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My Taptu for Android and iPhone to challenge Flipboard & eliminate “filter failure”

Taptu, the social media and technology company, is announcing the release of My Taptu, its new social news aggregator available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. Aimed directly at solving the problem of information overload (or what’s been called “filter failure”), My Taptu gives you instant access to the latest buzz on all [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted November 9, 2010 in mobile, social media | Tagged androd, flipboard, information overload, iphone, Mitch Lazar, mobile, my taptu, mytaptu, rss, social, taptu | Comments (2)

Are social networks creating a generation of techno addicts?

The short answer is no I do not believe so, otherwise I would not have set up @madeleinegrill’s twitter account for when she is older. Last week I was asked by Sky News to provide comment on the issue of “Techno addiction”, as a result of a report by Northampton University, where a study of 1,200 people carried [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted September 28, 2009 in social media | Tagged addicted to text, Amelia Torode, attention deficit, bbc, blackberry, blackberry flashing light, blackberry light, blackberry orphans, distraction, email light, email overload, facebook, guardian, information overload, Mark Stone, Nada Kakabadse, Northampton University, Outlook, overload, productivity, Professor Nada Kakabadse, Sigel press, Sigel report, sky, Sky News, Sky News TV, social distraction, social media, social media addicts, social media children, social media orphans, social network anxiety, social network research, Susan Bailey, techno addcicts, techno addiction, Techno Addicts: Life Style Through Technology, twitaholic, twitter, twitter addiction, xobni | Comments (4)