Webism Today

Habitat, the thinking man’s Ikea, was at the receiving end of a minor twitter backlash this week. They created a Twitter account a few weeks ago and began Tweeting their offers. After a few tweets, for some misguided reason they thought that putting popular trending hashtags at the beginning of their tweet would be a [...]

ReadWriteWeb reported yesterday that the NewsFeed application, which allowed you to export your Facebook NewsFeed in RSS and publish it pubilcally, has been shut down down by Facebook. A Facebook software engineer, Ari Steinberg commented that “We’re certainly not opposed to enabling you to export your own content (in fact, we’re always trying to work [...]

Don’t believe Apple’s ads. They are not intended to be statements of fact, merely entertaining tales of iPhone 3Gs performing twice as their predecessors. Or so Apple claims. If you’re not up to speed on this story, we’re talking about William Gillis, a unhappy iPhone customer who has filed a lawsuit over claims by Apple [...]

Despite the doom and gloom in the economic world, and our money becoming increasingly tight, we still have our heads screwed on when it comes down to shopping with a conscience. Research published earlier this month suggests that ethics are increasingly trumping price when we’re deciding where to shop and what to shop for, even [...]

According to the most recent statistics, the UK boasts 4.2 million CCTV cameras – that is one for every 14 people in the country. The small island has so many cameras that the total number of cameras in the UK counts for 20% of all the cameras in the world. With so many cameras poised [...]

4,000 cigarette vending machines have been kitted out with age verification technology in Osaka, Japan. The facial recognition software installed into the machines has the ability to detect whether cigarette purchases are of legal smoking age. It’s designed to scan customers’ faces for signs of wrinkles, sagging skin and other signs of age. Facial characteristics [...]