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Twitter Gives Better Results Than Google?
May 19, 2009
Can Twitter ever be better than Google? Well perhaps in the future we might get a definitive answer to that question; however I thought I’d write about a recent situation where I found that Twitter gave me a better result when looking for an answer than the mighty Google did! Especially given I was originally I was anything but an advocate of Twitter, in fact a couple of years ago when I started this blog I was a big skeptic and did question of what is the point of Twitter?
First of all, I’m not comparing Twitter’s in-built searching capability of tweets with that of Google’s searching of webpages – I’m sure Google is still the finest indexer of information out there and if there is an answer to what you’re looking for, I believe it can get you to it more efficiently than other search engines, be it Yahoo, MSN/Live, Ask Jeeves or the recently released Wolfram Alpha.
Continue reading »Gadget Show Live Roundup
April 25, 2009
First of all, I have to say that I think it’s great that Channel 5 TV programme, The Gadget Show has such a following and large number of viewers that a Gadget Show Live event like this was firstly planned and then very quickly sold out by the fans of the show – I think that says a lot about a large of people in the UK being quite tech-savvy and enjoying all types of gadgets that are out there.
This was first event that I’d attended of it’s type on behalf of Zath and was quite excited to see what was on show to the visitors of this event after seeing so many great shows on TV that take place in America, Japan etc.
Continue reading »How To Improve Your Online Communication
April 5, 2009
Anyone these days can claim their own slice of internet territory, and be the authority figure of that virtual piece of land. No doubt many people reading this are either webmasters, admins, forum moderators, bloggers in their respective niches. Being a good authority figure on the web requires many talents, particularly when it comes to networking with partners, communicating with readerships and developing a community.
The grounds of this is obviously language, yet unaware to most, online communication is by nature destructive and problematic – destined to cause confusion. It’s embedded in the linguistic construction of online communicating and worth talking about if we are to become better authority figures within our community.
Continue reading »A Zath Christmas!
December 7, 2008
Well I think it’s fair to say that the festive season has well and truly arrived here at Zath HQ – hopefully you’ll have noticed that we’ve got our LED Christmas tree and decorations put up in our logo at the top of the page.
Watch out in the coming weeks for special Christmas Zath competition coming your way – more news on that as soon as I get things finalised!
What added to the Christmas atmosphere even more was that last Thursday was the first time in years that they’d been enough snow to prevent us getting to work to our day-jobs – so I used the ’snow day’ to get a few things done round the house and also got some work here on the website.
Continue reading »Gaj-It.com – Happy Birthday!
December 5, 2008
The UK gadget site, Gaj-It.com is celebrating the fact that it’s now been going for two years – quite an accomplishment for any blogging website – well done guys! I first became aware of them after I met them at the LG Secret launch event and have been a fan of their’s ever since.
If you’ve not seen their UK Gadget site, which has recently had a design makeover, then be sure to take look!
Continue reading »Wordpress Gravatars For Comments
October 28, 2008
Have you noticed how some of the people who leave comments here on the Zath tech news blog have avatar image/pictures next to their comments, do you want one for yourself when commenting on this and other blogs?
All you need to do is head over to the Gravatar website and register your email address with them that you’ll be using to comment with and upload the picture that to represent your comments, all this can be done within a couple of minuntes!
Continue reading »Twitter Clients & Applications
October 21, 2008
I thought I’d give a little update as to how I’ve been using Twitter and what I currently think to it given my initial Twitter scepticism for the service when I first started blogging over 18 months ago – how times have changed, how those archives can come back to haunt you! 
If you’ve been following Zath on Twitter for the past few weeks you’ll already know that I tend to go through days of several Twitter updates to some where I may only reply to other people’s Twitter – essentially using it as a chat or IM service. Either way, I’m finding that the Twitter community is a great one to be a part of and have found people answering questions that I’ve Twittered even though we may not have chatted before.
Continue reading »Write For Zath?
October 17, 2008
Would you be interested in having the opporatunity to write for Zath?
We’re an established UK Tech Blog that’s been running for over 2 years and now gets over 2500 visitors a day to the site. These figures are increasing month on month, so we’re now looking to recruit some more talented writers onto the Zath team so that we can better cover news and reviews of the latest in technology, hi-tech gadgets and gaming for our readers.
Have you ever considered writing for a website such as Zath? Have you got a interest in the topics that Zath covers? Can you write original content to a good standard about these things that you like?
Continue reading »Gadget Competitions – 11/10/08
October 11, 2008
You may remember that I highlighted a gadget competition over at Coolest Gadgets a while back, well Zath is once again one of the nominated Coolest Gadgets of the Week with our recent gadget post about a Mini Catamaran. Not only can you vote for you favourite of the nominated gadgets from a variety of gadget and tech websites, but you can also stand a chance of winning $100 for yourself by voting and then leaving a comment.
Continue reading »Math of Zath – August 2008
October 7, 2008
Admittedly I’ve left this August round-up a little late, so I’ll keep it pretty short and hopefully you’ll find something you missed the first time round!
Here’s what was big in August according to 51,000 people who visited Zath in that month – which again was up on the previous month, around 25% in fact, so that was rather nice growth, hopefully that will continue, which would be great!
If you have missed some of these posts the first time round, be sure to subscribe to Zath so you don’t miss any of our new content!
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