There’s much talk on the superinterwebs about the future of Facebook. What I hadn’t thought about before was how big they are for photo sharing. Facebook say 60 million photos are added each week which makes them bigger than Yahoo/Flickr and MySpace/Photobucket. My money’s on Google picking them up to get into the social network market properly (Orkut? Saywhat?) which should really give MySpace a much needed kicking.
On the off chance that anyone actually reads this and is looking for work in the Web Communications field, there’s a job currently being advertised at Edge Hill for Web Communications Project Manager. Deadline is 25th May so get your skates on. More details on the Web Services blog.
It’s a few years old, but I’ve never seen the video before today. Pure 80s pixel animation…
My life outside work is managed by Google Calendar. In fact, I’d prefer if my life in work was managed by Google Calendar as well because GroupWise calendar sucks. I have several different calendars to manage different types of event - Explorers, Birthdays, General etc - but only your primary calendar gets notifications. Until today that is. So imagine my excitement when an announcement came through in Google Reader saying that they’ve introduced SMS and email notifications on secondary and subscribed calendars!
So I logged on to take a look and couldn’t find anything. Went to the Google Calendar Group and started reading some threads but the instructions didn’t seem to work for me. Then I read this. I know I’ve been banging on about “Release Early, Release Often“, but come on, sort it out Google! And while you’re at it, please stop sending me day SMS notifications at 4:30am, and sort out synchronisation with mobile phones, and add to do lists, and…