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OK, so @Dabr is down. Here’s why -

Posted by James Whatley on May 8, 2011. 17 comments.

UPDATE: We’re back! If you can’t get the site to load, use http://test2.dabr.co.uk [You may notice some small cosmetic changes as well as a couple of additional features; it’s thanks to @edent that we’re able to roll these out earlier than planned…

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Where else can you use @Dabr?

Posted by James Whatley on September 27, 2010. 7 comments.

This post is inspired by superstar @Dabr user @Supakitsune Last week, our keen eyes spotted this tweet – On the Nintendo DSi?! Amazing! Being an interested bunch, we asked for a twitpic and naturally, @Supakitsune obliged – Dual-screen @Dabr FTW! …

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Avoiding Twitter.com

Posted by David Carrington on August 26, 2010. 8 comments.

Employers and schools aren’t usually very keen on social networks – they like to block things like Twitter and Facebook to make sure you’re more productive. I disagree with this and think that some use of social networks can be beneficial in both …

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Dabr August updates

Posted by David Carrington on August 24, 2010. 10 comments.

Hi Dabr fans! Today a fairly major change was made to Dabr – all users not already using “Sign in with Twitter” were logged out. (aka OAuth) This is a necessary change as Twitter will no longer allow users to sign in to Twitter in any other way as…

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It’s the @Dabr stat attack!

Posted by James Whatley on April 19, 2010. 11 comments.

Recently, Twitter recently released some rather impressive stats about their users and their usage habits. Taking our lead from Ev and the gang, we thought we’d pull together some facts and figures of our own based on what we actually get through …

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Location sharing with @Dabr

Posted by David Carrington on April 16, 2010. 7 comments.

When we added the display of Geolocation recently, quite a few of you asked us when we were going to add the sharing of locations to Dabr. Well here it is! via flickr.com Starting today, a few compatible handsets will now get prompted to allow Dab…

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Dabr

Posted by James Whatley on March 24, 2010. 5 comments.

People have been very excited to see some new functionality in Dabr

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Dabr migration and Apache

Posted by David Carrington on March 17, 2010. No comments.

Some techy stuff about how I migrated Dabr to it’s new home last month, cross posted from one of my other blogs: After a recent purchase of VPS hosting from WebFusion, I wanted to move my high-traffic site dabr.co.uk onto it. With the site exceedi…

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Three quarters of the way

Posted by David Carrington on January 19, 2010. 3 comments.

724,359It’s a fairly big number, about three quarters of a million I’d say.Quite a nice number when that’s page views in one day on dabr.co.uk! Thank to the 25,000 visitors that came to the site on Sunday and decided to send out 135,000 tweets :)

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Dabr in Indonesia

Posted by David Carrington on January 18, 2010. 15 comments.

via flickr.com If you read my personal blog then you already know I’m a huge fan of Google Analytics – It really is the daddy. It tells me a lot of things about how people use my sites but it failed me in one way recently. It told me that there wa…

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