched its free image recognition application earlier this year in android and apple stores. Blippar™ is the first universal augmented reality platform aimed at advertisers.   Blippar is a new way to advertise or to get people interested in ... Read More »

Yes, you can order Domino’s pizza from your iPhone, in minutes without even speaking to anyone. I thought it was time I stopped blogging about Facebook for one second and blog about the Domino’s Pizza application on iTunes, seeing as I was asked so nicely.  This application was developed by Somo who states they are the leading independent European mobile marketing agency, specialising in strategy, design and build ... Read More »

Loic Le Meur the founder of Seesmic who developed the social networking clients is now launching Seesmic CRM at Salesforsce’s Dreamforce conference. @loic not only has some great kite surfing photos he was once named one of the 25 most influential people on the web. This is no great suprise as he is always available on many networks to talk ... Read More »

The Milna application has been officially launched FREE on the  App store and the Android Market place. Milna was the brainchild of  Prathap Chandran @notprathap who then involved  Aanjhan Ranganathan @tuxmaniac   his now business partner and Milna was born. Milna is a location based social networking service which uses your 3G or Wifi and your GPS coordinates to communicate with fellow Milna ... Read More »