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Earlier this week, Facebook announced their location sharing service “Facebook Places“. If you’re familiar with services like Foursquare and Gowalla then you’ll know what to expect here… when you’re out-and-about you ‘check-in’ at your destination – an action which lets your friends (and possibly other people) know where you are. Like a lot of social [...]

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been watching with interest Raul’s tweets about Preventable (‘The Community Against Preventable Injuries’ – a non-profit aimed at reducing the number of preventable injuries in BC).
I love what they’re doing… the idea that so many injuries are ‘accidents’ that just happen is rubbish and has annoyed me for [...]

My friend Tyler over at www.tyleringram.com today reviewed Tweetie – a Twitter application for the iPhone. Tweetie looks good – I mean REALLY good. In fact it looks more functional than many of the desktop Twitter applications that I’ve tried.
Unfortunately today was not a good day for the developers behind Tweetie. They released a new [...]

Twitter is an important part of my daily life, but not nearly as important as it is to my wife.
At the time of writing, I have under 30 followers, her twitter account at @juicybags has somewhere around 1800, and she tweets dozens of times a day. She tweets about the things she’s interested in and [...]