Symfony Live 2012 kicks off in San Francisco tomorrow!
Tomorrow sees the start of the second Symfony Live conference in San Francisco following on from the success of the 2011 inaugural event. This year's edition is particularly exciting following the …
read moreMaking money from Youtube by provoking outrage and controversy?
Over the past week a video posted on Youtube has sparked a major international relations crisis as well as many incidents of violent unrest around the world - …
read moreApple vs. Samsung: 5 things we learnt
The Apple vs. Samsung patent war has recently been the major tech story in most mainstream media outlets: not surprising when we remember that many news organisations basically …
read moreWhat other items can your smartphone swallow?
The smartphone is a complex beast. Once upon a time we used to have pagers, mobile phones, digital cameras, mp3 players, gameboys, PDA's, calculators and GPS navigators. All …
read morePlatelets – touchscreen’s design paradigm
It's not often that Star Trek accurately forecasts the shape of technology thirty years down the line. Warp speed and teleportation, for example, remain distinctly in the fiction half of …
read moreCreditright vs Copyright – One could work but makes little money, …
Jeff Jarvis over at BuzzMachine is always worth a read, especially for those interested in issues of intellectual property, journalism, publishing and the web. This week he's been …
read moreA few words on geeks & hackers in Hollywood cinema
Computer geeks and hackers are an increasingly common breed in Hollywood films these days, having come a long way from their early appearances in features of the 1980's …
read moreTechnology around the home – what’s next?
Every now and then most tech bloggers allow themselves a post or two in which they simply let their imaginations roam, dreaming up what technology will look like …
read moreWhere ISN’T social media ubiquitous?
With pretty much everyone you know on at least nine social networks these days, it's sometimes easy to forget that there are parts of the world where joining …
read moreThe Best of Both Worlds: Drupal 8 to Incorporate Symfony Components
Here at EtonDigital we eagerly welcomed the recent announcement that the new version of Drupal would incorporate various major Symfony components. Now, as the August release date for …
read moreDigg: a perfect example of the fantasy economics of web & …
Digg, a company founded only a few weeks after Facebook and one of the first websites to introduce a social element to online news, has this week been …
read moreAcademic social networking: Why isn’t Academia.edu better?
As a young research student at a UK university, I'm frequently both excited and frustrated by Academia.edu - the web's biggest social network designed specifically for academics. Launched …
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