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1 Week with the iPad – Does exactly what it says on the tin!

1 Week with the iPad – Does exactly what it says on the tin!

by mearo on 09. Jun, 2010 in Apple, Gadgets, In The News, Mobile

So, I’ve been living with the Apple iPad for approximately 1 week now. I have the 16GB WiFi version retailing at £429 and I have to say it is a very sexy bit of kit. Out of the box it’s simple to setup, you just need to plug it into the latest version of iTunes, [...]

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Micropayments – A New Revenue Model?

by mearo on 19. May, 2009 in In The News, Internet

So what exactly are micropayments then?  As ever Wikipedia is bang on the money.  “Micropayments are means for transferring very small amounts of money i.e. 1/1000th of a dollar.  They are typically payments that are too small to be affordably processed by credit card or other electronic transaction processing mechanisms”. So why am I writing [...]

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Show Me The Money! How To Monetise Twitter

by mearo on 19. Feb, 2009 in Digital Advertising, Featured, In The News, Internet, Marketing, Social Media, Twitter

Twitter is the now quite rightfully the new kid on the block and why not?  It’s about time we had a new poster child for the so-called social web.  Like many startups it has a lot of users, is growing rapidly, and has a lot of VC funding.  What’s more it’s also has a distinct lack [...]

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Hudson River Crash Photo from Twitter

The Real-Time Web

by mearo on 09. Feb, 2009 in In The News, Internet, Social Media, Twitter

If a huge news story breaks, where are you going to go first? Switch on the TV, try BBC News, CNN, maybe. But what if you are at work…….? Ok, let’s say a plane crashes into New York’s Hudson River? Like many the first port of call for such an event is the web. Now we [...]

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