Rumors are rife in the tech scene that Apple are about to release their tablet, but this Tablet made by The Sun has some very special features too..watch to find out what they are!
Archive for November, 2009
The Sun’s piss take of Apple! By on Monday November 30th, 2009 6 comments
Colombian Gay Street Carnival- white powder, girls, boys, beer and foam! By on Thursday November 26th, 2009 6 comments
A couple of weeks ago I was in Columbia working for online travel company CuriousTravellers.com. As soon as we arrived we got whisked off to this gay pride street party where the locals were armed with foam. We got sick of being the victims so my brother, who had come for the weekend, bought the team of guide, translator, producer, camera man and I cans of foam which ended in a massive foam fight! We were in the town of Cartagena for the festivities surrounding the independence day of the 11th November.
Female Internet Heroes-The Next Women dinner with Stephanie Phair, theoutnet.com By on Thursday November 26th, 2009 No comments
We were at The Next Women dinner in Global Entrepreneurship Week where Stephanie Phair, Director of theoutnet.com gave a talk on her experiences on being a female entrepreneur.
Reid Hoffman, founder LinkedIn on the competition in China, advice for entrepreneurs and getting me drunk! By on Thursday November 26th, 2009 No comments
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman put on a party on Tuesday night to celebrate LinkedIn hitting 3 Million UK members. Drinks, piano and canapes were at the Imagination Gallery, I caught up with Reid and asked him about competitor Viadeo having more members in France and China, what advice he had for European entrepreneurs and also how LinkedIn is going to innovate for survival in a overcrowded social networking space.
It’s a bit of a shouty interview because the room was loud and I’d already had a few glasses of champers! Thanks Ried:)
Why apps and not gadgets are the future of tech By on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 9 comments
Since having my iPhone my handbag has become lots lighter; instead of carrying a camera, video camera, voice recorder I am now just carrying my iPhone which not only has all the tools I need as a blogger/journalist, but also gives me direct access to my distribution channel via the Internet. I am constantly using apps like TweetDeck, Twitpic, Audioboo, and Twidvid to upload pictures/videos/voice which then feeds through my Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn directly to my network.
Instead of carrying three or four devices that are each do one thing, I am carrying one which does all things and there’s no faffing with cables, transferring or editing -I can upload to the Internet from pretty much anywhere In real-time.
For me the next phase of the web is about simplicity, consolidation and real-time. Real-time is this year’s buzz word in tech due to the huge success of services like twitter which show people’s need for wanting short stabs of information right now. Simplicity is what Facebook did where MySpace failed and consolidation might save the planet- What I mean is the 50,000 apps that the iPhone offers means that your iPhone can potentially be 50,000 different things. In the past these 50,000 different things could have been manufactured gadgets/gizmo/games -think of all the energy needed to make, manufacture and distribute them.
Of course gadgets will have a place in the market, especially at Christmas when no one knows what to buy Dad, so they buy him one of these tablet computers that teaches you how to cook. He uses once on Christmas day, burns the turkey and then the gadget, like so many others, gets shoved in a dark drawer for the rest of its life.
Why would you have a separate tablet that gets recipes off the Internet when you can just use your netbook which also gives you access to your iTunes, Facebook and everything else?
I’ve got the same beef with e-readers. Inevitably net books/laptops will become tablet like or devices like iPhones/smart phones will get a little bigger so they will actually resemble an e-reader. It would be stupid to carry round two devices looking exactly the same- why wouldn’t you just use your tablet with for example, a books app? ‘But e-readers have a special sun mode which means you can read outside and it doesn’t hurt you eyes’ I hear you say. It won’t be long before netbooks/laptops/iPhones have the same ‘sun’ reading mode that you can switch to.
And to all the Android lovers – It’s not just iPhone that will have all these apps, Android is heading it the same direction. Google’s Chrome OS is clearly putting the emphasis on apps instead of software and no doubt their phone will do the same.
The e-reader market is huge and will no doubt continue to be for a couple of years but I don’t think they will have longevity as tablets with a reading mode will dominate.
I think the future will be about apps, you will have one device that can do many things, not many that do one.
I would be interested to know how many unused gadgets do you have at home? I have around 20.
Techfluff.tv teams up with ComputerWeekly to bring you ComputerGeekly! By on Monday November 23rd, 2009 7 comments
Techfluff.tv’s parent company Newspepper.com has been busy plotting and making a weekly podcast for ComputerWeekly. We’re calling it…Computer Geekly!
