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Current.com = Digg + TV [WP Plugin Hack Included]

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Social News Aggregation is big business – take a look at Digg, arguably one of the most popular sites on the internet & all powered by user-submitted content.

Well I’m a big fan of social websites, and news aggregators… and I have recently found a new(ish) site that I have a feeling may definitely be the way forward.

Current.com is a social news sharing site with a difference – it has it’s own TV channel (in the UK, Sky channel 183 and Virgin channel 155). It’s the perfect menagerie of services… think Digg, but televised. This helps fuel submissions to the site, as if you comment or submit material, there’s a chance your content may end up featuring on TV making you a pseudo celebrity in the process.

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22.05.2009 Tech View Comments

Streamy Revamps & Leaves Beta

Friday, May 8th, 2009

For a long time I’ve been looking for a website that houses absolutely everything I look for in a personalised start page… and for as long as I can remember, I’ve had to settle for iGoogle. Don’t get me wrong – Google’s start page is absolutely stellar, and I can almost absolutely everything from feed reading, to checking Facebook, updating Twitter and so on.

However for a fair while I had also been eyeing up a contender for it’s replacement in the form of Streamy. You may remember the site from my previous review of the site that had a fair bit of attention.

Anyway it’s been a fair while since I’d used the service, and I decided to check it out again, and discovered that the devs had revamped the site’s look and functionality. After having a chat with site co-founder Jonathan Gray, I found out that they had “quietly launched” out of beta, and hadn’t yet advertised the fact. This is great news, as I highly recommend the site to anyone – and here’s why.
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08.05.2009 Tech View Comments

Article-writing goodness

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

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As some of you may know, I’ve recently started writing game reviews and news for GeeksofDoom.com under the psuedonym Keyser Söze - my first being the Grand Theft Auto IV review I blogged about last time.

I have to say I’m enjoying getting my mind working in the process – its elating to actually have to think, and especially about something I genuinely enjoy. :)

Anyway I thought I’d post and give you the skinny on some more GoD goodness that I’ve done recently…

My first bit this week was just a little press release given to me by GoD editor Eve of Doom aka Empress Eve, detailing the news that GTA IV had broken 3 guinness world records… and that story also got Dugg, and became stupidly popular… :) Thats literally the first time anything I’ve actually written has been dugg properly… and at the time of writing its on 2194 diggs… and I was advised yesterday the story hit over 100,000 page views. Mental!

Anyway the next story posted this week by me is a preview of Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures… the game looks to be very good fun! So hopefully I’ll get a review done of it when it gets released. :)

The next review I have in the works is for Dark Sector on the Xbox 360, so I’ll let you know once that has been posted. :)

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15.05.2008 Gaming View Comments

Mario Galaxy – Overrated?

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

I’ve just read a Eurogamer review of Super Mario Galaxy, generously giving the game 10/10… which is encouraging for the Wii – Ninty pulling through once more (Cheers to Ninty fanboy Ricey for linkage ;) ).

However the review’s kinda left a stale taste in my mouth… and I’ve come to realise that what I read a while back on Digg is so true… Gaming reviews suck.

Super Mario Galaxy