stevefarnworth's Feed http://expndr.com This is an example RSS feed en-gb Copyright (C) 2009 mywebsite.com Twitter OAuth Today's the day where Twitter shuts off its Basic Authentication infrastructure and requires applications to access user data using the more secure OA... 708 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a9vylm The Open equipment stats Statistics from The Open Championship provided by TaylorMade (# of players);

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Golfing Played golf this morning, shot well into the 100's but was sort of expecting that as I've somehow managed to not get a round in yet this season.
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World Cup failing to impress Let's leave the ridiculous vuvuzelas out of this (tradition? Who cares, it's the *World* Cup, not the *South Africa* Cup. It has to be enjoyable on a ... 1217 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/adax41 Free mini-sessions at Develop Conference Develop will be offering a series of 30-minute free "mini-sessions" at their Develop Conference in Brighton next month (14th and 15th July) to help pr... 1286 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/aic4up Alternative BA Strike PR idea Right, I've made my feelings clear on the BA strike; I don't like it, so I thought I'd offer a half-baked solution to the problem.

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Well Hung Parliament Offering my 0.02 here;

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My views on Steve Job's views on Flash Steve Jobs has just released an open letter explaining his motivations behind leaving Fl... 1618 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a6bmr9 iPhone and the closed ecosystem Right, another day and another rant:

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Social Media Conference Checklist Here are the things that are said at every social media conference, use it as a sort of bingo card;

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Google Buzz So the web is currently going into meltdown over Google's social layer on top of Gmail.
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Free Ad Spot! The big, horizontal, banner at the bottom of RandomlyAccessed has gone kaput, which means we're now open to offering a free advertising spot to anyone... 1014 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/axzm33 Drop IE6? Depends. Google has sent designers into a tizzy today by announcing that from March 1st, they're going to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6 in Docs and Sites... 1577 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ai22pm Flight Control coming to the iPad Firemint, the company behind the popular iPhone and iPod games Real Racing and Flight Control, has just announced that they're already planning on bri... 1145 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a1u7in PR wording FAIL An (I thought) hilarious comment from a press release during the night regarding a new type of software that allows parents to "define cryptic abbrevi... 701 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a4a0ci Celebrity Big Brother Well, that time of the year has come around again where a bunch of washed-up celebs perform a rather worrying portrayal of themselves in front of seve... 1334 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/agmaju Talking of Expndr... I've been working pretty solidly on the first "proper" version of Expndr over the past few weeks (in between posting a lot of news on RandomlyAccessed... 925 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ap1nbd SEO is dying It was reasonably funny to see the SEO industry clamouring at anything to try and prove Robert Scoble wrong last night about the death of SEO, and whi... 884 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ake89t The last Bah Humbug before Xmas Well, we're nearing Christmas day, and to keep myself in the festive mood from tomorrow onwards, I shall have a bit of a moan now :)

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Pathetic BA Industrial Action Another rant for the day here;

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Newspapers and the agenda Having studied politics a few years ago, we were taught to investigate bias in the mainstream media, with The Times coming out as the closest-to-the-m... 1112 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ad49zn A note about picoprojectors I love picoprojectors, since I reviewed one at this time last year I've loved the concept of a tiny projector being able to throw an enjoyable-quality... 431 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/aiya8s 2010 and Android Something I was writing for RandomlyAccessed, but couldn't quite find the right voice for it over there, RE: Android.

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Failing AJAX and JS for users Yeah, I make sure that my AJAX effects work without Javascript enabled (Ruby on Rails is great for this), but for everything else where JS is more of ... 340 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/acyon3 Microsoft took a wrong turn on IE8 So, I recently went from my safe home using Internet Explorer 7 and moved up to Microsoft's recommended IE8 (after some gentle prodding from a Faceboo... 1037 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a90awt The Digital Economy Bill is scary Right, let's get to it. Because of people who illegally download music and films for free, the rest of us might be saddled with legislation that could... 918 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ascifw Button to McLaren Oooh, so it's finally been announced after weeks of speculation; Button is moving to McLaren for next season, to be paired with Lewis Hamilton.
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Seesmic for Windows I know I've been going on about for quite a few tweets already this morning but bear with me.

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A Tide is Turning Just been mulling over some thoughts for a post on RA over the weekend...