With our first episode launching today we’ll be bringing you a weekly round up of the top three stories in tech from the previous week. There’s so much information on the Internet, it’s hard to keep up with it all – Well worry not I have a condition which means I have to be online 24-7 so I’ll be picking out the top three biggest stories in tech every week so make sure you stay tuned so you don’t miss out!
Top three biggest stories in tech last week:
Send anything, anywhere, without an address-SendSocial.com launches today! By on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 24 comments
How many addresses to you remember? If like me, you have the memory of a goldfish and tend to move house every six months you’ll find it hard enough remembering your own postcode let alone your family and friends. Launching today, SendSocial.com is aiming to solve the address issue by enabling you to send anything, anywhere without an address.
How it works is you can send an item knowing only your recipient’s Twitter ID or email address. SendSocial will send your request to the individual, and – if they choose to accept – SendSocial will take their address details from them.
You’ll then receive a notification that they’re happy to hear from you, and will be asked to confirm the collection address and pay by credit or debit card. Once this is complete, they’ll provide you with an address-less label to stick to your package, which will be collected by myHermes , our delivery partners, and delivered in 3-5 working days.
I’m surprised this idea hasn’t been thought of before as the whole notion of having to acquire a physical address for post seems medieval to me. I seem to run out of time at the end of the year for finding postal addresses and queuing at the damn post office, so Christmas presents from me amount to a phone call and a slurring video message on friend’s Facebook walls. #badfriend
What SendSocial needs to do now is integrate with Facebook- many of my good friends from school whom send me cards and presents every year haven’t caught on to Twitter and I don’t have their email addresses, but we are Facebook friends and these are the friends that I’ll really like to send pressies to.
They also need to integrate PayPal as a payment system and also integrate direct with consumer sites- So, for example, I can purchase and send a present direct from Harrods.com without an address.
Young inventor scoops a £50,000 prize at The Pitch 2009 By on Thursday November 19th, 2009 No comments
Lindsay Nevins is an event organizer who is helping out at Techfluff.tv, she reports from the The Pitch 2009, held last Monday.
“I recently attended The Pitch 2009 final and conference on November 16, 2009. Without having any previous knowledge of the conference I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was basically a replica of the “Dragon’s Den” brought to a much smaller scale. I arrived just in time to participate in the ‘speed networking’ exercise, facilitated by Oli Barrett, the founder of Connected Capital and Make Your Mark with a Tenner. Barrett helped motivate interaction among the audience by first making sure that everyone was seated next to, or near, someone they had never met before and second, kept the communication limited by blowing a whistle every 5 minutes within a 20min period. I thoroughly agreed with Barrett’s views on the importance of networking, because you never know who is going to be beneficial to you in the future. However, given my experience with ‘speed networking’ I believe it is more focused on quantity and less so on the quality of the people you network with.
Immediately following ‘speed networking’ were the pitches, where 30 entrepreneurs competed in 5 cities for the chance to pitch their ideas in the hopes of winning a £50,000 prize. The 6 individual winners were Super Mouth from the South West, BEEcycle from the North, The Printed Bag Shop from Scotland, Get Set Schools from the Midlands, Cyclehoop from the South East and the wild card winner Lily Pins. Each participant had 3 minutes to deliver their pitch which was followed by 7 minutes of Q&A by the judges. All of the participants had their strong and weak moments, although it was clear who came the best prepared for this competition.
After the pitches were finished, the judges had 30 minutes to deliberate and returned back with their choice for the best 2009 Pitch, and the winner was Anthony Lau, Founder of Cyclehoop. Cyclehoop is a cost-effective and environmentally friendly new way to help ensure bike security and increase the number of available parking spaces. In my opinion, Lau was by far the best candidate; he delivered his pitch with confidence and had a strong knowledge of his product as well as the appropriate data to support its benefits to society.
I thoroughly enjoyed the conference, and I think The Pitch is a great way to give smaller businesses and entrepreneurs and chance market themselves and hopefully win £50,000 in the process.”
Get Stuck In! This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week! By on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 No comments
Today is the second day of Global Entrepreneurship Week – A week long string of events happening all over the world. It started as a UK- wide event and then went global. To find out about an event happening near you check out their site and the Techfluff team are at a number of events this week so check us out for news and events!
