As the release date for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) approaches so does Microsoft’s eagerness to gain support from the programming community to provide applications for their device. We all know from the past that Microsoft has been very keen for finding student programming talent. From the launch of XNA to the recent Design Expo 2010. If you are a student then there are many benefits for building apps... 

I’m not usually one to complain about the various ways people use language. When venturing into the realm of linguistics I am wholly relativist. I fully understand that language is in a constant state of flux, forming around the way we live our lives, largely dependent on the activities of our era and most importantly integral to who you are – unique. Over the last couple of months a single acronym... 

Speculations have been on Twitter for the last few days but finally Mr Brown has visited the palace and called for dissolution of parliament. The election race begins which has given us the opportunity to choose change. Conservatives claim they will be change (not that ‘change’ means much. The change in my pocket is cheap for instance…), Labour say that we are on the road to recovery (I don’t... 

To get the most from Twitter it is important to manage your Twitter account. This may not only help increase your amount of followers but will also connect you with a variety of likeminded people. Below I have written a few tips which should help improve your tweeting experience. Choose a place to follow people from Since the introduction of lists attempting to follow likeminded people has become much... 

As some of you will know there are Twitter follow limits. The limits which Twitter has imposed are: 1000 updated per day 250 direct messages a day 150 API requests a day Follow limits The purpose of this blog post is for some therapeutic reassurance. I suspected the event would happen for a little while; I have reached my follow limit. It’s particularly annoying for me because I do not use Twitter... 

A new feature on Twitter has taken the network by storm and has redefined what it means to be followed or to be re-tweeted. Twitter announced their list feature a couple of days ago and yesterday I got to use the feature for myself. At first I was confused to what a Twitter list meant. How would lists affect the way Twitter is used? A Twitter list in essence is another simple but powerful concept... 

The news has recently been inundated with reports from the new social networking website on the block, Twitter. George Orwell spoke of how it is always better to write a simple sentence in the media. Perhaps this is why Twitter has taken off so well with the public?   Twitter is quite simply a ludicrously easy social networking device to use. Due to this simplicity the scale of use for this social...