Monthly Archives: March 2014

Is anyone using the 4 image upload on Twitter?

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Hari Patience

  Short answer, no. Or rather, not yet. The only one I could spot on my Twitter feed was the official account for Twitter in the UK. Now admittedly this particular update was apparently only been rolled out to iPhone users, … Continue reading →

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Is LinkedIn intentionally spamming me?

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Hari Patience

Seriously, no joke. Is LinkedIn trying to get all of its messages labelled as Spam and sent to the unsubscribe bin? Because that’s what’s going to happen if they don’t undo whatever they did and STOP SENDING ME A DOZEN … Continue reading →

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Are 70% of smartphone users in Europe really on Android?

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Hari Patience

Haymarket published some interesting smartphone stats over on their blog last week. I don’t spend a lot of time hanging out on the corporate blogs of my company’s competitors but I will admit this one caught my eye. Are nearly … Continue reading →

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Kickstarter dreams – LapTape

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Hari Patience

Now this looks weird but I think it might be kinda genius. God knows my arms get tired when I’m trying to watch things on my iPad on the sofa. You know what? It’s £13 for one on Kickstarter. I’m … Continue reading →

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Interviewly makes Reddit AMAs readable

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Hari Patience

Reddit scares me. There I’ve said it. It’s not the content, or the creepyness, or the fact that are entire subReddits dedicated to some really dark and disturbing stuff. No, it’s the appearance of the thing. I just can’t handle … Continue reading →

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Kickstarter dreams – the Upstanding desk

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Hari Patience

So someone needs to tell me why I don’t need to have this in my life. Because I wants it. I wants it SO BADLY. I’m nearly six foot tall and I’ve had back issues ever since my primary mode … Continue reading →

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Uses for Tumblr #2 – not just another social media site

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Hari Patience

Tumblr has yet to become quite as commercialised as some of the other social media platforms. About the only overly commercial posts I ever seen on Tumblr (all since Yahoo took over, boo hiss) have been for horror movies. But that’s … Continue reading →

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Uses for Tumblr #1 – Anonymity

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Hari Patience

In one of the various other guises I wear online I’ve spent a lot of time on Tumblr in the past year. I joined to try and figure out what, if any, uses there were for a blogging platform with … Continue reading →

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What LinkedIn did next

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Hari Patience

Back in my early days of my current job I used to run lunchtime digital training sessions and the first one I ever led was about LinkedIn. It was key, I thought. Here is a social media site full of … Continue reading →

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