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Can you Predict the X Factor Winner using Twitter?

December 9, 2009

I thought this was pretty interesting,  the  full article is worth a read, see the link below. Bil Tancer at Hitwise occasionally tries to predict talent show winners by studying Search activity, but there are now too many dynamics to interpret to be able to use internet data to easily predict X Factor winners and losers this year. [...]

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Cookie Sniffing and Trading

May 7, 2009

What does that mean? There are networks of  companies  who create cookies on your machine and use these to track  your behaviour  across multiple websites.                         And in English? You will see ad  based content on one site based on  your activity on another and you won’t even  know it  happened.                         Who invented   it? [...]

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World of Goo – Game review

February 1, 2009

This has to be my favourite game on the the Wii and i got it from  WiiWare.  It’s produced by a small team and is proof that you do not need millions  to create a compelling game. There are more than four worlds, each housing  unique stages and varying objectives around using the  strengths and [...]

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A post about Joel on Software

February 24, 2007

I have had this book for many years and often use it for referance, but over the last week i read it from cover to cover (again). It really is a great book, with good insight for software professional. The posts printed within are mainly from 2000-2002, but none the less the messages and thoughts [...]

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Describing web 2.0

January 2, 2007

to paraphrase former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, who wrote that he couldn’t describe pornography but knew it when he saw it, it may not be possible to fully describe Web 2.0, but you will know it when you see it. see Web 2.0 and New Approaches to Software for full article.

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A day at heathrow

December 23, 2006

On Wednesday i arrived at Heathrow for my 11am flight to Amsterdam only to find it had been delayed by an hour; not noticing the other flights, i thought nothing of it. However, once i had gone though security the shear number of people told the true story. The flight was then delayed till 3pm, [...]

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My techncial (weekly) podcast listening

September 6, 2006

I keep on getting asked which podcasts I listen to, so i thought it a good idea to add a link to my favourites here. I listen to each of these on a weekly basis, this takes up all my communiting time, but it is time well spent. If you have time to only listen [...]

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Aborted Landing at Innsbruk Airport

September 4, 2006

oh what fun, i am not the greatest fan of flying, so an aborted landing was not the most pleasant experiance in the past week. We were only about 200 feet off the ground when the pilot decided to go to full power and point his plane at the sky (there are a number of [...]

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