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Every so often someone finds a genius use of Twitter. And this is one such example, as an anonymous best man has utilised microblogging and technology to play a joke on his newlywed friends in brilliant fashion. - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Every so often someone finds a genius use of Twitter. And this is one such example, as an anonymous best man has utilised microblogging and technology to play a joke on his newlywed friends in brilliant fashion. Taking inspiration from the Twittering Office Chair, and a promise not to play any tricks on the groom before the wedding, this anonymous best man has used the honeymoon time to rig up the marital bed" - Badger Gravling

Real? Or a cunningly placed viral?... - Badger Gravling

Don't bother seeding them - just sent me a pair of each of the following: Stormtrooper, Millenium Falcon and X Wing trainers... - Badger Gravling

From the page: "The conditions are now perfect for a cohesive game universe to reach people 24/7, wherever they are, and whatever they are doing." - Badger Gravling

From the page: "If you're looking for an example of a significant financial return on Twitter, then Dell has long been used as an example - and you can expect it to be quoted even more often after revealing revenues have now risen to $6.5 million globally via Twitter." - Badger Gravling

OK, most of these are a bit naff, but the second monitor via USB is pretty cool and something that could be rather useful... - Badger Gravling

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was widely reported as joining Twitter today. Which was true. What happened next is his account, @ericschmidt0 appears to have been reset and claimed by someone else, while he's now appearing as @ericschmidt. Meaning a huge number of sites are pointing to the wrong account - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Absolute 80s is the UK's only 80s radio station. We're going to take you on a nostalgia trip, playing undisputed 1980s classics with an up-tempo party feel at night." - Badger Gravling

From the page: "For every criticism of the presumed mindless nature of Twitter conversation, itâ€s just as easy to find it being used in an interesting and useful way. For instance, published author Jeff Kirvin wasnâ€t sure of the way to kill a character in his current work, so he put the question out on Twitter. (HT Steve Rubel). And out of the suggestions he received he found some that might work, and enough to get him thinking more" - Badger Gravling

"Cheers for sharing, and sorry to hear you phone got pinched. If I'm going to buy a new phone, this second, with my own money, I'd be likely to go straight for the HTC Hero – the Dragon and Droid are interesting, and certainly one of the key things for me is battery life. The only other solution, which is what I currently do, is to carry two phones – one smart phone for working/emailing/photography etc, and one 'dumbphone', in this case an old Sony Eriksson walkman phone, which I can charge for 3 or 4 days of use, and use for listening to the odd podcast or album when there's nothing else around… And the best thing is that it's on Pay-As-You-Go, so it costs me nothing and means I can always be alerted by key people in an emergency without having any battery problems…" - Badger Gravling

"Hi, Thanks for the comments – the two business types that seem to be aggressively chasing Option 1 are definitely the internet portals like aol. and Yahoo, and potentially the copy-churning businesses that syndicate content for search engine optimisation at the moment. The interesting thing about the portals is finding out they're starting to target their writing based on what is prominent in their own search trends – a no brainer in many ways. The blog idea has been coming up in traditional media companies for ages, but it needs to be one of connecting disparate web properties, rather than amalgamating them all on one massive site. The problem that I encountered a lot of times, including at my former employers, is that they're only geared up for having one key property of scale for a sales force, and the idea of creating a self-service mechanism or sells across a network of small, targetted sites was completely alien. And that also means noone is talking to potential advertisers and..." - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Absolute Radio has more live online listening than either BBC Radio 1 or Radio 2, according to figures published by the commercial music station." - Badger Gravling

Presenter and staff choices for Song of the Decade http://www.songofthedecade.com ) - Badger Gravling

Electric car with an electric/diesel turbine to extend range when the batteries are flat - did they build this after watching Top Gear last week? - Badger Gravling

From the page: "UK newspaper The Sun is getting plenty of online coverage for a viral video it has created to capitalise on the interest in Apple's rumoured tablet computer. But what noone has mentioned is that the seeding started with paid Twitter advertising from Be A Magpie (referral link) And I know that because I've been running paid Twitter advertising for a while as a test, and spotted it in my approval queue early yesterday, which then got picked up first by Paid Content UK" - Badger Gravling

