The surprising thing about BlackBerry outages
The surprising thing, to me at the least, whenever there’s a huge story all over the technology pages of the BBC or the Guardian about the BlackBerry Messenger/email services being down for huge periods of time, is that people are surprised at this. The internet has flourished and works so very well because it is [...]
Facebook and why your organization should be ignoring it
There’s a huge amount of talk out there about how best to use Facebook as an organization. How you can generate massive amounts of publicity and interest, capture new users and visitors, and maximize engagement. All those silken terms that sales and marketing people love to liberally spray all over their presentations. Well, this is [...]
TV on a budget – rolling your own RTMP
So, having moved on from my work at Insanity Radio attempting to build a professional-quality radio station, I’m now going into building a professional quality TV station from the ground up. Trouble is, there is literally no budget (yet, at least), but we wanted to cover events during the Fresher’s Week here at Royal Holloway. [...]