Articles by Brendan
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Using Google Spreadsheets to scrape Twitter data
21 Jan 2010
Find out how to use Google Documents as a Twitter search engine, extracting tweets into a useful spreadsheet format. You’ll be able to see tweets that link to any URL as well as tweets containing any keyword you specify.
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Can search predict the future?
23 Dec 2009
Today, we often search for information about upcoming major events in our lives – both good and bad – before we experience them. Can analysis of keywords in search patterns help us predict the future?
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An open assault on the walled garden
21 Dec 2009
Mobile telcos charge us for the texts, minutes and megabytes we use. They buy our loyalty by heavily subsidising our increasingly expensive phones. And they’re terrified of becoming like the people who supply our electricity or gas. They’re terrified that one day they’ll be nothing but interchangeable providers of a commodity, irrelevant logos printed on [...]
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Are mobile apps here to stay?
17 Dec 2009
A few weeks ago a guest speaker came to our office to talk about mobile apps. His company produced a lot of them, for pretty big brands. He knew his stuff: the team here was both impressed and engaged.
But an exchange during the following Q&A session stuck in my mind later. One of our directors [...]