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Twitter puts RSS on death row – can Topsy save it?

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Twitter says it will remove RSS and Atom support from its site on March 5 2013, completing a process started back in April 2011.

Social Media

How to generate RSS feeds for a Pinterest user & specific Pinterest Boards

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Generating an RSS feed for a Pinterest user's account is simple, but how do you create an RSS feed for a Pinterest user's boards?

Social Media

Google shuts its cloud image editor, Picnik, integrates it into Google+

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Google+ acquires Google Picnik's services as the cloud image editing application is shut down in Google's latest round of service closures.

Social Media

Google rolls out Google Reader update for Google+, includes export features as promised

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Google's Doodle wasn't the only treat (or trick, depending on your point of view) that Google had ready for Halloween, having rolled out its overhaul of Google Reader late on October 31.

Web

Google kills + (the operator not Google+)

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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In a change to its search engine this week Google no longer recognises the + operator included in search terms (and this is a bit of a big deal).

Social Media

The frustrating guide to creating Google+ profile and search RSS feeds

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Google+ doesn't supply RSS feeds for user posts it is possible to create Google+ search and profile RSS feeds. Although it's not perfect.

Social Media

If Facebook wanted us to be scared of Google, why didn’t they just show us this?

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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You might not know it but Google has been building a personal index of your social networking connections that is so detailed it even knows who your friends are friends with.

Brains Byte Back

We explore how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. If you want to be better prepared for the new information age, have a healthier relationship with technology, and get more out of life using top technology and psychology hacks, this is the podcast for you! Every other Friday we bring you interviews with leading experts in the fields of technology and psychology combined, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of top tech companies.

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It is the start of 2022, and with every new year comes the loft ambitions of new year’s resolutions.

If one of your resolutions is to spend less time on your phone, or looking at screens, then you are in the right place, because in this episode we will look at digital detoxes and how you can implement them.

To do this, we are speaking with Andrew Selepak, a Social Media Professor at the University of Florida.

In this episode we discuss what a digital detox is and what technology it usually involves, how a digital detox can be realistically implemented without it negatively impacting our work, or even social connections, and the parallels between digital detoxes and food diets.

Selepak shares why going cold turkey with a digital detox is unlikely to be successful, why vacations are a good setting to implement a partial digital detox, and why turning off notifications and removing social media apps is the best way to start a detox.

He also explains why our use of technology shouldn’t be seen necessarily as an addiction, like a drug, but a tool that needs to be the correct way.

Additionally Selepak shares how a non-self imposed detox from his phone during a trip in Ireland taught him the importance of disconnecting, and how many of us fall into the trap of taking numerous pictures on holiday, with the ambition of posting on social media, instead of experiencing the trip in the present moment.

And finally, we discuss the role meditation can play to help limit our time with technology.