Twitter ends SMS updates – not the smartest move?

With an email – and this blog post – Twitter ended the outbound delivery of SMS updates, inbound updates are still OK, but people are a bit peeved at the change.

I’m not a huge SMS receiver of messages, but I do update via SMS and I can’t help thinking that it might have been a smarter decision to cut the free service, but at the same point enable a paid model that would allow SMS-junkies to continue getting their regular fix of 140 character goodness. It would have been EVEN SMARTER to at least ask peoples opinions before the big switch off.

On top of the fail-whale and system instabilities over recent months, this cannot be seen as a positive move.

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Terminal 5 fights back

British Airways and Terminal 5 are fighting back after their initial problems.

Digital Nomads from Dell

Interesting new site from Dell – especially for Digital Nomads

Live Search goes to Beijing

Live Search is doing some amazing things with its home page in the US – adding changing background to the search homepage is really generating some bizz around the net. This is todays superb image:

Showing Weber-Gale and the ubiquitous Phelps after the 4 x 100m freestyle relay Gold Medal victory. Check it out for your self at the US Live Search site – or on the Chinese Live Search site (where they have their own imagery).

I can’t wait until they roll this out in the UK and beyond, this kind of work could make Live Search a destination URL.

Ungracious sod!

Tom Daley : The hype has been huge, but it’s not right when your partner disses you!

I learnt to do IT on one of these…

You can still buy the old IBM buckling spring keyboards – WANT ONE!

FabricLive 41 – Mixed by Simian Mobile Disco

I used to make and listen to a lot of DJ mixes, but since I hung up my traveling headphones and retired to the obscurity of mixing at home, I also stopped listening to many other DJ’s work. I still keep my eye out for anything that looks interesting and have heard some great stuff this year from Burial, Tom Neville and a few others.

Today sees the release of the latest installment in the FabricLive series – mixed by the UK’s very own Simian Mobile Disco – and a handsome set it is too, full of top class glitchy and edgy dance music.

Unlike a lot of mix CD’s around, it isn’t crammed full of the latest radio friendly ‘choons’, but SMD have managed to dig through the crates and pull out some awesome electronic classics – Paul Woolfords – Erotic Discourse and the massive Flash by Green Velvet are in the mix, along with some odd-ball early 80’s pop from The Walker Brothers (Night Flights).

There are some great new cuts in the mix as well – the Serge Santiago remix of Blind by Hercules Love Affair and the fantastic Deadmau5 vs Jelo track ‘The Reward is Cheese’ which arrives at the end of the mid section of the CD, which is just a stupendous passage of the mix.

The whole things hangs together really well – either as a mix to settle down and listen to or something to be pumped up louder in the car or on the MP3 player – I’m loving it more every time I listen, and its inspiring me to get my headphones back off the shelf and put together a new mix, expect that this week.

Barack is definitely on a roll…

If this doesn’t make him the next president – I don’t know what will… (via)

I scored 42 – how many can you get?

How many of the 100 most common English words can you guess? (from)

Paris Hilton is now my new hero(ine)

“My name is Paris Hilton, and I approve this message because it’s like, totally, hot.”