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Accel Partners has a good day Well, things have been heating up on RA over the past couple of hours, first we had news that EA had bought social gaming company Playfish for $270m i... 503 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ar7ooe Nonexistant emails Something that I hate about email clients is that some of them blatantly lie about how many unread emails you have. Their notification systems (lookin... 690 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ar6o58 Twitter and OAuth Twitter has been experiencing a bit of hacking over the past few days, apparently as a result of dodgy applications keeping users' tokens on file and ... 1309 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ai8hms Longtail Lists Twitter's List feature has been rolled out to at least 25% of their userbase, and is being enabled for users all of the time (so go check!), and this ... 715 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/aj13bt Is Apple losing cash on the new iMac? I've just read an article that lays out some pretty interesting evidence that the margins for the new 27"... 655 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/altfvg Installing Rails plugins using GitHub Well, it appears that there are a lot of people using GitHub for version control nowadays, however, that means that the easy way of installing plugins... 923 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a1mf9o Implementing Ideas As I have been exceptionally busy this week doing non-online things, it has been hard to keep working on my projects like Expndr, the next version of ... 989 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a2ny9j South by Southwest London When I tweeted just a minute ago about wanting to set up a SxSW-type event in the UK I was half-joking and half-deadly-serious.

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Jenson Button is World Champion! Jenson Button has won the 2009 Formula 1 Driver's World Championship at the Brazilian Grand Prix with a fantastic drive that pulled him up from 14th o... 515 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/aa1a6x Rolling Over Just thought I'd let you know, at some point next week we'll be pulling the open-alpha of Expndr, as we've generated some really good data on what the... 645 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/am417h Touchscreen Laptops One of Windows 7's most hyped features is that of increased touch support as well as multitouch, but that has left me wondering, how many people were ... 805 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ay5s2a Mandy on Postal Strikes People have their opinions of Lord Mandelson, and I do think that posties often get a raw deal and are generally nice, hard working people. However... 642 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a9xbnh Why Pay-To-Pitch is Wrong This was originally posted here, on the subject of start... 1292 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a84a65 What I use daily As was pointed out to me by @jrgibson1, I review a lot of products in my line of work, but I do have a set of gear that is my own that I use day-in-da... 1549 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/awka7p TWiST Episode 19 If you're interested in the online space, then you may well have heard of This Week in Startups which is a weekly vidcast which is streamed live every... 911 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/az8zmj Evening Standard set free The London Evening Standard is to become a freesheet later this month, filling void left by the previously popular free paper in the capital.
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All these iPhones So, Vodafone has just confirmed that they will be offering the iPhone in the UK, starting early next year (two years behind O2 and a month or two afte... 790 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ahgsf5 Cheaper White MacBooks? Will we be seeing cheaper White MacBooks hitting the market in the next few weeks? Apple has often shy-ed away from entering the low-end with its prod... 811 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a0kmo5 #F1 Integrity Am I the only one who thinks that all of these scandals to hit Formula One only make the sport more interesting?

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TechHub in London If you've been reading TechCrunch UK, you'll know that there is currently a plan to launch a coworking space focused on startup companies in London's ... 401 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/agxgq4 Pathetic Environmentalists The stupid women who have taken manure to Jeremy Clarkson's house are absolutely pathetic.

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Server Issue Sorry about today's downtime people, there was a very unusual gremlin on our server, so the hosting company decided it was best to take their time and... 603 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/apz787 RacePro 360 I love playing racing simulators, which is why I was excited to see the makers of the well-respected sim; GTR making a gaming for the Xbox 360.
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Attacking Twestival Hopefully you wont have come across a certain article online which does nothing but lay into the charitable endeavour; "Twestival".

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TechCrunch editor likes Expndr! Well, I was watching the livestream of This Week in Startups, the weekly entrepreneurial vidcast hosted by Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs Inc. an... 782 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a5swsd Audiobooks I am now a fan of audiobooks.

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Jacked up on caffeine Yep, one of those days where I intend to work for 16 hours and get a heck of a lot done.

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Refusing Student Loans? Have you read the ridiculous story that one of the proposed ways of making sure that university is fully inclusive is to refuse middle-class students ... 974 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/aznz20 Twitter Trends failing users? Was originally going to write this on RandomlyAccessed, but couldn't get it work well over there, so will be posting my personal thoughts here.... 1359 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/asw459 Ahead of Spa GP Looks like the colder temperatures and faster track speed will favour Red Bull over Brawn in this one, but it looks like its anyones guess as to which... 1096 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/apxrgc Ruby on Rails I'm currently in the middle of learning how to code in Ruby on Rails (the language that Digg and Twitter are written in), and I'm actually getting som... 570 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/axih1x @mashable Site Problems GRR!

Mashable, the social media news site officially hates me. Whenever I click on a link (bearing in mind other users RT them without ... 744 characters remaining.
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Coworking Space An idea I've been mulling in my head for a while now is that of a coworking space somewhere (more than likely London), providing desks, closed rooms, ... 282 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/aru3rm Battle of the URL shorteners I've finally made the call and gone back to using Bit.ly after an extended stint with Su.pr

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Zune HD on Mac I can see Microsoft eventually offering support for Macs, but I don't see it happening before the launch of Windows 7.

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Slim PS3 Well, I was wavering on this one. On the one hand, Sony had to make the PS3 a more interesting proposition, on the other, I could see them being stubb... 395 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ahln7r tr.im is going crazy The tr.im saga continues. They've decided to turn the site over to the community and make it open-source.

