Compiled by John Collins
The demographics of Facebook
VIEW:It may have launched to college students just a few short years ago but now the average age of Facebook users is 38 with 61 per cent of its users 35 or older. The team at Flowtown, a social media marketing company, have created a fascinating info-graphic that shows the demographics of the most popular social networking sites.
http://bit.ly/dziRxQ
CameraBag app on your iPhone
INSTALL:Rather than moaning about the quality of the iPhone camera, and let's face it the iPhone 4.0 camera still isn't great, do something about it with CameraBag, a €1.59 app that provides a range of filters for your shots. Simply open an existing picture in Nervecenter's app and you can apply filters such as Magazine, Cinema, Instant or Mono to give it a unique look.
nervecenter.com/camerabag
Your beer keg with your iPad
CONTROL:Love hacking? Love beer? Love the iPad? These four engineers at directory site Yelp clearly do and have created a beer keg and fridge set-up that is controlled by RFID tags and an iPad. How long before someone launches it commercially for the geek who has everything?
http://bit.ly/cRDPZ1
Tom Foremski's view on the battle between HP and Oracle
READ:Much has been written about this week's outbreak of hostilities between tech giants HP and Oracle. Few though are as well qualified to comment as long- term Silicon Valley watcher Tom Foremski, who in this blog post suggests the hiring of Mark Hurd (above) is a prelude to an Oracle bid for HP – something he has been predicting for a while. http://bit.ly/d7xoy4
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