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Where I’ve Been This Week

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All About Symbian The latest version of Omar Sharif Bridge from ZingMagic and John Holloway. The importance of customer-developer communications. What’s holding back location based services. Review of Glu Mobile’s World Series Poker 3. Mass Memory and the balancing act Nokia makes between tech and budgets. The Daily Dust How does a Hung Parliament work? The car that power-slides into a parking spot. The meanest streets in Scotland are all in Glasgow. Helen Mirren’s husband gets into double trouble. All we know is he might be called The Stig Wally…. TPN Rock TPN Rock, Friday Rock Show #163 The Unofficial

Where I’ve Been This Week

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All About Symbian A look at Endomondo, the social network for fitness tracking and support. An All About Symbian Insight special that looks at the Nokia N8, announced this week The secret spec sheet of the N8 – humour which seems to have delighted half the @aas audience and mystified the others. A quick look at HP’s purchase of Palm. The Nokia 5230 firmware update to v20.0.005. Nokia’s beta labs release the next version of Point and Find. The Daily Dust The Next Web conference reminds me of Eurovision. What if YouTube is closing down for the night? East London

Where I’ve been this week

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All About Symbian Nokia have forgotten your favourite phone – get over it. All About Symbian Insight podcast, with Rafe Blandford. It’s raining Qwerty keyboard devices from Nokia. Review of SPB’s Quads Game. Giffgaff launch their rates and tariffs for unlimited calls, text and data in the UK. Selected stories from The Daily Dust Campaign Watch continues during the election. Why 1000mph? Because it’s there. We’re cops… Foursquare cops. Ageing Tiger, Crouching Postman. Science is grounded in ash cloud chaos. TPN Rock SXSW 2010 Retrospective #4 .

Where I’ve been this week

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All About Symbian Monster review on the Nokia 5230, Nokia’s entry level touchscreen smartphone. Why we need mobile advertising to work as soon as possible. Ovi Store Goes from 3 star to 5 star experience, and more Open source WordPress Client for Nokia S60 reviewed. Real life stories in the mobile world that could have been April Fool’s. Selected stories from The Daily Dust Does the BBC iPlayer allow Time Travel? A curry a day to keep the Doctor away. What if YouTube closed down for the night? The BBC F1 Drinking Game. The wonders of the effin Solar System.

Picked up by the Nationals

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The Daily Dust, the “good news newspaper” Kevin Dixie and I have been working on in the background had a good 2009, and it continues to grow in the new year. The promise of a quick read newspaper (naturally online) with just good news, no war, famine, death, destruction or being run over by cows seems to be popular with readers in the UK (and beyond). It might not have been picked up by the Web 2.0 geekerati, but it’s making small waves in its own special way and on the radar of many. The coverage of Chris Evans new

Don’t Make The Next Twitter, Make The First Wonderbra

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Digital Media Wire is carrying an interesting analysis on Twitter and what other entrepreneurs could learn from the micro-blogging service (and I’ll present this as a counterpoint to The Sunday Times). They’re all very good points, and a quick search for any ‘new web thing’ and ‘lessons from said web thing’ will bring up a lot of articles like this. What’s important is not just to take on these lessons, but take on these lessons, expand on them, and do something else. One of the rules of thumb I have when doing links to other news stories on All About