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Gamescom this week Gamescom is coming this week, and tomorrow could even see the announcement of a massive PS3 price-cut, or the slim model we've been expecting, so this... 597 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/agnxmx My Fantasy Team for 09/10 This is my starting 11 for The Sun's Fantasy Football competition for this season. Came in a day late, but it's all a bit of fun!

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Interesting week This week has been interesting. My birthday came and went, got some more features planned out for the site (both content and coded) and have been doin... 645 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/astgwj Apple Tablet: Yes or No? Do you reckon we will be seeing an Apple Tablet in September?

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Tr.im shutting down Ok, I'm saddened that Nambu felt the need to shut down their URL shortening service, tr.im. Really I am, I don't like seeing companies hit the deadpoo... 649 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ah55jr Facebook/FriendFeed I've covered the "Facebook buys FriendFeed" story on RA in depth, but what do I think of it?

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Twitter gets hit with DDoS Attack So Twitter just got hit with a DDoS (denial-of-service) attack, which left the service unusable for a large part of the past 3 hours or so.
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HTC Hero Poem (Late) There once was a phone called Hero,
Who's limitations did equal zero,
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I want boxed software sometimes Cloud-shmoud.

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Productive Day Had a really productive day so far today.

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Really no news? Perhaps I should say "nothings happening today" more often, as little over half an hour after tweeting that, Microsoft and Yahoo announced their deal.... 696 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ahkech Spotify iPhone App The web's been abuzz with word that Spotify has submitted its iPhone app to Apple for approval.

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Dell Studio 15 I thought I'd post some impressions on the Dell Studio 15 on here, as these are more out of the air comments, rather than a pukka review for RandomlyA... 1369 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ath958 Actual Progress That's right, it's 11pm, and some progress has finally been made on a neat new feature for RandomlyAccessed.

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Coders Block I've spent the majority of the day sat at my desk on the laptop, but have managed to achieve pretty much nothing.

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Back on Track Well, that was an interesting few days, had some fun and crammed in as much as possible which was great, but tiring.

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Lots of Content I've been producing a heck of a lot of content over the past few weeks, and it appears to be having a positive effect on the visitor numbers to http:/... 467 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ask431 Moar Please RandomlyAccessed has received a pretty good surge of hits in the past few days, but we need more!

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Slightly Hectic Been doing a fair bit this week with regards to content on RandomlyAccessed, we've added nearly 100 posts since last Saturday, and we're getting day-o... 595 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a7nntt RandomlyAccessed guest spots open That's right, we're looking for people to join us on RandomlyAccessed and post some guest posts on anything related to technology.

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Massively hot and tired Have spent the majority of the past two weeks moving out of my place in London, which in this heat, has been a heck of a mission, but I'm now on first... 552 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a2djhl New Week Well, we've started another week, and my new laptop is now in it's delivery phase, so could be here in a few days!

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Mobile Broadband Well, I'm posting this Expndr comment using the wonders of 3G Mobile Broadband!

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What's Going Down Well, it's been a pretty interesting week all-round.

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Schumacher revealed as The Stig Well, that was an eventful start to the new series, not only was it one of best put together shows of Top Gear, but it was "revealed" that The Stig is... 709 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/a4nltg Playing with #Android Well, I spent much of yesterday trying to get to grips with Android app development, and where did I get to? "Hello, World!"

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Site Downtime As an editor and webmaster, I sometimes need to put content on hold and see to the back-end side of things, so the best thing to do is to take the sit... 647 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/arlj1u EU forces MS to drop IE from Win7 Sorry for all of the acronyms in the title, but this is a Twitter comment :)

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Sony Kicks Butt at E3! Sony's E3 keynote has just wrapped up, and what can I say? It totally blew me away.

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Sony E3 Keynote Nearly Here! Yesterday's Microsoft keynote, whilst very exciting, has left us with a slight console hardware craving which as Nintendo has only just shown, can onl... 524 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/aiaspf MSFT E3 Keynote Have just finished watching the Microsoft E3 Keynote, and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed.

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Britain has got talent Well, that was a pretty tight contest, but my fav. act of the night came out on top, Diversity.

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Should Twitter block certain hashtags? With the backlash to #spymaster beginning to gather pace (I'm a player myself, but have yet to see a tweet from it appear in my stream), there seems t... 629 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/ab7jqd RandomlyAccessed Redesign We're currently in the process of redesigning RandomlyAccessed, and we want your input!

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Google Wave Well, it seems we have a new way of communicating with each other from those mighty folks at Google.

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Lies, Damn Lies and Polls I'm sorry, look at these ridiculous statistics from OnePoll on what it costs parents in a child's 18th year. Never have I seen so much tripe in... 961 characters remaining. http://expndr.com/alqx6x Dear Mr Darling... An email I just got:

"Dear Mr. Darling,

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