Absolute Radio becomes first European radio station to implement iTunes Tagging on the Apple iPod nano - Badger Gravling

Absolute Radio becomes the first radio station in Europe to implement iTunes Tagging for the Apple iPod Nano... - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Twitter and Facebook integration has come to two of the big three consoles of this generation with both the Xbox 360 and PS3 now allowing you to keep updated in between games. Although your Playstation will automatically update Facebook when you earn a new trophy in a game, apparently that functionality is missing for Twitter (I own an Xbox 360 instead so canâ't test). But Dirk Olbertz has come to the rescue " he emailed me to say that PS3Heroes.com now allows you to update your Twitter status with your new PS3 trophies. " - Badger Gravling

"I'm pretty familiar with this argument in favour of magazines, and it's one I've even used. But it does tend to ignore the fact there are so many tribal identifiers I alreayd posses - my footwear, jeans, t-shirt, jacket, haircut, etc. Plus my choice of phone, laptop, e-reader, the internet browser I use, the apps I have on my phone, etc, etc. And the fact that most people seem to be willing to forgo paying to display their tribal affiliation on the train on a regular basis in favour of a free paper! I don't think the reasoning doesn't exist, but I do worry that proponents of print tend to believe it has a more far-reaching effect than in reality." - Badger Gravling

From the page: "I started to think about my own 27 year+ love affair with videogames (Writing that made me feel shockingly old all of a sudden - I started young!) My own introduction to videogames was via a family friend who had a 48k Spectrum. I have memories of sitting around chatting and playing various games, before investing my time gently persuading my parents I had to have one." - Badger Gravling

"Funnily enough I've been thinking about specialist media a lot recently, and I think I've spotted a really big problem that they haven't even encountered yet which could cause a lot of disruption and problems in the near future." - Badger Gravling

From the page: "For a while it seemed as if building a third-party application for Twitter was a route to instant fortune (as were Facebook apps before it, and iPhone apps after it). But judging by the eventual sale of Twitter link tracker and aggregator Twitturly, it appears that bubble may now have burst." - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Anyone else making a link between the uproar when UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith revealed plans for private businesses like chemists and photo shops to record fingerprints and biometric data for the proposed national identity card scheme, and the news now that T-Mobile UK employees have been caught selling consumer data to outsiders?" - Badger Gravling

"1. My ISP .2. Xbox Live.3. Flickr." - Badger Gravling

From the page: "Although most people will have assumed that the @BarackObama account was staffed by members of his team and White House staff, it was easy to hope that a Blackberry-addicted new President might occasionally sneak a tweet in â€" especially given the account is always in the first-person, and given messages such as â€Humbled†on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. But it turns out almost 2.7 million people are following the Presidentâ€s team rather than the man himself, after he spoke in a Q session in Shanghai which was streamed on the internet. In it, he fielded a question about Twitter. His answer? â€oeI have never used Twitter but Iâ€m an advocate of technology and not restricting internet access.”" - Badger Gravling

From the page: "The mainstream media interest in videogames has generally only been sparked by the regular doses of outrage at whichever game is currently corrupting our children. Which is why Iâ€ve been so absorbed by the coverage of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, in which you go undercover and become part of a terrorist act â€" and also the media coverage which seems to be a more balanced and mature look at video game morality than weâ€ve previously had (Probably because most people in their 30s have grown up with videogames and are reasonably likely to have a current generation console in their house)." - Badger Gravling

Just voted for 'Drain the Blood' by The Distillers as my choice for Absolute Radio's Song of the Decade - Badger Gravling

"It's certainly got the basis of something interesting – but then again, what are the odds on Twitter themselves coming up with something similar for their oft-discussed brand tools for monetising the service?" - Badger Gravling

"Hi, and thanks for the comment – you're spot on with your regulator point, as it actually appeared in my feed reader shortly after I'd published this post, and I've been trying to find time to edit the copy since! And Brightsolid certainly would have the genealogy market pretty sewn up – I wonder if Friends Reunited will just gradually be phased out, or just kept on life support as a potential feeder for customers…" - Badger Gravling