Earlier this month, the BitchBuzz team took a break from running around Fashion Week to pop into a lovely Xbox event, where they showed us their latest addition to the Xbox Family – the Xbox Natal.While this may sound like some sort of tool used by an obstetrician or a new sort of Pre-Natal vitamin, it’s not, and has absolutely nothing to do with babies. (So far, anyway.)
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04 Mar 2010 17:00 GMT
Has Web 2.0 failed?It's supposed to be the break-through moment, when the web frees us of our chains and allows children to hold hands across the world and sing songs—at least virtually. More people are online than ever: Facebook is the single biggest time suck out there for people with computers and more sign up for Twitter every day. You can sit down to your keyboard and have the world at your fingertips.
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25 Feb 2010 10:00 GMT
How much has the internet and communication technology really helped human rights? From the first “Twitter revolution” in Moldova to the Youtube videos of Burmese monks marching against their military leaders, the internet has been heralded as a gateway to information we’d never have had access to otherwise. But how much does it actually help the victims of human rights abuses?
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24 Feb 2010 11:44 GMT
Somehow a weird collision of events sparked a realisation for me - or really it was a reaffirmation, I suppose.When you add together the narrow escape from tragedy dramatised in Lone Sherfing's An Education, the inescapable tragedy that was the University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting and the head-scratching success story of mixmaster/plagiarist Helene Hegemann - "There’s no such thing as originality anyway, there’s only authenticity" - with the news that social media supp...
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18 Feb 2010 10:00 GMT
Sure, I can understand that the estimated 300 million people on Facebook are going to create a hubbub that makes it increasingly difficult to be heard and I'm not going to point fingers at number 299 millionth person (when it was really the 718,543rd one anyway, I'm looking at you, Edith). Nonetheless, the strains of this enormous size have become apparent.
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04 Feb 2010 10:00 GMT
As we mentioned last year, Xbox Reverb is a seriously cool way for fans to see their favorite artists perform in small, more intimate venues. Essentially, Xbox Reverb gigs are a bit DIY, as fans have the chance to interact with their favourite bands and influence all aspects of the gig from DJ-ing on the night, from designing the gig’s poster and to selecting tracks ...
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02 Feb 2010 14:38 GMT
I’ve never really understood the fascination with really big, fancy, LCD-HD-Plasma-whatever TVs.Sure, they look really nice when you’re walking through the TV section of Currys or Target, but I never really understood why people would spend the money on a 42” LCD TV, when surely you could just buy a smaller, cheaper flatscreen TV and be just as satisfied.
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29 Jan 2010 15:00 GMT
As someone who always felt life would be much better if one could carry around a few hundred books at the same time, I am quite enthusiastic about the new Apple iPad. While eBook readers have been around a while and do a decent job of letting readers lug around an excessive amount of books, I could never justify another electronic device just to have a bunch of books on myself at all times.
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28 Jan 2010 13:00 GMT
Yeah, everyone was excited about the unveiling of the new Apple tablet computer. They braced themselves for the inevitable Twitter crash (which didn't seem to happen after all). Geeks everywhere were poised to trumpet or decry the new product depending upon where they positioned themselves along the Steve-Jobs-Messiah-or-Huckster continuum. But the one thing that seemed to be overlooked was the impac...
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28 Jan 2010 00:00 GMT
There is something about eBay that scares me. It scares me in the same way giant thrift stores scare me: I never know where anything is, and I never know how to find it. Yes, I understand that you can, like, search for things and that there are categories, but whenever anyone says, “Look on eBay.” I suddenly become very overwhelmed.
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26 Jan 2010 17:30 GMT